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School privatisation in Taiwan from 1970 to 2024 occurred in three distinct waves—state-led expansion, democratic deregulation, and the collision of population decline with experimental schooling—each driven by specific temporal narratives that shaped the reforms' organization and governing effects. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how multiple temporalities and narrative constructions of time interact with governing rationalities to steer schooling privatisation policies from 1970 to 2024.

September 2, 2026Journal of Education PolicyOpen Access

Governing through time: examining the multiple temporalities of school privatisation in Taiwan

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WLWarangkana LinColumbia University RXRen-Hao XuThe University of Western Australia

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Policy analysis uncovers how temporal narratives enabled three distinct privatisation waves in Taiwanese education, indicating that manipulated timelines shape reform governance.

Key Points

To examine how multiple temporalities and narrative constructions of time interact with governing rationalities to steer schooling privatisation policies from 1970 to 2024.
Analyzed 230 education policy documents spanning 1970 to 2024 in Taiwan using Steiner-Khamsi’s analytical framework.
Tracked temporal elements including timing, sequence, tempo, and past–present–future narrative constructions across shifting governing rationalities.
Identified three distinct waves of privatisation: state-led expansion, democratic deregulation, and the intersection of demographic decline with experimental schooling.
Showed that each reform wave leveraged distinct discursive formations that tied immediate emergencies to envisioned futures, modulating policy adoption through competing temporalities.

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Lin et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2d9c562ede874ec73af https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2026.2724917

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September 2, 2026Journal of Education PolicyOpen Access

Governing through time: examining the multiple temporalities of school privatisation in Taiwan

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WLWarangkana LinColumbia University RXRen-Hao XuThe University of Western Australia

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Overview

Policy analysis uncovers how temporal narratives enabled three distinct privatisation waves in Taiwanese education, indicating that manipulated timelines shape reform governance.

Key Points

To examine how multiple temporalities and narrative constructions of time interact with governing rationalities to steer schooling privatisation policies from 1970 to 2024.
Analyzed 230 education policy documents spanning 1970 to 2024 in Taiwan using Steiner-Khamsi’s analytical framework.
Tracked temporal elements including timing, sequence, tempo, and past–present–future narrative constructions across shifting governing rationalities.
Identified three distinct waves of privatisation: state-led expansion, democratic deregulation, and the intersection of demographic decline with experimental schooling.
Showed that each reform wave leveraged distinct discursive formations that tied immediate emergencies to envisioned futures, modulating policy adoption through competing temporalities.

Cite This Study

Lin et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2d9c562ede874ec73af https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2026.2724917

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