摘要：In the Spring 1999 issue, CICE presents comparative international perspectives on the effects of market forces on education systems, administration and pedagogy. To frame the debate, we consider various concepts of the market. Do school choice and voucher programs function like free markets, with an invisible hand ensuring a socially just regulatory system. Are curricula and pedagogy just so many goods on a supermarket shelf. Or, could the enterprise of schooling resemble a global flea marketwhere autonomous individuals interact unencumbered by institutional structures. Without implying that the marketization of schooling is a fait accompli, CICE submits that a profound discursive shift in educational debates has made the metaphor of the market a significant conceptual lens for viewing education. With this issue, it is our hope to shed light on these shifts and bring an international and comparative perspective to the debate
