E-grāmata: Rise of Knowledge Brokers in Global Education Governance

This timely book insightfully explores the intersections between science and policy following the knowledge turn in global education governance. The book not only draws attention to the relationship between knowledge and expertise, but shows the ways in which brokering itself involves the complicated art of influence. -- Susan Robertson, University of Cambridge, UK This 10-chapter edited book examines the rise of knowledge brokers in global education governance within a two-community framework of science and politics. It offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to understand the complex interplay between science and politics in the field of international cooperation in education policy. It is an immensely useful resource for comparative and international education studies and for interrogating the nexus between politics and evidence. -- Moses Oketch, University College London, UK Chanwoong Baek and Gita Steiner-Khamsi have assembled a set of scholars who illuminate the differing definitions and models of knowledge brokering, with particular attention to international organizations such as OECD and the World Bank. This book is essential reading for understanding the political origins of education policy, planning, and implementation on the world stage. -- Aaron Pallas, Columbia University, US The notion that in the formulation and enactment of education policy and governance a range of new knowledge brokers emerged, beyond the traditional producers of knowledge, is now widely recognized. What is less well understood however is how and why has their influence grown so rapidly, and with what consequences. The essays in this important and timely book interrogate these questions in ways that are empirically grounded and analytically astute. They also examine how the various knowledge brokers, both traditional and emerging, collaborate and compete, and how their emergence has created a complicated and highly contested space of knowledge production in education, giving rise a range of important issues that policy makers and researchers can ill afford to overlook. -- Fazal Rizvi, The University of Melbourne, Australia and The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US