The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a result of globalization. But also the fact that policy makers increasingly import "best practices "and international standards and use them as a tool to accelerate reform has captured the imagination of many that deal with policy studies. An international comparative perspective is key for understanding why reforms travel from one corner of the world to another. Not surprisingly, the study of policy borrowing and lending constitutes one of the core research topics of comparative policy studies; a new area of research that links comparative education with policy studies.
The World Yearbook of Education 2012 brings together a diverse range of perspectives on education policy through contributions from internationally renowned authors. It reflects on the way policy borrowing and lending is reconfiguring the world of education and offers a new collection of insights into the changes occurring across the world. It particularly focuses on:
The political and economic reasons for policy borrowing,
The agencies, international networks and regimes that instigate policy change,
The process of borrowing and lending
The impact of these systems, agendas and institutions on indigenous settings.
This book will prove invaluable to researchers of globalization and to policy experts, especially those interested in comparative and international educational studies. It is also essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and anyone involved in the sociology, economy or history of education.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College Columbia University, New York, US.
Florian Waldow is Research Director at the University of Münster, Germany.
Recenzijas
'The 2012 World Yearbook of Education is a must-read, not only for scholars interested in global education policy, but also for anyone who wants to understand the scope and nature of educational change in the global era.' Antoni Verger, Comparative Education Review, 2013.
'The book offers a comprehensive, insightful, and nuanced examination of education policy transformation in the global era and highlights the complexity of political, economic, and social contexts within which educational changes currently take place.' Antoni Verger, Comparative Education Review, 2013.
Part I: Reasons
1. Politics of Policy Borrowing
2. Economics of Policy
Borrowing
3. Harmonization, Fabricating an Educational Space and the Concept
of Reference Societies
4. Cross-National Policy Attraction, Emulation,
Lesson-Drawing Part II: Agencies
5. Non-State Actors, Theory of the
Post-Bureaucratic State
6. International Networks
7. Transnational Regimes:
OECD, World Bank
8. South-South or East-East Cooperation Part III: Processes
9. Diffusion of Beliefs and Standards and Practices Themselves
10. Policy
Learning by Means of Advocacy Coalitions
11. Agenda Setting in Evidence-Based
Policy Planning
12. Agenda Setting
13. Reception, Projection Part IV: Impact
14. Convergence, Isomorphism
15. Differentiation between First-Order,
Second-Order and Third-Order Change
16. Impact on Existing Practices
17.
Translation, Interpretation, Local Adaptation, Indigenization
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Florian Waldow is Research Director at the University of Münster, Germany.
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