Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xix
List of Acronyms xx
Introduction: The Globalization of Education Policy – Key
Approaches and Debates 1
Karen Mundy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard, and Antoni Verger
Part I Education and a Global Polity 21
Introduction 22
Andy Green
1 Educational Policies in the Face of Globalization: Whither the
Nation State? 27
Martin Carnoy
2 World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy
43
Francisco O. Ramirez, John W. Meyer, and Julia Lerch
3 The Global Diffusion of Education Privatization: Unpacking and
Theorizing Policy Adoption 64
Antoni Verger
4 Economic Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Human
Capital 81
Eric A. Hanushek
5 Education, Poverty, and the “Missing Link”: The Limits of
Human Capital Theory as a Paradigm for Poverty Reduction 97
Xavier Bonal
6 Gender and Education in the Global Polity 111
Elaine Unterhalter
7 The Global Educational Reform Movement and Its Impact on
Schooling 128
Pasi Sahlberg
8 Global Convergence or Path Dependency? Skill Formation Regimes
in the Globalized Economy 145
Marius R. Busemeyer and Janis Vossiek
Part II Educational Issues and Challenges 163
Introduction 164
Bob Lingard
9 Education and Social Cohesion: A Panglossian Global Discourse
169
Andy Green and Jan Germen Janmaat
10 Policies for Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict
Reconstruction 189
Sarah Dryden-Peterson
11 Human Rights and Education Policy in South Asia 206
Monisha Bajaj and Huma Kidwai
12 Early Childhood Education and Care in Global Discourses
224
Rianne Mahon
13 Education for All 2000–2015: The Influence of Global
Interventions and Aid on EFA Achievements 241
Aaron Benavot, Manos Antoninis, Nicole Bella, Marcos Delprato,
Joanna Härmä, Catherine Jere, Priyadarshani Joshi, Nihan Koseleci
Blanchy, Helen Longlands, Alasdair McWilliam, and Asma Zubairi
14 The Politics of Language in Education in a Global Polity
259
M. Obaidul Hamid
15 The Global Governance of Teachers’ Work 275
Susan L. Robertson
16 The Global Construction of Higher Education Reform 291
Simon Marginson
Part III Global Policy Actors in Education 313
Introduction 314
Antoni Verger
17 The Historical Evolution and Current Challenges of the United
Nations and Global Education Policy-Making 319
Francine Menashy and Caroline Manion
18 The World Bank and the Global Governance of Education in a
Changing World Order 335
Karen Mundy and Antoni Verger
19 The Changing Organizational and Global Significance of the
OECD’s Education Work 357
Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar
20 The Policies that Shaped PISA, and the Policies that PISA
Shaped 374
Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido
21 Dragon and the Tiger Cubs: China–ASEAN Relations in Higher
Education 385
Rui Yang and Jingyun Yao
22 An Analysis of Power in Transnational Advocacy Networks in
Education 401
Ian Macpherson
23 The Business Case for Transnational Corporate Participation,
Profits, and Policy-Making in Education 419
Zahra Bhanji
24 New Global Philanthropy and Philanthropic Governance in
Education in a Post-2015 World 433
Prachi Srivastava and Lianna Baur
Part IV Critical Directions in the Study of Global Education Policy 449
Introduction 450
Karen Mundy
25 Rational Intentions and Unintended Consequences: On the
Interplay between International and National Actors in Education
Policy 453
Timm Fulge, Tonia Bieber, and Kerstin Martens
26 Policy and Administration as Culture: Organizational
Sociology and Cross-National Education Trends 470
Patricia Bromley
27 Ethnography and the Localization of Global Education Policy
490
Amy Stambach
28 Global Education Policy and the Postmodern Challenge 504
Stephen Carney
29 Policy Reponses to the Rise of Asian Higher Education: A
Postcolonial Analysis 519
Fazal Rizvi
30 Joined-up Policy: Network Connectivity and Global Education
Governance 535
Carolina Junemann, Stephen J. Ball, and Diego Santori
31 A Vertical Case Study of Global Policy-Making: Early Grade
Literacy in Zambia 554
Lesley Bartlett and Frances Vavrus
32 Global Indicators and Local Problem Recognition: An
Exploration into the Statistical Eradication of Teacher Shortage in
the Post-Socialist Region 573
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Name Index 590
Place Index 592
Subject Index 595
Karen Mundy is a Professor, Associate Dean of Research, and
Canada Research Chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education of the University of Toronto, where she directs the
Comparative, International and Development Education Centre
(CIDEC). Her research has focuses on the global politics of
“education for all” programs and policies, education reform in
sub-Saharan Africa, the role of civil society in the reform of
educational systems, and the policy influence of international
organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO and the WTO. A former
president of the Comparative International Education Society, Dr.
Mundy has published five books and more than four dozen articles
and book chapters, and is a contributor to dozens of policy papers
and reports.
Andy Green is Professor of Comparative Social Science at UCL
Institute of Education and Director of the ESRC Centre for Learning
and Life Chances. A frequent consultant to international bodies,
such as CEDEFOP, the European Commission, OECD and UNESCO, and to
the UK government departments, Dr. Green has published eighteen
books, including: Education, Globalization and the Nation State
(1997); Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of
Globalization (2014, with J.G. Janmaat) and Education and State
Formation: Europe, East Asia and the USA (2013). He was elected an
Academician of the UK Academy of Social Science in 2010.
Bob Lingard is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School
of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. A Fellow
of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and Editor of the
journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education,
Dr. Lingard has published twenty books, including most recently
Globalizing Educational Policy (2010) (with Fazal Rizvi), Politics,
Policies and Pedagogies in Education: The Selected Works of Bob
Lingard (2014) and Globalizing Educational Accountabilities (2015)
(with Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti and Sam Sellar). He has also
published more than one hundred journal articles and book chapters
in the sociology of education.
Antoni Verger is a Senior Researcher in the Department of
Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. A former
post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social
Science Research of the University of Amsterdam, Dr. Verger
research specializes on two main areas: the global governance of
education and education privatization policies. He has published
more than four dozen articles, book chapters and books on these
themes, including WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher
Education (Routledge, 2010), and Global Education Policy and
International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Programmes
(Bloosmbury, 2012).
"Chapter authors include some of the leading figures in the field
of educational policy research: Stephen Ball, Aaron Benavot, Xavier
Bonal, Martin Carnoy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard, Caroline Manion,
Simon Marginson, Karen Mundy, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Robertson and
Antoni Verger, to name just a selection, are household names in the
area. There are also less known but equally important contributors,
rendering this compendium a ‘who’s who’ of educational policy and
comparative education research."
Peter Mayo - University of Malta, ©Copyright 2019 Mayo
Source: London Review of Education, Volume 17, Number 1, March
2019, pp.90-92(3)
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