Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies

by Antoni Verger (Editor), Hulya K. Altinyelken (Editor), Mario Novelli (Editor)

Overview

Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this comprehensive introduction surveys the impact of global education policies on local policy in developing countries. With chapters written by leading international scholars in the field, drawing on a full range of theoretical perspectives and offering a diverse selection of case studies, this new edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect changing policy debates and issues whilst maintaining the theoretical and intellectual coherence of the first edition. This second edition of Global Education Policy and International Development includes:

- Seven entirely new chapters on the emerging debates in the field, including large-scale assessments, quality of teaching and education in emergencies
- Contributions from the leading scholars in the field, such as Stephen J. Ball, Roger Dale, Susan Robertson, Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Elaine Unterhalter
- Supportive pedagogical features such as chapter outlines, questions for discussion, key reading recommendations and boxed case studies and vignettes
- Updated case studies from a variety of countries in the Global South
- Online resources, including additional case studies and links to relevant policy documents and video content

From students of education, development and globalization to practitioners working in developing contexts, Global Education Policy and International Development is an essential textbook for those seeking to understand how global forces and local realities meet to shape education policy in the developing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474296021
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/25/2018
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Antoni Verger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Mario Novelli is Director of the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex, UK.

Hülya Kosar Altinyelken is Assistant Professor at the Child Development and Education Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Insights
1. Global Education Policy and International Development: An Introductory Framework, Antoni Verger (Universitat Autonoma, Spain), Mario Novelli (University of Sussex, UK) and Hülya Kosar Altinyelken (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2. Researching Global Education Policy: Angles In/On/Out... Susan L. Robertson (University of Bristol, UK)
3. New Forms of Governance in Education Policy Making: Spaces of 'meetingness' in Policy Networks from England and Brazil, Stephen J. Ball, Marina Avelar and Dimitra Pavlina Nikita (UCL Institute of Education, UK)
Part II: Global Education Policy: Case Studies
4. Silences, Stereotypes and Local Selection: Negotiating Policy and Practice to Implement the MDGs and EFA, Elaine Unterhalter (UCL Institute of Education, UK)
5. International Large-Scale Assessments in Lower and Middle Income Countries: Rationales for Participation and Changing Policy Processes, Camilla Addey (Humboldt University, Germany) and Sam Sellar (University of Queensland, Australia)
6. School- and Community-based Management as Global Education Policy: History, Trajectory, Geography, D. Brent Edwards Jr. (Drexler University, USA)
7. Conditional Cash Transfers in Education for Development: Emergence, Policy Dilemmas and Diversity of Impacts, Xavier Bonal (Universitat Autonoma, Spain), Aina Tarabini (Universitat Autonoma, Spain) and Xavier Rambla (Universitat Autonoma, Spain)
8. Teachers and the 2030 Global Education Agenda: Ensuring Equality and Quality Education, Yusuf Sayed (Cape Peninsula University Technology, South Africa)
9. Adopting the Dual Policy Model of Technical and Vocational Education and Training: The Case of Mexico, Oscar Valiente (University of Glasgow, UK)
10. A Converging Pedagogy in the Developing World: Insights from Uganda and Turkey, Hülya Kosar Altinyelken (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
11. Education in Emergencies in a Globalising World: Emergence of a Field, Mario Novelli (University of Sussex, UK) and Mieke Lopes Cardozo (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
12. Privatization 'by Default': Low-Fee Private Schools in Low-Income Countries, Antoni Verger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Part III: Conclusions
13. Measuring and Interpreting Re-Contextualization: A Commentary, Gita Steiner-Khamsi (University of Columbia, USA)
14. Global Education Policy: Creating Different Constituencies of Interest and Different Modes of Valorisation, Roger Dale (University of Bristol, UK)
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

[The book] has, in my view, the rare quality of being both useful as a foundational theoretical analysis on the field of global education policy while at the same time providing clear insights into how the phenomena studied are having direct, real world consequences on education practice in general; from curricular practice to financing and the role of civil society and a variety of supranational stakeholders not previously characterized at this level of detail.
Education Review (of the first edition)

Provides fundamental insights into the central issues that need to be considered by scholars, policy makers, and practitioners working in the intersecting fields of education and international development.
Harvard Education Review (of the first edition)

While a core concern of this collection is the ongoing theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of policy borrowing and transfer, the book offers crucial insights for any practitioners or researchers involved with education or international development (...) The book is an important addition to the reading lists of Masters programmes for both international development and education studies, and can offer a much-needed cross-cultural perspective to otherwise Western-focused courses.
Educational Management Administration & Leadership (of the first edition)

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