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The Global Education Policy Field: Theorization and Problematization book cover

1st Edition

The Global Education Policy Field Theorization and Problematization

Edited By D. Brent Edwards Jr Copyright 2026
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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This book challenges conventional approaches to global education policy (GEP) by exploring its often-overlooked onto-epistemic and religio-spiritual dimensions. Through eight thought-provoking chapters, leading scholars critically examine how fundamental questions of knowing, being, and worldview shape the field's theoretical foundations and practical implications. The contributors delve deep... Read more

1. The global education policy field: theorization and problematization

D. Brent Edwards Jr

 

2. The racial grammar of development: a critical narrative inquiry of Vietnam’s educational exchange program with Mozambique

Hang M. Le

 

3. Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field

Christopher Kirchgasler

 

4. Unthinking critique: when will ‘critical’ global education policy scholarship emerge from Marx’s shadow?

Jeremy Rappleye

 

5. Christian normativity in global higher education policy and practice

Sachi Edwards

 

6. Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy

D. Brent Edwards Jr.

 

7. Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resource: self-reflective inquiry into the onto-epistemic foundations of global education policy research

Oshie Nishimura-Sahi

 

8. An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism

Keita Takayama

 

9. Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves

Phan Le Ha

 

Biography

D. Brent Edwards Jr is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaii. His work focuses on the global governance of education and global education policies from critical and decolonial perspectives.

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