1st Edition

The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics

Edited By Bob Lingard, Jenny Ozga Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This Reader brings together selected papers from leading scholars to address the most significant recent development in educational policy and politics: the impact of globalisation.  The papers discuss, document and analyse evidence of globalisation’s effects on the new direction of education policies and practices, and in the production of globalised agendas for the redesign of state... Read more

Section 1: The Global Framing of Education Policy and Politics  1. Postmodernity and Revisioning the Political  2. Debating Globalisation and Education after September 11th  3. Big Policies, Small World: An Introduction to International Perspectives in Education Policy  4. Specifying Globalization Effects on National Policy: A Focus on the Mechanisms  5. Governing Education: Educational Politics and Policy  Section 2: Vernacular Politics, Policies and Processes  6. After the Marketplace: Evidence, Social Science and Educational Research  7.  Globalization and Educational Policy-making: A Case Study  8. Swedish, European, Global: The Transformation of the Swedish Welfare State  9.  National and Global Competition in Higher Education  10. Education, Nation States and the Globalisation of Information Networks  11. Unravelling a ‘Spun’ Policy: A Case Study of the Constitutive Role of ‘Spin’ in the Education Policy Process  12. Public Accountability in the Age of Neo-Liberal Governance  13. Realising Policy: The Who and How of Policy Production  14. Politics of Social Partnerships: A Framework for Theorizing  15. Bourdieu as Education Policy Analyst and Expert: A Rich but Ambigious Legacy

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Bob Lingard, Jenny Ozga