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Handbook of Global Education Policy


Handbook of Global Education Policy


Handbooks of Global Policy 1. Aufl.

von: Karen Mundy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard, Antoni Verger

142,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 29.02.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781118468036
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 630

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This innovative new handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors.<br /> <ul> <li>Surveys current debates about the role of education in a global polity, highlights key transnational policy actors, accessibly introduces research methodologies, and outlines global agendas for education reform</li> <li>Includes contributions from an international cast of established and emerging scholars at the forefront of the field thoughtfully edited and organized by a team of world-renowned global education policy experts</li> <li>Each section features a thorough introduction designed to facilitate readers’ understanding of the subsequent material and highlight links to interdisciplinary global policy scholarship</li> <li>Written in an accessible and engaging style that will appeal to domestic and international policy practitioners, social scientists, and education scholars alike</li> </ul>
<b>Karen Mundy</b> 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.<br /><br /><b>Andy Green </b>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.<br /><br /><b>Bob Lingard</b> 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 <i>Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education</i>, Dr. Lingard has published twenty books, including most recently <i>Globalizing Educational Policy</i> (2010) (with Fazal Rizvi), <i>Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education: The Selected Works of Bob Lingard</i> (2014) and <i>Globalizing Educational Accountabilities</i> (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.<br /><br /><b>Antoni Verger</b> 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 <i>WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education</i> (Routledge, 2010), and <i>Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Programmes</i> (Bloosmbury, 2012).
<p>Over the past decade, the influence of global institutions and actors on domestic education policy has increased significantly. With contributions from an international cast of established and emerging scholars at the forefront of the field, <i>The Handbook of Global Policy in Education </i>provides a comprehensive and provocative overview of current research on the interplay between global policy and education. The handbook has been strategically divided into four thematic sections each featuring a thorough introduction designed to both facilitate readers’ understanding of the topic and to highlight broader links to interdisciplinary global policy scholarship. The first section offers a comprehensive survey of current debates surrounding the role of education in global polity, while the second section highlights key transnational policy actors. The third section focuses on introducing and elucidating research methodologies, while the fourth section outlines global agendas for education reform.</p> Written in an accessible and engaging style, <i>The Handbook of Global Policy in Education</i> will be a vital resource for education scholars, social scientists, and domestic and international policy practitioners alike.

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