Handbook of Global Education Policy.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: The Globalization of Education Policy - Key Approaches and Debates -- Antecedents to Today's Global Education Policy -- Globalization and the Take-Off of Global Education Policy After 1975 -- New Approaches to the Study of Education Policy -- Convergence, Divergence, Coercion - Borrowing or Learning? -- Key Actors and Debated Issues in Global Education Policy -- Overview of the Volume -- References -- Part I: Education and a Global Polity -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Educational Policies in the Face of Globalization -- The National State, Globalization, and the Expansion of Education -- Ideological Convergence -- Ideological Convergence or Changes in Reproducing State Legitimacy? -- National States, Global Convergence, and the Shape of Educational Change -- References -- Chapter 2: World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy -- Talk and Action at the National Level -- Global Structure and Discourse -- Impact: Global Educational Policies -- The Global Educational Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Global Diffusion of Education Privatization -- Introduction -- The Multiple Faces of Privatization -- Main Approaches to Policy Diffusion -- The Politics and Semiotics of Policy Adoption -- Conclusion: The Politics and Semiotics of Policy Adoption -- References -- Chapter 4: Economic Growth in Developing Countries -- The Measurement of Human Capital in Economic Growth -- Improvement in School Attainment of Developing Countries -- Better Measures of the Human Capital Deficit in Developing Countries -- Varying Human Capital Approaches for Developing Countries -- Issues of Causation -- Some Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5: Education, Poverty, and the "Missing Link".

Introduction -- A Brief Critical History of Human Capital Theory as a Paradigm of Educational Development -- The Hegemony of the Microeconomic Version of Human Capital -- Failing to Explain the Poor's Educational Demand -- Fighting Poverty by Ignoring Inequality? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Gender and Education in the Global Polity -- Defining Gender Equity in Education -- A History of Consensus Building -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Global Educational Reform Movement and Its Impact on Schooling -- Globalization and School Reforms -- The Origin Of Global Educational Reform Agenda -- The Global Educational Reform Movement -- Impacts of GERM on Education Systems -- What Does the Evidence Suggest? -- References -- Chapter 8: Global Convergence or Path Dependency? Skill Formation Regimes in the Globalized Economy -- Introduction -- Institutional Path Dependencies and the Limits of Global Convergence -- The Variety of Skill Formation Regimes in Post-Industrial Democracies -- Two Case Studies: Germany and the UK -- Conclusions: Stability and Change in Skill Formation Regimes -- References -- Part II: Educational Issues and Challenges -- Part II: Introduction -- Chapter 9: Education and Social Cohesion -- Introduction -- Education and Social Trust - Multiple Effects -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Policies for Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction -- Introduction -- Defining Conflict -- The Nature and Causes of Conflict -- Phases of Conflict -- The Rise of a Field of Policy -- Current Policy Approaches to Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction -- Ways Forward: Resolving Tensions -- References -- Chapter 11: Human Rights and Education Policy in South Asia -- Introduction -- The Rise of Rights Talk in Global Education Policy -- Educational Development in South Asia.

Transnational Advocacy Networks in Education -- Educational Rights Amidst Social and Political Conflict -- Localizing Educational Discourses in Small South Asian nations -- Horizontal Dimensions of Rights-Based Educational Policies in South Asia -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 12: Early Childhood Education and Care in Global Discourses -- ECEC as a Traveling Idea -- From Structural Adjustment to Investing in Children: The World Bank -- ECEC for OECD Countries: Gender Equality … and Children's Rights -- UNESCO: ECEC as a Critical Component of "Education for All" -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: Education for All 2000-2015 -- The Education for All Agenda and its Implementation -- Taking Stock of Progress Toward EFA -- International Aid for EFA -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: The Politics of Language in Education in a Global Polity -- Introduction -- "Political" in the Politics of Language -- Discourses of Language -- Languages in a Global Polity -- Discussion: Neo-liberal and Discursive Politics -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 15: The Global Governance of Teachers' Work -- Introduction -- Governing -- Global Governance -- The "Thin" Global Governance of Teachers' Work -- Teachers and the Race to the Top -- Thickening Global Governance of Teachers' Work -- The Education GPS -- From Thin to Thickening Global Governance of Teachers' Work -- References -- Chapter 16: The Global Construction of Higher Education Reform -- Introduction -- Common Trends in Worldwide Higher Education -- Tendency to High Participation Systems (HPSs) -- The Expanding One-World Science System -- National/Regional Diversity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Global Policy Actors in Education -- Part III: Introduction.

Chapter 17: The Historical Evolution and Current Challenges of the United Nations and Global Education Policy-Making -- A Historical and Sociological Institutional Framework for the Analysis of Legitimacy -- UNESCO as a Global Education Policy Actor and the Struggles of Legitimacy -- UNICEF as a Global Education Policy Actor and the Formation of Legitimacy -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: The World Bank and the Global Governance of Education in a Changing World Order -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- The World Bank and Education: Origins of a Mandate -- Structural Adjustment and Basic Education: Surprising Bedfellows and a New Economic Argument -- The Bank and the Global Development Consensus (1996-2008) -- After Wolfensohn and the Global Financial Crisis: Bank Hegemony Challenged? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 19: The Changing Organizational and Global Significance of the OECD's Education Work -- Introduction -- A Brief History and Overview of the OECD -- The Changing Place of Education at the OECD: PISA and the Directorate for Education -- PISA: Expanding the Scope, Scale and Explanatory Power -- The OECD's Education Work and Global Educational Governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20: The Policies that Shaped PISA, and the Policies that PISA Shaped -- In the Dark, All Schools and Education Systems Look the Same -- The Design and Impact of PISA -- Seeing what is Possible in Education -- Putting National Targets into a Broader Perspective -- Assessing the Pace of Change in Educational Improvement -- A Tool for the Political Economy of Reform -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 21: Dragon and the Tiger Cubs -- Introduction -- East and South East Asian Regionalism under Substantial Chinese Influence -- Higher Education Integration in East and South East Asia.

China-ASEAN Relations in Higher Education -- The Case of Guizhou -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Chapter 22: An Analysis of Power in Transnational Advocacy Networks in Education -- Introduction -- Orienting Theoretical Frameworks -- Civil Society and Education -- Two Transnational Advocacy Networks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 23: The Business Case for Transnational Corporate Participation, Profits, and Policy-Making in Education -- "Market Multilateralism," Forums, and Coalitions Facilitating Corporate Social Engagement in Education -- Reports, Frameworks, and Business Coalitions -- Global Corporate Social Engagement -- Private Foundations -- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) -- Discussion: Corporate Global Governors and Education Policy-Making -- References -- Chapter 24: New Global Philanthropy and Philanthropic Governance in Education in a Post-2015 World -- Introduction -- Philanthropic Engagement in the New Moment of the Politics of Education -- New Global Philanthropy in Education and Philanthropic Governance in Education -- References -- Part IV: Critical Directions in the Study of Global Education Policy -- Part IV: Introduction -- Chapter 25: Rational Intentions and Unintended Consequences -- Theoretical Considerations -- The OECD as a Shaper of Secondary Education Policies -- The Bologna Process and Reforms in Higher Education -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 26: Policy and Administration as Culture -- The Neo-institutional Approach -- Understanding Trends in Global Education Policy and Administration -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 27: Ethnography and the Localization of Global Education Policy -- Ethnography: From Case-in-Point to Contexts and Connections -- Ethnographic Accounts -- Analysis -- Ethnography as Argument and Artifact -- References.

Chapter 28: Global Education Policy and the Postmodern Challenge.

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