Handbook of Global Education Policy

Karen Mundy 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.Andy Green 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.Bob Lingard 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 Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Dr. Lingard has published twenty books, including most recently Globalizing Educational Policy (2010) (with Fazal Rizvi), Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education: The Selected Works of Bob Lingard (2014) and Globalizing Educational Accountabilities (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.Antoni Verger 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 WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education (Routledge, 2010), and Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Programmes (Bloosmbury, 2012).

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgements xixList of Acronyms xxIntroduction: The Globalization of Education Policy – Key Approaches and Debates 1Karen Mundy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard, and Antoni VergerPart I Education and a Global Polity 21Introduction 22Andy Green1 Educational Policies in the Face of Globalization: Whither the Nation State? 27Martin Carnoy2 World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy 43Francisco O. Ramirez, John W. Meyer, and Julia Lerch3 The Global Diffusion of Education Privatization: Unpacking and Theorizing Policy Adoption 64Antoni Verger4 Economic Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Human Capital 81Eric A. Hanushek5 Education, Poverty, and the “Missing Link”: The Limits of Human Capital Theory as a Paradigm for Poverty Reduction 97Xavier Bonal6 Gender and Education in the Global Polity 111Elaine Unterhalter7 The Global Educational Reform Movement and Its Impact on Schooling 128Pasi Sahlberg8 Global Convergence or Path Dependency? Skill Formation Regimes in the Globalized Economy 145Marius R. Busemeyer and Janis VossiekPart II Educational Issues and Challenges 163Introduction 164Bob Lingard9 Education and Social Cohesion: A Panglossian Global Discourse 169Andy Green and Jan Germen Janmaat10 Policies for Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction 189Sarah Dryden-Peterson11 Human Rights and Education Policy in South Asia 206Monisha Bajaj and Huma Kidwai12 Early Childhood Education and Care in Global Discourses 224Rianne Mahon13 Education for All 2000–2015: The Influence of Global Interventions and Aid on EFA Achievements 241Aaron Benavot, Manos Antoninis, Nicole Bella, Marcos Delprato, Joanna Härmä, Catherine Jere, Priyadarshani Joshi, Nihan Koseleci Blanchy, Helen Longlands, Alasdair McWilliam, and Asma Zubairi14 The Politics of Language in Education in a Global Polity 259M. Obaidul Hamid15 The Global Governance of Teachers’ Work 275Susan L. Robertson16 The Global Construction of Higher Education Reform 291Simon MarginsonPart III Global Policy Actors in Education 313Introduction 314Antoni Verger17 The Historical Evolution and Current Challenges of the United Nations and Global Education Policy-Making 319Francine Menashy and Caroline Manion18 The World Bank and the Global Governance of Education in a Changing World Order 335Karen Mundy and Antoni Verger19 The Changing Organizational and Global Significance of the OECD’s Education Work 357Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar20 The Policies that Shaped PISA, and the Policies that PISA Shaped 374Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido21 Dragon and the Tiger Cubs: China–ASEAN Relations in Higher Education 385Rui Yang and Jingyun Yao22 An Analysis of Power in Transnational Advocacy Networks in Education 401Ian Macpherson23 The Business Case for Transnational Corporate Participation, Profits, and Policy-Making in Education 419Zahra Bhanji24 New Global Philanthropy and Philanthropic Governance in Education in a Post-2015 World 433Prachi Srivastava and Lianna BaurPart IV Critical Directions in the Study of Global Education Policy 449Introduction 450Karen Mundy25 Rational Intentions and Unintended Consequences: On the Interplay between International and National Actors in Education Policy 453Timm Fulge, Tonia Bieber, and Kerstin Martens26 Policy and Administration as Culture: Organizational Sociology and Cross-National Education Trends 470Patricia Bromley27 Ethnography and the Localization of Global Education Policy 490Amy Stambach28 Global Education Policy and the Postmodern Challenge 504Stephen Carney29 Policy Reponses to the Rise of Asian Higher Education: A Postcolonial Analysis 519Fazal Rizvi30 Joined-up Policy: Network Connectivity and Global Education Governance 535Carolina Junemann, Stephen J. Ball, and Diego Santori31 A Vertical Case Study of Global Policy-Making: Early Grade Literacy in Zambia 554Lesley Bartlett and Frances Vavrus32 Global Indicators and Local Problem Recognition: An Exploration into the Statistical Eradication of Teacher Shortage in the Post-Socialist Region 573Gita Steiner-KhamsiName Index 590Place Index 592Subject Index 595

"Chapter authors include some of the leading figures in the field of educational policy research: Stephen Ball, Aaron Benavot, Xavier Bonal, Martin Carnoy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard, Caroline Manion, Simon Marginson, Karen Mundy, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Robertson and Antoni Verger, to name just a selection, are household names in the area. There are also less known but equally important contributors, rendering this compendium a ‘who’s who’ of educational policy and comparative education research."Peter Mayo - University of Malta, ©Copyright 2019 MayoSource: London Review of Education, Volume 17, Number 1, March 2019, pp.90-92(3)