Time in Education Policy Transfer

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, and the Honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She published fourteen books (two monographs, twelve edited volumes) and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on policy transfer/policy borrowing, school reform research, qualitative comparative policy studies, and global governance. She is co-editor of the Qualitative Comparative Policy Studies section of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Past President of the (US) Comparative and International Education Society, and former series editor of the World Yearbook of Education (Routledge).

• Part I The Study of Policy Transfer in Education.- 1. Traveling Reforms from a Comparative, Transnational, and Global Perspectives.- 2. Encounters with the Global Reform.- Part II Time in Policy Transfer.- 3. The Evolution of a Global Script: The Present, Future, and Sequence of Reforms.- 4. Reception and Translation into the Local Context: The Timing, Lifespan, and Age of Reforms.- 5. On the Global/Local Nexus and the Late Adopter/Early Adopter Interaction: The Tempo of Diffusion.- Part III Analyzing Time: Implications for Theory and Practice.- 6. Conclusions.