World as a Laboratory

Sotiria Grek is Professor of European and Global Education Governance at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Sotiria’s work focuses on the field of quantification in global public policy, with a specialisation in the policy arenas of education and sustainable development.Joakim Landahl is Professor of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden where he leads the research group ‘History of education and sociology of education'. His current research is centered on the history of international comparisons of education, the history of educational research, and the role school student activism.  Martin Lawn is Honorary Professor, at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the Founding Editor of the European Educational Research Journal. Martin is researching the postwar Americanization of European educational research.Christian Lundahl is Professor of education at Örebro University, Sweden. Lundahl is specialized in the history of assessments, evaluation, and of educational research.

• Chapter 1: Organising the Future of Educational Research in Post-war Europe and Beyond.- Chapter 2: Forming Transnational Networks: The Early 1950s in Europe.- Chapter 3: Collecting International Data: Husén and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.- Chapter 4: The Rise of a Global Expert Network: The International Institute for Educational Planning, 1963–1973.- Chapter 5: Education Futuramas: Torsten Husén and Futurological Thinking in Education.- Chapter 6: Editing the International Encyclopedia of Education, 1980–1994.- Chapter 7: Words for the World: Writing and Publishing Strategies for an International Book Market.