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  • Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media

    The Politics of Mediatisation

    Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.In its thorough exploration of the uses and effects of newspapers and Twitter in education policy, the book provides a detailed, research-based account of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Global-National Networks in Education Policy

    Primary Education, Social Enterprises and ‘Teach for Bangladesh’

    Series series New Directions in Comparative and International Education
    Set against the backdrop of globalization and global philanthropy, this book offers new perspectives on the sociological dynamics and governance implications of 'social entrepreneurial' policy in education. It examines the spatialities, relationships and culture that powerfully mediated the making and localisation of 'Teach for Bangladesh'.This globalised and philanthropy-backed reform model is ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Globalization and Education

    This book brings together leading scholars in Global Studies in Education to reflect on how various developments of historic significance have unsettled the neoliberal imaginary of globalization. The developments include greater recognition of inequalities and the changing nature of work and communication; the emergence of new technologies of governance; a greater awareness of geopolitical shifts; ... Read more

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  • Teachers and Schooling Making A Difference

    Productive pedagogies, assessment and performance

    Teachers + Schooling Making a Difference takes seriously the question that teachers ask, 'What do I do on Monday?' and does provide answers.'From the foreword by Professor Michael Apple, University of WisconsinEducation debates are currently dominated by free-market ideologists who push privatisation and competition as the answer to every problem, regardless of damage to schools and pupils. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Globalisation and Education

    Edited by Bob Lingard ...
    Series series Education and Social Theory
    This collection focuses on education policy in the context of globalisation and draws together influential research dealing with the interplay between education policy and globalisation. Globalisation and neo-liberalism in relation to education policy are addressed, as is the impact of the global financial crisis, the recent rise of ethno-nationalism and progressive challenges to neo-liberal ... Read more

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  • Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

    Local, National and Transnational Perspectives

    Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Education Policy

    Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing on globalisation this book stands out and will become a basic text in education policy courses ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education

    The selected works of Bob Lingard

    by Bob Lingard ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Globalizing Educational Accountabilities

    Series series Education in Global Context
    Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in schooling systems around the world. Tracing the evolution of those regimes, with an emphasis on the OECD’s PISA, it reveals the multiple effects of policy as numbers in countries with different types of government and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • National Testing in Schools

    An Australian assessment

    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:media responses and constructions such as league tables of performancepressures within ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Testing Regimes, Accountabilities and Education Policy

    Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula. There has also been a complementary global aspect to this with the OECD’s PISA and IEA’s TIMSS and PIRLS, which have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Handbook of Global Education Policy

    Series series Handbooks of Global Policy
    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.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 reformIncludes contributions ... Read more

    $166.00 USD