Global Education Policy and International Development

Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this comprehensive introduction surveys the impact of global education policies on local policy in developing countries. With chapters written by leading international scholars in the field, drawing on a full range of theoretical perspectives and offering a diverse selection of case studies, this new edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect changing policy debates and issues whilst maintaining the theoretical and intellectual coherence of the first edition. This second edition of Global Education Policy and International Development includes: - Seven entirely new chapters on the emerging debates in the field, including large-scale assessments, quality of teaching and education in emergencies - Contributions from the leading scholars in the field, such as Stephen J. Ball, Roger Dale, Susan Robertson, Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Elaine Unterhalter - Supportive pedagogical features such as chapter outlines, questions for discussion, key reading recommendations and boxed case studies and vignettes - Updated case studies from a variety of countries in the Global South From students of education, development and globalization to practitioners working in developing contexts, Global Education Policy and International Development is an essential textbook for those seeking to understand how global forces and local realities meet to shape education policy in the developing world.

Antoni Verger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Mario Novelli is Director of the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex, UK. Hülya Kosar Altinyelken is Assistant Professor at the Child Development and Education Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Global Education Policy and International Development: A Revisited Introduction, Antoni Verger (Universitat Autonoma, Spain), Mario Novelli (University of Sussex, UK) and Hülya Kosar Altinyelken (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 2. Researching Global Education Policy: Angles In/On/Out... Susan L. Robertson (University of Bristol, UK) 3. Education Policy Networks and Spaces of 'Meetingness': A Network Ethnography of a Brazilian Seminar, Marina Avelar, Dimitra Pavlina Nikita and Stephen J. Ball (UCL Institute of Education, UK) 4. Silences, Stereotypes and Local Selection: Negotiating Policy and Practice to Implement the MDGs and EFA, Elaine Unterhalter (UCL Institute of Education, UK) 5. Why Do Countries Participate in PISA? Understanding the Role of International Large-Scale Assessments in Global Education Policy, Camilla Addey (Humboldt University, Germany) and Sam Sellar (University of Queensland, Australia) 6. School- and Community-based Management as Global Education Policy: History, Trajectory, Geography, D. Brent Edwards Jr. (Drexler University, USA) 7. Conditional Cash Transfers in Education for Development: Emergence, Policy Dilemmas and Diversity of Impacts, Xavier Bonal (Universitat Autonoma, Spain), Aina Tarabini (Universitat Autonoma, Spain) and Xavier Rambla (Universitat Autonoma, Spain) 8. Global Policies, Local Meanings: The Re-Contextualization of Competency-Based Education Reforms in Mexico, Rosanne Tromp (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9. The 2030 Global Education Agenda and the SDGs: Process, Policy and Prospects, Yusuf Sayed (Cape Peninsula University Technology, South Africa), Rashid Ahmed (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) with Rada Mogliacci (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa) 10. A Converging Pedagogy in the Global South: Insights from Uganda and Turkey,Hülya Kosar Altinyelken (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 11. Education in Emergencies: Tracing the Emergence of a Field, Mario Novelli (University of Sussex, UK) and Mieke Lopes Cardozo (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 12. Constructing Low-Fee Private Schools as an Educational Model for the Global South: From Local Origins to Transnational Dynamics, Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrian Zancajo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) 13. Measuring and Interpreting Re-Contextualization: A Commentary, Gita Steiner-Khamsi (University of Columbia, USA) 14. Global Education Policy: Creating Different Constituencies of Interest and Different Modes of Valorisation, Roger Dale (University of Bristol, UK) Bibliography Index