World Yearbook of Education 2012

This edited volume aims to bring together contributions from internationally recognised authors that analyse and reflect on the way policy borrowing and lending is configuring and reconfiguring the world of education.

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Florian Waldow is Research Director at the University of Münster, Germany.

Part I: Reasons 1. Politics of Policy Borrowing 2. Economics of Policy Borrowing 3. Harmonization, Fabricating an Educational Space and the Concept of Reference Societies 4. Cross-National Policy Attraction, Emulation, Lesson-Drawing Part II: Agencies 5. Non-State Actors, Theory of the Post-Bureaucratic State 6. International Networks 7. Transnational Regimes: OECD, World Bank 8. South-South or East-East Cooperation Part III: Processes 9. Diffusion of Beliefs and Standards and Practices Themselves 10. Policy Learning by Means of Advocacy Coalitions 11. Agenda Setting in Evidence-Based Policy Planning 12. Agenda Setting 13. Reception, Projection Part IV: Impact 14. Convergence, Isomorphism 15. Differentiation between First-Order, Second-Order and Third-Order Change 16. Impact on Existing Practices 17. Translation, Interpretation, Local Adaptation, Indigenization