Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending
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educational best practices
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exporting educational policy
global education policy
importing educational policy
international education policy
multilateral educational organizations
NGO's and educational policy
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- ISBN 9780807744932
- Weight: 343g
- Dimensions: 163 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Will the 'best practices' of schools in Scotland work in South Africa? Are PTA's, a mainstay of American school governance, as valuable in European countries? Who decides and why? The globalization of educational policy has become a popular, if not ubiquitous, phenomenon among educational policymakers across the world. It has led many observers to conclude that educational systems in different parts of the world are converging towards one international (neo-liberal) model of school reform. This practice of 'borrowing' and 'lending' school reforms requires a serious examination of the politics and the economics of transnational educational transfer. In this volume, Steiner-Khamsi and her colleagues provide an in-depth empirical and critical examination of the practice of global educational policy. Contributors question the value of importing and exporting educational policies, analyze who benefits from these arrangements, and test the effectiveness of adapting one country's policies in other (often quite culturally distinct) countries. The book investigates how 'global' policies have been implemented locally, and examines the extent to which they work in diverse locales.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
