The global politics of educational borrowing and lending / edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi ; forword by Thomas S. Popkewitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steiner-Khamsi, Gita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational planning--Cross-cultural studies.

Educational planning.

Education--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Education.

Education and state--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and state.

Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and globalization.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]

Summary:

Will the "best practices" of schools in Scotland work in South Africa? Are PTAs, 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. 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. Steiner-Khamsi and her colleagues also examine the role and practices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral organizations, and the World Bank in fostering how educational policies are disseminated and adapted across national and cultural boundaries.

Contents:

Introduction: Globalization in Education: Real or Imagined? / Gita Steiner-Khamsi 1

I Globalization, Internationality, and Cross-National Policy Attraction 7

1 Past, Present, and Future Globalizations / Charles Tilly 13

2 Constructions of Internationality in Education / Jurgen Schriewer, Carlos Martinez 29

3 Toward a Theory of Policy Attraction in Education / David Phillips 54

II The Politics of Educational Borrowing 69

4 Adopting the Language of the New Allies / Iveta Silova 75

5 Helping to Make the Case for Integration: The Israeli Black Panthers / Tali Yariv-Mashal 88

6 Appropriating Borrowed Policies: Outcomes-Based Education in South Africa / Carol Anne Spreen 101

7 Local Reactions to Imposed Transfer: The Case of Eastern Berlin Secondary School Teachers / Bernhard T. Streitwieser 114

8 The Politics of Constructing Scientific Knowledge: Lysenkoism in Poland / William deJong-Lambert 129

9 The Referential Web: Externalization Beyond Education in Tanzania / Frances Vavrus 141

10 Timing Is Everything: The Intersection of Borrowing and Lending in Brazil's Adoption of Escuela Nueva / Thomas F. Luschei 154

III The Politics of Educational Lending 169

11 International NGOs and Best Practices: The Art of Educational Lending / Dana Burde 173

12 Taking the Credit: Financing and Policy Linkages in the Education Portfolio of the World Bank / Phillip W. Jones 188

Conclusion: Blazing a Trail for Policy Theory and Practice / Gita Steiner-Khamsi 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

080774493X

OCLC:

54906232