Overview
- Critically reviews concepts around global education policy and international policy transfer
- Sheds light on the origins of global education policy using a holistic approach
- Contributes to the literature on education reform in El Salvador
Part of the book series: International and Development Education (INTDE)
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This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer. While both of these issues have gained popularity in the field of international and comparative education, there remains much that we do not know. In particular, while numerous studies have been produced which examine how global education policies—such as vouchers, charter schools, conditional-cash transfers, standardized testing, child-centered pedagogy, etc.—are implemented globally, we lack research which illuminates the origins and evolution of such policies. The book addresses this critical gap in our knowledge by looking at multiple aspects of the trajectory of a particular policy which was born in El Salvador in the early 1990s and subsequently went global. Edwards explicitly analyzes the trajectory of global education policy with reference to the role of international organizations and within the larger international political and economic dynamics that affected the overall country context of El Salvador.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“This book is the first rigorous account of the evolution of a global education policy that provides a comprehensive description of the Latin American context and a sophisticated discussion of debates in globalization studies and political economy.” (Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Comparative and International Education, Columbia University, USA)
“This important book traces the origins and subsequent movement of the Education with Community Participation program (EDUCO) through and by multilateral agencies into other sites. This is exactly the sort of theoretically informed but empirically grounded analysis of global education policy formation that we need more of.” (Stephen J. Ball, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
“This volume is a beautifully crafted, in-depth analysis of EDUCO,set in El Salvador. D. Brent Edwards Jr. shows the gains to be had in understanding EDUCO when tracing its multi-scalar dynamics and global trajectory over time and scape. This is case study work at its best.” (Susan L. Robertson, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
D. Brent Edwards Jr. is Assistant Professor of Theory and Methodology in the Study of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Central America, El Salvador, and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Trajectory of Global Education Policy
Book Subtitle: Community-Based Management in El Salvador and the Global Reform Agenda
Authors: D. Brent Edwards Jr.
Series Title: International and Development Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50875-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50874-4Published: 29 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50875-1Published: 25 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6424
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6432
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 304