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Refractions of the Global Educational Agenda

Educational Possibilities in an Ambiguous Policy Terrain

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In this chapter, we present what we interpret as ambiguities in the Education for All (EFA) policy agenda (outlined below), and explore how neoliberal substructures influence the opportunity to embrace the negotiative spaces that ambiguous policies might offer. To investigate these dynamics, we have chosen to examine cultural and historical refractions of the EFA agenda in two very different cultural contexts – Norway, located in the Global North, and Nepal, located in the Global South.

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  1. Department of Education, University of Agder, Norway

    Ingunn Elisabeth Stray

  2. Department of Education, University of Agder, Norway

    Helen Eikeland Voreland

  3. University of Tallinn, Estonia

    Helen Eikeland Voreland

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Stray, I.E., Voreland, H.E. (2017). Refractions of the Global Educational Agenda. In: Rudd, T., Goodson, I.F. (eds) Negotiating Neoliberalism. Studies in Professional Life and Work, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-854-9_7

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