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Education Policy, Globalization, and the Changing Nation State—Accelerating and Retarding Conditions

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In many countries educational policy today is under transformation. New demands of the labor market, the necessity of lifelong learning, technological progress of education delivery, and last but not least international comparative surveys, such as the PISA Study (Programme for International Student Assessment) and the Bologna Process for a common European Higher Education Area bring about challenges for national policymaking in the field of education.

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© 2010 Michael Windzio, Kerstin Martens, and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel

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Windzio, M., Martens, K., Nagel, AK. (2010). Education Policy, Globalization, and the Changing Nation State—Accelerating and Retarding Conditions. In: Martens, K., Nagel, AK., Windzio, M., Weymann, A. (eds) Transformation of Education Policy. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281295_11

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