Overview
- Focuses on the vertical interdependencies through carefully selected IOs, providing path-breaking and systematically aligned research on the paradigms that IOs spread across the globe
- Meets a growing demand for more systematic knowledge about the development and transformation of education systems and the agency of IOs in global education governance
- Employs historical macro-data to identify the national and international factors which determined the introduction of and changes to education policy
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: Global Dynamics of Social Policy (GDSP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explanation of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, and change in relation to state education systems. The chapters offer an empirical investigation into whether the global diffusion of Western-rational educational content and organizational forms occurs as expected by neoinstitutionalist theory, or whether culturally specific developmental paths dominate in different parts of the world.
The book will be of interest to students and researchers in various social science disciplines,including social policy, education, sociology, political science, international relations, organizational theory, and economics.
Reviews
“A central problematic for education policy scholars has been to understand the relationships between path-dependent national factors and the global diffusion of ideas, particularly Western rationalism, in constituting education policy. This collection proffers an empirically-based account that accepts to some extent the isomorphism argument of neo-institutionalists, but argues that this is mediated by specific cultural orientations across and within nations, as well as by other national features. As such, this provocative collection offers challenges to all education policy scholars and to future research agendas.” - Bob Lingard, Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University and Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
“This bold new book, edited by Kerstin Martens and Michael Windzio, investigates how Western ideas and institutional practices have diffused globally – and why their uptake varies across culturally distinct groups of countries. Early chapters focus on patterns of isomorphism across nations while later chapters provide important new evidence on the roles played by international organizations in the transmission of Western educational ideas and models. Later chapters provide important new research on familiar international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, and UNESCO – while introducing us to the roles played by two educational IOs that are less frequently studied, SEAMEO (the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization) and ICESCO (Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). In a rich dialogue with the work of John Meyer the book shows convincingly how both isomorphic diffusion and cultural variation shape global governance in education.” - Karen Mundy, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
"This is a highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of remarkable and growing significance. The book brings together the work of a dynamic research team, whose writing and influence in the field of transnational education governance cannot be over-stated. Well-theorised and featuring a plethora of empirical analyses from a range of policy actors and contexts, this book is thoroughly recommended for students and scholars interested in the field of education policy and governance in Europe and globally." - Sotiria Grek, Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kerstin Martens is Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Michael Windzio is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Pathways to Education
Book Subtitle: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations
Editors: Kerstin Martens, Michael Windzio
Series Title: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78884-1Published: 01 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78887-2Published: 01 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78885-8Published: 30 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2661-8672
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 318
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Social Policy, Education Policy, Sociology of Education