Educational Import : Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia

In this fascinating new book, Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Ines Stolpe explore Mongolia as an emblem of how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and in turn, how imported education reforms are locally modified, recontextualized, or "Mongolized." Why have imported policies such as vouchers, student-centered learning, or outcomes-based education, resonated in postsocialist Mongolia, and how have they been modified to fit the local context? Is an adoption of externally induced school reforms a sign of globalization in education? Steiner-Khamsi and Stolpe raise the important question of whether we should read such developments as evidence that educational systems in different corners of the world are gradually converging toward an international model. Educational Import is a compelling new look at globalization for all students, practitioners, and scholars of educational policy studies. Book jacket.

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is professor of comparative and international education at Teachers College, Columbia University.  Ines Stolpe is lecturer of Mongolian Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.