Interventions in Education Systems Reform and Development

Interventions in Education Systems draws on research conducted in England, Mexico, Singapore and Finland to illuminate reform processes to education systems in a range of contexts, to develop a better understanding of intervention processes and to promote the development of more sophisticated models for reforming education systems. The authors compare policy implementations and interventions in countries with different socio-economic profiles and different levels of development, highlighting how these processes in practice all too frequently are side-tracked and distorted, often unintentionally, by political, economic and social forces.

David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Charles Posner is Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Director of the Instituto de Investigación Educativa y Desarrollo de Nayarit, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Mexico;
Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico; consultant at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France and advisor to Ministry of Education, México.

Christopher Martin is Doctor in Anthropology from the University of London, UK, previously Education and Information Programme Officer for the British Council in Mexico and Program Officer for the Ford Foundation in Mexico and Central America, is currently Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Education, University of London, UK and consultant to education reform programmes with the Ministry of Education, Mexico. He is also Associate Fellow of the Virtual University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Elsa Guzman is Doctor in Anthropology from the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, previously lecturer in Social Sciences at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK and South Bank University, UK, is currently a member of the Institute of Adult Education in Mexico.

Oscar Alvarez-Macotela is President of the Centre for Research on Consumption and the Consumer (CICC), a think-tank based in Mexico, and member of the Mexican Talent Network in the UK.

Introduction
1. Policy Development and System Reform
2. Curriculum Development in Mexico
3. Developing the Teacher Workforce in India
4. England's Top-down Approach to Educational Reform
5. Finland's Partnership Model of Reform
6. Learning from Policy Development and Reform Programmes References
Index