The Routledgefalmer Reader in Education

This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in the policy and politics of education today. With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Stephen Ball and Carol Vincent also include a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to role of politics in the current educational climate. Students of politics and education policy and politics will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.

List of illustrations

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Acknowledgements

x

Introduction: reading education policy and politics

1

BOB LINGARD AND JENNY OZGA

PART I The global framing of education policy and politics

9

1 Postmodernity and revisioning the political

11

ANNA YEATMAN

I

11

II

14

III

16

IV

19

V

21

2 Debating globalization and education after September 11

23

FAZAL RIZVI

3 Big policies/small world: an introduction to international perspectives in education policy

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STEPHEN J. BALL

Introduction

36

Post-modernity and the global economy

36

Magical solutions?

38

Localism and recontextualisation

44

Conclusion

45

Acknowledgements

46

4 Specifying globalization effects on national policy: a focus on the mechanisms

48

ROGER DALE

Introduction

48

Globalization

50

Dimensions of variability between external effects on national education policies

52

A comparison of policy transfer mechanisms

55

Conclusion

62

5 Globalisation, education policy and politics

65

JENNY OZGA AND BOB LINGARD

Introduction

65

Globalising/economising education policy

70

Speaking back in the vernacular

72

Governing by numbers and the new global education policy field

75

Education research, policy and politics

77

Conclusion

79

PART II Vernacular politics, policies and processes

83

6 After the marketplace: evidence, social science and educational research

85

ALLAN LUKE

Introduction

85

On evidence-based social policy

88

Does evidence count in policy formation?

91

Enlisting critical social science in policy development

93

On poverty in early childhood

94

On pedagogy in the middle years

96

On pathways from school to the new economy

96

A research agenda

98

Acknowledgements

99

7 Globalization and educational policymaking: a case study

101

SANDRA TAYLOR AND MIRIAM HENRY

Introduction

101

The OECD and educational policymaking

102

Changing discourses of vocational education and training Australian approaches to vocational education and training: 1970's-1990's

103

Australian policies and the OECD

107

Converging policy agendas in vocational education and training: the example of lifelong learning

108

Discussion: educational globalization and national policymaking

109

8 Swedish, European, global: the transformation of the Swedish welfare state

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LISBETH LUNDAHL

Introduction

117

Combined aspirations for economic growth and social welfare

118

Linking education more closely with the economy: education politics in the 1970's and early 2000's

120

The world reflected in contemporary Swedish education politics

123

Something borrowed and something new? Some final remarks

127

9 National and global competition in higher education

131

SIMON MARGINSON

Introduction

131

The national market in Australia

134

Global markets in higher education

142

10 Education, nation states and the globalization of information networks

154

NEIL SELWYN AND PHILLIP BROWN

Introduction

154

The political economy of NII policies in seven countries

155

The nature of education network policymaking: convergence or divergence?

159

Towards a research agenda

170

Conclusion

174

Acknowledgements

174

11 Unravelling a 'spun' policy: a case study of the constitutive role of 'spin' in the education policy process

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SHARON GEWIRTZ, MARNY DICKSON AND SALLY POWER

Introduction

178

Impression management and the growth of political spin

180

Rethinking spin

183

Not only but also

183

Spin as dynamic

185

Spin as endemic – the cascading culture of spin and its disciplinary nature

188

Spin as constitutive

193

Conclusion

194

12 Public accountability in the age of neo-liberal governance

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STEWART RANSON

Introduction

198

Understanding accountability

199

An intensifying regime of neo-liberal governance

201

The limits and contradictions of the regulatory regime of answerability

206

In search of an alternative model of public accountability

209

Towards democratic accountability in the public sphere

211

Contradiction and change in community governance

213

13 Realising policy: the who and how of policy production

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TREVOR GALE

Introduction

220

Policy speak: should politics be part of the vocabulary?

222

Permission to speak policy: the who of policy production

225

Playing with the hand you've been dealt: the how of policy production

229

Conclusion

233

14 Politics of social partnerships: a framework for theorizing

236

TERRI SEDDON, STEPHEN BILLETT AND ALLIE CLEMANS

Introduction

236

Politics within neo-liberalism

237

Politics within social partnerships

239

Forms of conflict

240

Critical moments in social partnerships

244

A framework for theorizing partnership politics

249

Conclusion

250

15 Bourdieu as education policy analyst and expert: a rich but ambiguous legacy

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AGNES VAN ZANTEN

Introduction

254

Bourdieu as educational policy analyst: the production and reception of an ambiguous concept, 'relative autonomy'

255

Bourdieu as policy expert: reforming educational institutions or radically transforming them?

260

Conclusion

264

Name index

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Subject index

274

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