The Global Politics Of Educational Borrowing And Lending

by Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Popkewitz, Thomas S.

• ISBN13: 9780807744932
• ISBN10: 080774493X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

The globalization of educational policy has become a popular, if not ubiquitous, phenomenon among educational policymakers across the world. It has led many observers to conclude that educational systems in different parts of the world are converging towards one international (neo-liberal) model of school reform. This practice of borrowingand lending school reforms requires a serious examination of the politics and the economics of transnational educational transfer. In this volume, Steiner-Khamsi and her colleagues provide an in-depth empirical and critical examination of the practice of global educational policy. Contributors question the value of importing and exporting educational policies, analyze who benefits from these arrangements, and test the effectiveness of adapting one country's policies in other (often quite culturally distinct) countries. The book investigates how global policies have been implemented locally, and examines the extent to which they work in diverse locales. teiner-Khamsi and her colleagues also examine the role and practices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral organizations, and the World Bank in fostering how educational policies are disseminated and adapted across national and cultural boundaries.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Thomas S. Popkewitz
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction Globalization in Education: Real or Imagined?	1	(6)
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
I GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONALITY, AND CROSS-NATIONAL POLICY ATTRACTION	7	(62)
1 Past, Present, and Future Globalizations	13	(16)
Charles Tilly
2 Constructions of Internationality in Education	29	(25)
Jürgen Schriewer and Carlos Martinez
3 Toward a Theory of Policy Attraction in Education	54	(21)
David Phillips
II THE POLITICS OF EDUCATIONAL BORROWING	69	(100)
4 Adopting the Language of the New Allies	75	(13)
Iveta Silova
5 Helping to Make the Case for Integration: The Israeli Black Panthers	88	(13)
Tali Yariv-Mashal
6 Appropriating Borrowed Policies: Outcomes-Based Education in South Africa	101	(13)
Carol Anne Spreen
7 Local Reactions to Imposed Transfer: The Case of Eastern Berlin Secondary School Teachers	114	(15)
Bernhard T. Streitwieser
8 The Politics of Constructing Scientific Knowledge: Lysenkoism in Poland	129	(12)
William deJong-Lambert
9 The Referential Web: Externalization Beyond Education in Tanzania	141	(13)
Frances Vavrus
10 Timing Is Everything: The Intersection of Borrowing and Lending in Brazil's Adoption of Escuela Nueva	154	(15)
Thomas F. Luschei
III THE POLITICS OF EDUCATIONAL LENDING	169	(52)
11 International NGOs and Best Practices: The Art of Educational Lending	173	(15)
Dana Burde
12 Taking the Credit: Financing and Policy Linkages in the Education Portfolio of the World Bank	188	(13)
Phillip W. Jones
Conclusion Blazing a Trail for Policy Theory and Practice	201	(20)
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
About the Editor and the Contributors	221	(4)
Index	225