Transformation of Education Policy

by Martens, Kerstin; Nagel, Alexander-Kenneth; Windzio, Michael; Weymann, Ansgar

• ISBN13: 9780230246348
• ISBN10: 0230246346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Transformation of Education Policydeals with internalization processes in education policy and their impact on national policy making. It investigates national responses to the PISA study for secondary education and the Bologna study for tertiary education. Five in depth country case studies are included.

Author Biography

Kerstin Martens is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University Of Bremen, Germany. She is co-editor of New Arenas of Education Governance (Palgrave 2007).
Alexander-Kenneth Nagel is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. His current research interests are institutional change in policy networks and faith-based organizations as social service providers. His recent publications examine the Bologna Process as a policy network and apocalyptic thought in modern times.
Michael Windzio is Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany. His current work encompasses social networks of immigrant children in school classes, economic sociology of immigrant integration, life course research, spatial labor mobility, multi-level event-history analyses and juvenile delinquency.
Ansgar Weymann is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS) at the University of Bremen, Germany. His areas of expertise include social theory, social change, life course research and longitudinal and international comparative studies of education and employment.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments by the Editors	p. xii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xiii
Notes on Contributors	p. xv
Theory and Methods
Introduction-Education Policy in Transformation
Measuring Transformation of Education Policy-a Mixed-Method Approach	p. 28
Historical Settings
The Educating State-Historical Developments and Current Trends	p. 53
Country Case Studies
Turn of the Tide-New Horizons in German Education Policymaking through IO Influence	p. 77
Playing the Multilevel Game in Education-the PISA Study and the Bologna Process Triggering Swiss Harmonization	p. 105
What's England Got to Do with It? British Underestimation of International Initiatives in Education Policy	p. 132
Education Policy in New Zealand-Successfully Navigating the International Market for Education	p. 153
A Contrasting Case-the U.S.A. and Its Weak Response to Internationalization Processes in Education Policy	p. 179
Comparative Analyses
Comparing Education Policy Networks	p. 199
The Internationalization of Education Policy in a Cross-National Perspective	p. 227
Conclusion
Education Policy, Globalization, and the Changing Nation State-Accelerating and Retarding Conditions	p. 261
Index	p. 277
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