Research Catalog

Title

The OECD, globalisation, and education policy / Miriam Henry [and others].

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Published for IAU Press, Pergamon, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Henry, Miriam.

Description

xiii, 197 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Issues in higher education

Uniform Title

Issues in higher education (Oxford, England)

Alternative Title

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, globalisation, and education policy

Subject

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques
• Higher education and state > Cross-cultural studies
• Education and globalization > Cross-cultural studies
• Education and globalization
• Higher education and state
• Onderwijsbeleid
• Internationalisatie
• OESO
• Enseignement supérieur > Politique publique > Études comparatives

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187) and index.

Contents

Introduction to the OECD, Globalisation and Education Policy -- 1. Why the OECD? Background and Theoretical Framework. Organisation of the Book. Unravelling the OECD -- 2. Globalisation and Changing Educational Policy. Reconstituting the Nation-State. Globalisation of the Economy and a Post-Keynesian Policy Consensus. New State Structures and Forms of Governance. Conclusion -- 3. The OECD, Globalisation and Educational Policy Making: Changing Relationships. Who Are the OECD's Clients? Changing Relationships: Country and Thematic Reviews. From an OECD Approach to an OECD Position? Shifting Agendas. Agenda Setting and the Secretariat. Evolving Policy Priorities. Changing Role and Sphere of Influence: From Think-Tank to Policy Actor. Global, International and National Levels of Policy Making: Changing Relationships -- 4. Ideological Tensions in the OECD's Educational Work. Shifting Discourses of Equity. The Quality Agenda: Entangled Discourses of Improvement and Accountability. Educational Purposes: Tensions between Quality and Equality. Tensions between Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance. Quality in Higher Education and the Ascendance of Performativity Logic. A New Framing for Education: Social Inclusion and Exclusion -- 5. The Politics of Educational Indicators. A Brief History. Indicators For What Purpose? The Problem of Comparability. Indicators and Global Rationalisation. The Comparability Imperative and the New Educational Policy Consensus. Conclusion: Indicators and New Circuits of Homogenisation and Differentiation -- 6. From Recurrent Education to Lifelong Learning: The Vocational Education and Training Saga. Initial Developments in Recurrent Education Policy within the OECD. Transition Education Policy within Australia. Changing Contexts and Policy Approaches. Australia and the OECD: Merging Agendas. Lifelong Learning for All: Converging Policy. Implications for National Policy Making in Education -- 7. Redefining University Education. The OECD's Interest in Higher Education: A Brief Chronology. The Policy Themes of Redefining Tertiary Education. Analysis of Redefining Tertiary Education as a Policy Text. Redefining Tertiary Education: The OECD as Policy Actor? The Internationalisation of Tertiary Education. Conclusion -- 8. The OECD and Educational Politics in a Changing World. Dilemmas for the OECD. Neo-Liberal Contradictions. The Hollowed Out Logic of Performativity. The Liberal Think-Tank Trap. The Politics of Globalisation. Globalisation and Social Exclusion/Cohesion. Globalisation and Political Accountability. Educational Politics for a Changing World. Governance Issues. Educational purposes. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0080434495
• 9780080434490

LCCN

00026482

OCLC

• ocm48857786
• 48857786
• SCSB-1245378

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library