Comparative inquiry and educational policy making

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Comparative inquiry and educational policy making

edited by David Phillips

Routledge, 2008

  • : pbk

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Previously published as a special issue of Oxford Review of Education

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Investigating policy attraction in education / David Phillips
  • Acting comparatively upon the educational world : puzzles and possibilities / Robert Cowen
  • The influence of overseas examples on DES policy-making for the school system in England, 1985-1995 / George Smith and Sonia Exley
  • Cross-national policy borrowing and educational innovation : improving achievement in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham / Kimberly Ochs
  • Educational standards and the changing discourse on education : the reception and consequences of the PISA study in Germany / Hubert Ertl
  • Comparative research as an insturment for EU aid and development programmes / John Sayer
  • Assumptions and implications of cross-national attraction in education : the case of 'learning from Japan' / Masako Shibata
  • The economics of policy borrowing and lending : a study of late adopters / Gita Steiner-Khamsi
  • Comparing the trajectories of educational change and policy transfer in developing countries / David Johnson
  • Global and cross-national influences on education in post-genocide Rwanda / Michele Schweisfurth

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Description

Building on an increasingly sophisticated body of research on policy 'borrowing' in education, this collection explores ways in which the foreign example in education has been and is being used by policy makers in a variety of settings, its aim being to assess the usefulness of 'foreign' experience in 'home' contexts.

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(1) Investigating Policy attraction in education. (2) Acting comparatively upon the educational world: puzzles and possibilities. (3) The influence of overseas examples on DES policy-making for the school system in England. 1985-1995. (4)Cross National policy borrowing andeducational innovation: improving achievement in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham. (5) Educational Standards and the changing discourse on education: the reception and consequences of the PISA study in Germany. (6) Comparative research as an instrument or EU aid and development programmes. (7) Assumptions and Implications of cross-national attraction in education: the case of 'learning from Japan'. (8) The economics of Policy borrowing and lending: a study of late adopters. (9) Comparing the trajectories of educational change and policy transfer in developing countires. (10) Global and cross-national influences on education in post genocide Rwanda.

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