Globalizing educational accountabilities
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Globalizing educational accountabilities
（Education in global context）
Routledge, 2016
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- : pbk
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Height of pbk.: 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-178) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415710244
Description
Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in schooling systems around the world. Tracing the evolution of those regimes, with an emphasis on the OECD's PISA, it reveals the multiple effects of policy as numbers in countries with different types of government and different education systems. From the effect of Shanghai's PISA success on nations trying to compete economically to the perverse effects of linking funding to performance targets in Australia, the analysis links testing and accountability to new modes of network governance, new spatialities, and the significance of data infrastructures. This highly illustrative text offers scholars and policy makers a critical policy sociology framework for doing education policy analysis today.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Global educational accountabilities. Chapter 3: Politics of mutual accountability. Chapter 4: Catalyst data. Chapter 5: PISA and the invisibility of race. Chapter 6: PISA and the politics of "failing boys". Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415710251
Description
This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on globalization with regard to the rescaling of educational accountabilities, linked to international and national testing regimes and their impact. In particular, this book examines the impact and effects of this global framework in two illustrative nations: Australia and Canada. The focus on these two nations, which have very different forms of federalism, allows for consideration of the rescaling of politics and policies in the context of globalization and for an analysis of the complex rescaling of educational accountabilities. It is the first book to document and analyse the multi-scalar, relational and differentiated effects in national schooling systems of this rescaling of educational accountability. The authors also consider the ways in which these accountability regimes have rearticulated social justice and equity policies within nations in reductive ways. It offers scholars and policy makers both a methodology and an epistemological framework grounded in critical policy sociology for doing education policy analysis in a time of neo-liberal globalization.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The OECD's Education Work
Chapter 3. Running the 'Education Race'
Chapter 4. Strong Performers/Successful Reformers in Education?
Chapter 5. 'Gap Talk' and 'Failing Boys' in Ontario
Chapter 6. High Stakes Testing for School Systems in Australia
Chapter 7. Conclusion
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