The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics (Paperback)

Section 1: The Global Framing of Education Policy and Politics 1. Postmodernity and Revisioning the Political 2.Debating Globalisation and Education after September 11th 3.Big Policies, Small World: An Introduction to International Perspectives in Education Policy 4.Specifying Globalization Effects on National Policy:A Focus on the Mechanisms 5.Governing Education: Educational Politics and Policy Section 2: Vernacular Politics, Policies and Processes 6. After the Marketplace: Evidence, Social Science and Educational Research 7. Globalization and Educational Policy-making: A Case Study 8. Swedish, European, Global: The Transformation of the Swedish Welfare State 9. National and Global Competition in Higher Education 10. Education, Nation States and the Globalisation of Information Networks 11.Unravelling a ‘Spun’ Policy:A Case Study of the Constitutive Role of ‘Spin’ in the Education Policy Process 12.Public Accountability in the Age of Neo-Liberal Governance 13.Realising Policy: The Who and How of Policy Production 14. Politics of Social Partnerships:A Framework for Theorizing 15. Bourdieu as Education Policy Analyst and Expert:A Rich but Ambigious Legacy