Comparative Inquiry and Educational Policy Making (Hardcover)

(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 and educational 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.