Short description:

The 2006 edition of one of the most respected annual publication in education, focusing on research and its effects on educational policy around the globe.

Long description:

This volume considers the ways in which educational research is being shaped by policy across the globe. Policy effects on research are increasingly influential, as policies in and beyond education drive the formation of a knowledge-based economy by supporting increased international competitiveness through more effective, evidence-based interventions in schooling, education and training systems.

What consequences does this increased steering have for research in education? How do transnational agencies make their influence felt on educational research? How do national systems and traditions of educational research - and relations with policy - respond to these new pressures? What effects does it have on the quality of research and on the freedom of researchers to pursue their own agendas?

The 2006 volume of the World Yearbook of Education explores these issues, focusing on three key themes:

• globalising policy and research in education


• steering education research in national contexts


• global-local politics of education research.

The 2006 volume has a truly global reach, incorporating transnational policy perspectives from the OECD and the European Commission, alongside national cases from across the world in contrasting contexts that include North and South America, Canada, France, Singapore, China, Russia and New Zealand. The range of contributions reflect how pervasive these developments are, how much is new in this situation and to what extent evidence-based policy pressures on research in education build on past relationships between education and policy.

This book considers the impact of the steering processes on the work and identities of individual researchers and considers how research can be organised to play a more active role in the politics of the knowledge economy and learning society.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Jenny Ozga, Terri Seddon, Thomas S. Popkewitz; Part 1 Globalising policy and research in education; Chapter 1 Universities, the internet and the global education market, Ingrid Lohmann; Chapter 2 Accountability in US educational research and the travels of governance, Noah W. Sobe; Chapter 3 Crossing borders, Angelos Agalianos; Chapter 4 International policy research, Tom Schuller; Chapter 5 A European perspective on international arenas for educational research, Sverker Lindblad; Part 2 Research steering in national contexts; Chapter 6 Toward new government of education research, Kari Dehli, Alison Taylor; Chapter 7 The steering of educational policy research in neoliberal times, Jorge Gorostiaga, Mónica Pini, Ana M. Donini, Mark B. Ginsburg; Chapter 8 The steering of educational research in post-Soviet Russia, Irina Isaakyan; Chapter 9 The politics of educational research in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia, Cynthia Joseph; Chapter 10 Research as consultancy in the African university, Kenneth King; Chapter 11 Redesigning what counts as evidence in educational policy, Allan Luke, David Hogan; Chapter 12 Performativity, measurement and research, Peter Roberts; Chapter 13 Global trends towards education and science, Barbara Schneider, Zack Kertcher, Shira Offer; Chapter 14 Neoliberalism liberally applied, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Iveta Silova, Eric M. Johnson; Chapter 15 Marketing academic issues, Xavier Rambla; Chapter 16 Competition and interaction between research knowledge and state knowledge in policy steering in France, Agn?s van Zanten; Chapter 17 Education policy research in the People?s Republic of China, Rui Yang; Part 3 Global?local politics of educational research; Chapter 18 Knowledge beyond the knowledge economy, Johannah Fahey, Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Simon Robb; Chapter 19 After methodolatry, Erica McWilliam; Chapter 20 Policy scholarship against de-politicisation, Patricia Thomson;