Educational Policy in an International Context

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Educational Policy in an International Context provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes “the standards movement” and “new public management” or accountability in the public sector.

Contents:

PART I POLITICAL CULTURE, EDUCATION AND HISTORY – AN INTRODUCTION, – Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen,

Political Culture and Educational Reform – Geert Devos, Mats Ekholm, Kaspar Kofod, Karen Seashore Louis, Lejf Moos, Michael Schratz, and Boudewijn van Velz

Historical Perspectives on Educational Policy and Political Cultures – Karen Seashore, Louis, Kasper Kofod, Lejf Moos, and Boudewijn van Velzen

PART II INTRODUCTION

Many Cooks Will Not Spoil the Broth: Educational Policy in Sweden – Mats Ekholm

Denmark: Bildung in a Competitive State? – Lejf Moos and Klaus Kasper Kofod

The Netherlands: The Clergyman and the Merchant Revisited – Boudewijn A.M. van

Velzen

Flanders (Belgium): Regulated Anarchy in Catholic and Public Education – Geert

Devos

Austria’s Balancing Act: Walking the Tightrope Between Federalism And Centralization – Michael Schratz

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The English Case – Karen Seashore and John MacBeath

E Pluribus Unum? Dissonance in the U.S. Educational Political Culture – Karen Seashore Louis

PART III THE CROSS COUNTRY STUDIES

Reform in Stable systems: The Impossible Dream? – Geert Devos and Michael Schratz

Political Cultures in England and the Netherlands: Similar Discourse, Different Results – Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen

Examining the Myth of Nordic Uniformity: The Production of Educational Policy in Denmark and Sweden – Mats Ekholm and Lejf Moos

Educational Systems in North Carolina and Nebraska – Molly F. Gordon and Karen Seashore Louis

PART IV REFLECTIONS

‘Wer Vorwärts Kommen Will, Muss Auch Mal Rückwarts Denken’ Reflections On the Case Studies – Boudewijn van Velzen, Karen Seashore Louis, Geert Devos, Mats Ekholm, Kasper Kofod, Lejf Moos, and Michael Schratz

Policy Cultures and Education Policy: A Central and Eastern European Perspective – Gábor Halász

The Possibilities and Challenges of Comparative Policy: Reflections on the Limits of Policy, Globalization and Prediction – Ben Levin

Educational Policy in an International Context. Political culture and its effects.

Edited by Karen Seashore Loius and Boudewijn van Velzen

Palgrave Macmillan, October 2012