An International Handbook of Educational Reform

In: Wiley Handbooks in Education Ser

Abstract

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Toward a Transformational Agenda for Global Education Reform -- Global Education Reform: Trends, Ideology, and Crisis -- A Transformational Agenda for Global Education Reform -- References -- 1 Capitalism and Global Education Reform -- Introduction -- Schools Are Failures and Teachers Are to Blame -- Dominant Discourses -- Who Are the Purveyors? -- What Is Being Sold: Privatization -- What's Wrong with Capitalism? -- What to Do? -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 The Business Sector in Global Education Reform: The Case of the Global Business Coalition for Education -- Introduction -- Business Participation in Global Education Reform -- Conceptualizing the Role of Business in Education in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis -- The Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC‐E) -- GBC‐E Participation in the Syrian Refugee Crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Venture Philanthropy and Education Policy‐Making: Charity, Profit, and the So‐Called "Democratic State" -- Introduction -- From the Rear Guard to the Frontline: A New Role for Philanthropy -- New/Effective/Impact/Strategic/Engaged/Venture Philanthropy -- Change in the Nature of Investments: Both For‐Profit and Not‐For‐Profit -- Back to the Future… -- References -- Annexes -- 4 Nodes, Pipelines, and Policy Mobility: The Assembling of an Education Shadow State in India -- Introduction -- Network Ethnography -- Pipelines, Conduits, and Nodes -- Thought Leadership -- Technology in the Classroom -- Discussion -- References -- 5 Reframing Teachers' Work for Global Competitiveness*: New Global Hierarchies in the Governing of Education -- Introduction -- Methods and Data -- Bringing Teachers into View as Policy Problem and Solution -- The TALIS Program: A Brief Introduction -- The TALIS ensemble -- Tensions and Contradictions in the TALIS Program