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Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks. The role of nation-states in creating the conditions for education markets and the desire for a Westernized template of international education in the postcolonial world i

Education, Higher --- Education and globalization --- International education --- Global education --- Education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Economic aspects

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The newest member states of the EU - among them the Baltic states- are now involved in the Copenhagen process and are a source of enormous (human) potential that can greatly enrich Europe. As the Baltic States have enjoyed special attention in European VET policy, the reforms in VET and its structures are the subject of critical debate in this book. We hope that this book will be of service to both researchers and lecturers in the study of VET in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as for the broader context of internationalisation in VET.

Vocational education --- Education, Vocational --- Vocational training --- Work experience --- Education --- Technical education --- International and Comparative Education. --- Professional & Vocational Education. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Professional education. --- Vocational education. --- Education, Professional --- Career education --- Education, Higher --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- History

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Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, privatisation, and decentralisation in education globally. Using a number of diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to globalisation, the authors, by focusing on privatisation, marketisation and decentralisation, will attempt to examine critically both the reasons and outcomes of education reforms, policy change and transformation and provide a more informed critique on the Western-driven models of accountability, quality and school effectiveness. We want to demonstrate that claims of advantages in ‘efficiency’ brought about by privatisation in education are not always supported empirically as proposed by proponents. The book examines the overall interplay between privatisation, decentralisation and the role of the state. The authors draw upon recent studies in the areas of decentralisation, privatisation and the role of the state in education. By referring to Bourdieu’s call for critical policy analysts to engage in a ‘critical sociology’ of their own contexts of practice, and poststructuralist and postmodernist pedagogy, this collection of book chapters demonstrate how central discourses surrounding the debate of privatisation, decentralisation and the role of the state are formed in the contexts of dominant ideology, power, and culturally and historically derived perceptions and practices. The authors discuss the newly constructed and re-invented imperatives of privatisation, decentralisation and marketisation and show how they may well be operating as an educational model of a new global ‘master narrative’— playing a hegemonic role within the framework of economic, political and cultural hybrids of globalization.

Privatization in education --- Schools --- #SBIB:316.334.1O212 --- #SBIB:35H433 --- Public institutions --- Education --- Public schools --- Privatization of education --- Privatization of schooling --- School privatization --- Charter schools --- Government policy --- Decentralization&delete& --- Onderwijsbeleid: nationaal --- Beleidssectoren: onderwijs- en onderzoeksbeleid --- Decentralization --- Government policy. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Administration, Organization and Leadership. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- Administration, Educational --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Management --- Organization --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- History

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This book carries forward the findings of an international research project, first published in 2000, on the radical higher education reforms introduced since the 1970s. It is based upon documents, statistics and extensive interviews with politicians, institutional leaders and academics from a range of institutions and disciplines in three countries. It is one of only a handful of contemporary comparative studies that combine strong empirical research with theoretical analysis developed within a thematic rather than a country based framework. Drawing together the implications of studies of Sweden, Norway and England in a set of comparative analyses, the authors assess the reforms of the higher education systems on three distinct levels, the state, the institution and the individual. They examine change in government policy, in the leadership and management of higher education institutions and the impact on academic identities and the academic profession.

Higher education and state --- Educational change --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations --- Education, Higher --- State and higher education --- Education and state --- Government policy --- Education, Higher. --- Higher Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education --- Higher education. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- History