Research of Vs Research for Education Policy

Download or read book Research of Vs Research for Education Policy written by Richard Desjardins and published by Richard Desjardins. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As national governments reform their educational systems to meet the challenges of living in a globalised world, the agenda setting power of transnational organizations like the OECD and the EU have become more transparent in the last decade. The phenomenon of globalization has a number of implications for education policy-making processes and not least it has had an impact on who conducts policy studies and how. This book brings together a variety of contributions which explore recent political economic changes affecting education policy-making processes including the ascension of neo-liberalism and the transnationalization of education policy-making, as well as the tension between research of policy and research for policy. Working from different perspectives, the authors help to provide a better understanding of these two important sets of issues which the field of education must contend with today.