Critical Analyses of Educational Reforms in an Era of Transnational Governance

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This book represents a set of critical analyses of educational reforms where issues of transnational governance are of vital concern. It focuses on different aspects of, and practices in educational reform-making, and in particular on governing techniques and the working of new agencies such as supranational and multinational organizations. In addition, the book examines contemporary issues of immigration/immigrants in the politics of schooling, by reflecting on matters of migration, and problematizing how concepts such as exclusion and abjection make the migrants appear “failed”, “insufficient” and even “dangerous”. The book provides theoretical insights into critical relations between knowledge and power, governance and governmentality, and notions concerning educational systems, as well as how these are compared. The central themes of the book are models for organizing and reflecting on transnationalization and educational reforms. In its discussion of those themes, the focus lies on changing conceptions of education and the educational system; on how school or teacher education is adapting to discourses of effectiveness and efficiency; and on their transformation according to standardized templates. Such changing conceptions define the meanings of education and educational progress; they are important for the identification and analysis of educational knowledge, and for critical discourses on education in society. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Critical Analyses of Educational Reform – Writing a Title and Editing a Book (Elisabeth Hultqvist, Sverker Lindblad, Thomas S. Popkewitz)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Narrating and Relating Educational Reform and Comparative Education (Robert Cowen)....Pages 23-39 Reforming Education: The Spaces and Places of Education Policy and Learning (Bob Lingard)....Pages 41-60 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Education Governance by Results? On Communication in a Performative Turn in Swedish Education (Sverker Lindblad)....Pages 63-76 Educational Restructuring and Social Boundaries: School Choice and Consumers of Education (Elisabeth Hultqvist)....Pages 77-91 Becoming Fit for Transnational Comparability (John Benedicto Krejsler, Ulf Olsson, Kenneth Petersson)....Pages 93-111 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Globalizing Switzerland by Harmonizing the Cantonal Systems of Education in the Aftermath of PISA (Daniel Tröhler)....Pages 113-129 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 Reform and Making Human Kinds: The Double Gestures of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Practice of Schooling (Thomas S. Popkewitz)....Pages 133-150 The Transnational Phenomenon of Individual Planning in Response to Pupil Diversity: A Paradox in Educational Reform (Ines F. Alves)....Pages 151-168 Refiguring the European Student: Mixed Transnational Feelings (Maarten Simons)....Pages 169-184 Student Centredness and Learning from a Perspective of History of the Present (Ulf Olsson, Kenneth Petersson, John Benedicto Krejsler)....Pages 185-196 Governing the Intermediary Spaces: Reforming School and Subjectivities Through Liminal Motivational Technologies (Helle Bjerg, Dorthe Staunæs)....Pages 197-212 Digital Technologies in the Classroom: A Global Educational Reform? (Inés Dussel)....Pages 213-228 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 When the Other Arrives to the School (Fernando Hernández-Hernández, Juana M. Sancho-Gil)....Pages 231-244 A Manifestación to Disinvent Mundus’ Authoritarian Regimes and the Categorical Imperative of Hospitality (Ligia (Licho) López López)....Pages 245-262 Migration as a Method: Deterritorializing the “Floating Children” in Contemporary China (Lei Zheng)....Pages 263-280