Thomas S. Popkewitz

Thomas S. POPKEWITZ muestra de manera brillante alternativas para reflexionar sobre las posibilidades de la escolarización en las sociedades modernas. Analiza las reformas educativas de los siglos XX y XXI a través de la lente del cosmopolitismo, el ideal de la Ilustración que considera que la educación es el mejor modo de conformar una persona racional, libre de determinismos y, por tanto, con un sinfín de posibilidades. El autor examina las distintas políticas educativas y su génesis histórica. Para ello, estructura el libro en dos partes. Comienza realizando un análisis de las reformas educativas de Dewey, Thorndike y los primeros sociólogos de la educación. Luego pasa a cuestionar los principios subyacentes del cosmopolitismo que promueven los currícula actuales, las políticas de indicadores, los programas de formación del profesorado y las investigaciones educativas de este momento. Desvela cómo mediante análisis y soluciones particulares y planes de acción se están tratando de promover distintos modelos de «persona razonable». La historia del presente radica en explorar los cambios epistemológicos, científicos y sociales que producen los principios rectores de qué es ser niño y niña, cómo deben ser y quién no se ajusta a dichos parámetros. Para justificar sus argumentos, el autor recurre a las investigaciones de una amplia gama de disciplinas y de fuentes empíricas e históricas. El uso de fuentes primarias del pasado y del presente sirve para comprender las distinciones, diferenciaciones y divisiones por medio de las cuales se producen, ordenan y clasifican las funciones y prácticas escolares. Es una obra decisiva para comprender los sistemas educativos del presente, las razones de lo que acontece en las actuales instituciones escolares. Thomas S. POPKEWITZ es Catedrático de Currículum e Instrucción de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Es Senior lnternational Academician de la Academia Rusa de Educación (1996). Es Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Umea, Suecia (1989), de la Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal (2001 ), de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, Bélgica (2004), y de la Universidad de Helsinki, Finlandia (2007).

La ciencia, la educación y la construcción de la sociedad mediante la construcción de la infancia

El cosmopolitismo y la era de la reforma escolar

An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school practice and policy-making.

Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community

Educational Knowledge

Fazal Rizvi

The National Society for the Study of Education is an organization of education scholars, professional educators, and policymakers dedicated to the improvement of education research, policy, and practice. Founded in 1901 by a small group of distinguished educators including John Dewey, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Charles Hubbard Judd, NSSE is the oldest national educational research organization in the United States. The mission of the National Society for the Study of Education is to investigate enduring and contemporary problems, disseminate the findings of its investigations, and engage members of the education community in study and discourse around those findings for the improvement of research, policy, and practice. One important way the Society accomplishes this mission is through the publication of its two-volume yearbooks, now in their 108th year. Each volume of a yearbook deals with a separate topic of current concern to educators. With knowledgeable scholars and practitioners as contributing authors, the yearbooks are reliable and authoritative sources of information on timely educational topics. Some yearbooks have become landmark publications in the field with which they deal.

Globalization and the Study of Education

Guorui Fan

This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By effectively breaking through the boundaries between countries and disciplines, it presents new theories, techniques and methods for contemporary education policy, and illustrates the educational policies and educational reform practices that various countries have introduced to meet the challenges of continuous change. Based on an analysis of the nature of education policy and education reform, this volume focuses on education reform and the concept of education quality. Adopting a historical and comparative perspective, it examines the dialectical relationship between education policy and education reform in various countries, assesses theoretical and practical issues in the process of moving from regulation to multiple governance in contemporary education administration, and explores the impact of globalization on national education reform and the interdependence between countries. In addition, it presents studies addressing educational policy research methodology from multiple perspectives. Highlighting the changes in national education macro policies, this volume comprehensively reveals the complex relationship between contemporary education reform and social change, and explores the links between contemporary social, political and economic systems and educational policy research and practice, offering a holistic portrait of macro trends in contemporary education reform.

Values, Governance, Globalization, and Methodology, Volume 1

Handbook of Education Policy Studies

M. Bloch

K. Holmlund

I. Moqvist

This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emerge during the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first-centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.

Restructuring the Welfare State

Governing Children, Families and Education

Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of power and schooling, the argument is that the principles that order school subjects, the curriculum, and teaching reforms are historical practices that govern what is thought, acted on, and talked about. Highlighting the dynamics of social exclusion, the normalizing of people through curriculum, and questions of social inclusion, The "Reason" of Schooling underscores the urgency for rethinking curriculum research.

Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education

The “Reason” of Schooling

Sverker Lindblad

Daniel Pettersson

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as ‘rationales’ to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

The Expertise of International Assessments

Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society

International Perspectives on Traveling Policies

Educational Restructuring

Elisabeth Hultqvist

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.

Critical Analyses of Educational Reforms in an Era of Transnational Governance

Marie Brennan

The intellectual work of Michel Foucault has been an increasingly central component of social science in recent years. This is the first book to directly address the implication of Foucault's work for the field of education.

Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education

Foucault's Challenge

David F. Labaree

Daniel Tröhler

Daniel Tr Hler

This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the long nineteenth century.

Comparative Visions

Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century

Drawing on a wide variety of traditions and methods in historical studies, from the humanities and social sciences both, this volume considers how historians from a wide variety of countries create the study of the history of education. It poses ways of thinking about the questions, methods, and knowledge of historical studies in the formation of schooling that go beyond those typically found in American studies of the history of education.

Transnational Perspectives on Its Questions, Methods, and Knowledge

Rethinking the History of Education

Jenny Ozga

Terri Seddon

This volume considers the ways in which educational research is being shaped by policy across the globe. Policy effects on research are increasingly influential, as policies in and beyond education drive the formation of a knowledge-based economy by supporting increased international competitiveness through more effective, evidence-based interventions in schooling, education and training systems. What consequences does this increased steering have for research in education? How do transnational agencies make their influence felt on educational research? How do national systems and traditions of educational research - and relations with policy - respond to these new pressures? What effects does it have on the quality of research and on the freedom of researchers to pursue their own agendas? The 2006 volume of the World Yearbook of Education explores these issues, focusing on three key themes: globalising policy and research in education steering education research in national contexts global-local politics of education research. The 2006 volume has a truly global reach, incorporating transnational policy perspectives from the OECD and the European Commission, alongside national cases from across the world in contrasting contexts that include North and South America, Canada, France, Singapore, China, Russia and New Zealand. The range of contributions reflect how pervasive these developments are, how much is new in this situation and to what extent evidence-based policy pressures on research in education build on past relationships between education and policy. This book considers the impact of the steering processes on the work and identities of individual researchers and considers how research can be organised to play a more active role in the politics of the knowledge economy and learning society.

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