Global, National and Local Scales of Governance in Education Policy

MATTEI, PAOLA; BEHREND, JACQUELINE

The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization

Oxford University Press

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2023; p. 457 - 475

Education is a policy field dominated by political contestation and politically salient reforms. It is an area of state activities permeated by a constant struggle for public resources, and power among actors. These domestic conflicts shape the institutional framework within which globalised public policy is then produced by international organizations. We therefore need to simultaneously capture the national, local developments and global levels of education governance. Moving on from the efforts of leading social theorists to conceptualise the process of globalization within a holistic framework that can be generalized to a wide population of cases globally, this chapter analyses the political and institutional factors that contribute to the substantive formulation and adoption of global policy reforms in education and their embeddedness at the national and local levels of governance in advanced and developing countries around the world. Thus, it is concerned with discussing complexities and variations across countries, in order to illuminate the persistence of political contestation and analyse the impact of global norms and ideas on local institutions and national education systems.