Bücher der Reihe World Yearbook of Education in Reihenfolge

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. This book explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy, and considers the political implications of this in terms of monopolarity and the cultural consequences of homogenization and Americanization.

The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers.

This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Thus distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produced knowledge in different regions of the world.

Examines the concept of childhood and childhood development and learning from educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives. This volume provides a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the field of global and local childhood studies.

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of `childhood¿ and `childhood development and learning¿ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the emerging field of global and local childhood studies.

Examines Arab education in a range of contexts - regional, diasporic, and trans-national - to better understand how the field of Arab education is formed through local, regional, geopolitical and global engagements and resonances.

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, which is examined with a particular focus on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the global education industry both in OECD* countries as well as developing countries, and presents the works of scholars based in different parts of the word who have significantly contributed to this area of research. Focusing on the areas of cross-over in public-private partnerships in education, WYBE 2016 critically examines the actors and factors that have propelled the global rise of the education industry. Split into three key sections, Part I explores how education agendas are shaped; Part II considers the private financing of education and the export of school improvements to professional consultancies; and Part III analyses new market niches, such as low-fee private schooling and for-profit education provisions. The book draws upon case studies of many global organizations, including: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Pearson Affordable Learning Fund Bridge International Academies Teach for All Omega Schools Co-edited by three internationally renowned scholars, Antoni Verger, Christopher Lubienski and Gita Steiner-Khamsi, WYBE 2016 will be a valuable resource for researchers, graduates and policy makers who are interested in the global education industry. *Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the global education industry both in OECD* countries as well as developing countries, and presents the works of scholars based in different parts of the word who have significantly contributed to this area of research. Focusing on the areas of cross-over in public-private partnerships in education, WYBE 2016 critically examines the actors and factors that have propelled the global rise of the education industry.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It considers new economic trends and investigates how constraints appear to be influencing assessment and identification practices. The volume is organized around the following main issues: political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry; the associated expansion of an SEN industry, and; growth in consequential accountability systems. It ultimately seeks to provide reframings and reconceptualizations of assessment and identification by offering new insights into economic and cultural trends influencing them.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series considers the transformations in contemporary education that accompany global shifting horizons, changes to human self-understanding and practices of governing, and which open the door to educational reform.

This volume invites contributions from internationally renowned scholars deploying novel concepts and methodologies to grapple with contemporary empirical phenomena in educational research.

A timely contribution to debates on educational governance and equality, this volume considers specific school contexts as well as school specific responses

A timely contribution to debates on educational governance and equality, this volume considers specific school contexts as well as school specific responses

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of accountability and datafication in the governance of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 considers global policy dynamics and policy enactment processes.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of accountability and datafication in the governance of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 considers global policy dynamics and policy enactment processes. Chapters pay particular attention to the role of international organizations and the private sector in the promotion of performance-based accountability (PBA) in different educational settings and at multiple policy scales.Organized into three sections, chapters cover: the global/local construction of accountability and datafication; global discourse and national translations of performance-based accountability policies; and enactments and effects of accountability and datafication, including controversies and critical issues.With carefully chosen international contributions from around the globe, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 is ideal reading for anyone interested in the future of accountability and datafication in the governance of education.

This volume explores the idea that the key to understanding the current global situation of education lies in an understanding of nationalism.

Providing a comprehensive, global overview of the digitalization of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2024 examines the ways advanced digital technologies are transforming educational practices, institutions, and policy processes.