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Education research and policy : steering the knowledge-based
economy
Edited by Jenny Ozga, Terri Seddon and Thomas S. Popkewitz.
London : Routledge, 2006
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Book description
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 trans-national 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 explores these issues, focusing on
three key themes:
*Globalizing 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.
Education Research and Policy considers the impact of the steering
processes on the work and identities of individual researchers, and
considers how research can be organized to play a more active role in the
politics of the knowledge economy and learning society.
About the author
Terri Seddon is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash
University. Professor Terri Seddon has a national and international
reputation for her research on the social organization of education as a
social institution. She has published widely in journals and
published books. Professor Seddon is currently editor, with
Professor Jenny Ozga (Edinburgh) and Professor Evie Zambeta (Athens), of
the World Yearbook of Education (Routledge, Taylor and Francis).
Professor Seddon has substantial experience in managing funded research
projects and consultancies in Australia and overseas in Europe and
Kazakhstan.
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