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World Yearbook of Education 2014 - Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education (Hardcover, New)
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World Yearbook of Education 2014 - Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education (Hardcover, New)
Series: World Yearbook of Education
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This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series
focuses on a major and highly significant development in the
governing of education across the globe: the use of knowledge-based
technologies as key policy sources. A combination of factors has
produced this shift: first, the massive expansion of technological
capacity signalled by the arrival of 'big data' that allows for the
collection, circulation and processing of extensive system
knowledge. The rise of data has been observed and discussed
extensively, but its role in governing and the rise of comparison
as a basis for action is now a determining practice in the field of
education. Comparison provides the justification for 'modernising'
policy in education, both in the developed and developing world, as
national policy makers (selectively) seek templates of success from
the high performers and demand solutions to apparent
underperformance through the adoption of the policies favoured by
the likes of Singapore, Finland and Korea. In parallel, the growth
of particular forms of expertise: the rise and rise of educational
consultancy, the growth of private (for profit) involvement in
provision of educational goods and services and the increasing
consolidation of networks of influence in the promotion of 'best
practice' are affecting policy decisions. Through these
developments, the nature of knowledge is altered, along with the
relationship between knowledge and politics. Knowledge in this
context is co-constructed: it is not disciplinary knowledge, but
knowledge that emerges in the sharing of experience. This book
provides a global snapshot of a changing educational world by
giving detailed examples of a fundamental shift in the governing
and practice of education learning by: * Assessing approaches to
the changing nature of comparative knowledge and information *
Tracking the translation and mobilisation of these knowledges in
the governing of education/learning; * Identification of the key
experts and knowledge producers/circulators/translators and
analysis of how best to understand their influence; * Mapping of
the global production of these knowledges in terms of their range
and reach the interrelationships of actors and their effects in
different national settings. Drawing on material from around the
world, the book brings together scholars from different backgrounds
who provide a tapestry of examples of the global production and
national reception and mediation of these knowledges and who show
how change enters different national spaces and consider their
effects in different national settings.
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