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The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform examines educational reform from a global perspective. Comprised of approximately 25 original and specially commissioned essays, which together interrogate educational reform from a critical global and transnational perspective, this volume explores a range of topics and themes that fully investigate global convergences in educational reform policies, ideologies, and practices. The Handbook probes the history, ideology, organization, and institutional foundations of global educational reform movements; actors, institutions, and agendas; and local, national, and global education reform trends. It further examines the new managerialism in global educational reform, including the standardization of national systems of educational governance, curriculum, teaching, and learning through the rise of new systems of privatization, accountability, audit, big-data, learning analytics, biometrics, and new technology-driven adaptive learning models

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Toward a Transformational Agenda for Global Education Reform 1
Kenneth J. Saltman and Alexander J. Means

1 Capitalism and Global Education Reform 11
Steven J. Klees

2 The Business Sector in Global Education Reform: The Case of the Global Business Coalition for Education 27
Francine Menashy, Zeena Zakharia, and Sheetal Gowda

3 Venture Philanthropy and Education Policy‐Making: Charity, Profit,and the So‐Called “Democratic State” 47
Antonio Olmedo

4 Nodes, Pipelines, and Policy Mobility: The Assembling of an Education Shadow State in India 71
Stephen J. Ball and Shelina Thawer

5 Reframing Teachers’ Work for Global Competitiveness: New Global Hierarchies in the Governing of Education 87
Tore Bernt Sørensen and Susan Lee Robertson

6 School Principals in Neoliberal Times: A Case of Luxury Leadership? 113
Helen M. Gunter, Steven J. Courtney, David Hall, and Ruth McGinity

7 The Expansion of Private Schooling in Latin America: Multiple Manifestations and Trajectories of a Global Education Reform Movement 131
Antoni Verger, Mauro Moschetti, and Clara Fontdevila

8 Global Education Policies and Taken‐For‐Granted Rationalities: Do the Poor Respond to Policy Incentives in the Same Way? 157
Xavier Bonal

9 The Politics of Educational Change in the Middle East and North Africa:Nation‐Building, Postcolonial Reconstruction, Destabilized States, Societal Disintegration, and the Dispossessed 173
Eugenie A. Samier

10 Profiting from the Poor: The Emergence of Multinational Edu‐Businesses in Hyderabad, India 199
Carol Anne Spreen and Sangeeta Kamat

11 The Bait‐and‐Switch and Echo Chamber of School Privatization in South Africa 231
Salim Vally

12 The Violence of Compassion: Education Reform, Race, and Neoliberalism’s Elite Rationale 243
Noah De Lissovoy

13 Uncommon Knowledge: International Schools as Elite Educational Enclosures 259
Marcea Ingersoll

14 Startup Schools, Fast Policies, and Full‐Stack Education Companies:Digitizing Education Reform in Silicon Valley 283
Ben Williamson

15 Who Drives the Drivers?: Technology as the Ideology of Global Educational Reform 307
Petar Jandrić and Sarah Hayes

16 Resurgent Behaviorism and the Rise of Neoliberal Schooling 323
Mark J. Garrison

17 Educating Mathematizable, Self‐Serving, God‐Fearing, Self‐Made Entrepreneurs 351
Jurjo Torres‐Santomé

18 Putting Homo Economicus to the Test: How Neoliberalism Measures the Value of Educational Life 371
Graham B. Slater and Gardner Seawright

19 EcoJust STEM Education Mobilized Through Counter‐Hegemonic Globalization 389
Larry Bencze, Lyn Carter, Ralph Levinson, Isabel Martins, Chantal Pouliot,Matthew Weinstein, and Majd Zouda

20 When the Idea of a Second Grade Education for the Marginalized Becomes the Dominant Discourse: Context, Policy, and Practice of Neoliberal Capitalism 413
Ravi Kumar

21 Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Education: An Ethics for Capital or the Other? 435
Chris Arthur

22 The Socially Just School: Transforming Young Lives 467
John Smyth

23 Beyond Neoliberalism: Educating for a Just Sustainable Future 489
David Hursh and Alice Jowett

24 When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto 503
Henry A. Giroux

Index 517

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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform examines educational reform from a global perspective. Comprised of approximately 25 original and specially commissioned essays, which together interrogate educational reform from a critical global and transnational perspective, this volume explores a range of topics and themes that fully investigate global convergences in educational reform policies, ideologies, and practices. The Handbook probes the history, ideology, organization, and institutional foundations of global educational reform movements; actors, institutions, and agendas; and local, national, and global education reform trends. It further examines the new managerialism in global educational reform, including the standardization of national systems of educational governance, curriculum, teaching, and learning through the rise of new systems of privatization, accountability, audit, big-data, learning analytics, biometrics, and new technology-driven adaptive learning models

      Table of Contents

      Notes on Contributors ix

      Introduction: Toward a Transformational Agenda for Global Education Reform 1
      Kenneth J. Saltman and Alexander J. Means

      1 Capitalism and Global Education Reform 11
      Steven J. Klees

      2 The Business Sector in Global Education Reform: The Case of the Global Business Coalition for Education 27
      Francine Menashy, Zeena Zakharia, and Sheetal Gowda

      3 Venture Philanthropy and Education Policy‐Making: Charity, Profit,and the So‐Called “Democratic State” 47
      Antonio Olmedo

      4 Nodes, Pipelines, and Policy Mobility: The Assembling of an Education Shadow State in India 71
      Stephen J. Ball and Shelina Thawer

      5 Reframing Teachers’ Work for Global Competitiveness: New Global Hierarchies in the Governing of Education 87
      Tore Bernt Sørensen and Susan Lee Robertson

      6 School Principals in Neoliberal Times: A Case of Luxury Leadership? 113
      Helen M. Gunter, Steven J. Courtney, David Hall, and Ruth McGinity

      7 The Expansion of Private Schooling in Latin America: Multiple Manifestations and Trajectories of a Global Education Reform Movement 131
      Antoni Verger, Mauro Moschetti, and Clara Fontdevila

      8 Global Education Policies and Taken‐For‐Granted Rationalities: Do the Poor Respond to Policy Incentives in the Same Way? 157
      Xavier Bonal

      9 The Politics of Educational Change in the Middle East and North Africa:Nation‐Building, Postcolonial Reconstruction, Destabilized States, Societal Disintegration, and the Dispossessed 173
      Eugenie A. Samier

      10 Profiting from the Poor: The Emergence of Multinational Edu‐Businesses in Hyderabad, India 199
      Carol Anne Spreen and Sangeeta Kamat

      11 The Bait‐and‐Switch and Echo Chamber of School Privatization in South Africa 231
      Salim Vally

      12 The Violence of Compassion: Education Reform, Race, and Neoliberalism’s Elite Rationale 243
      Noah De Lissovoy

      13 Uncommon Knowledge: International Schools as Elite Educational Enclosures 259
      Marcea Ingersoll

      14 Startup Schools, Fast Policies, and Full‐Stack Education Companies:Digitizing Education Reform in Silicon Valley 283
      Ben Williamson

      15 Who Drives the Drivers?: Technology as the Ideology of Global Educational Reform 307
      Petar Jandrić and Sarah Hayes

      16 Resurgent Behaviorism and the Rise of Neoliberal Schooling 323
      Mark J. Garrison

      17 Educating Mathematizable, Self‐Serving, God‐Fearing, Self‐Made Entrepreneurs 351
      Jurjo Torres‐Santomé

      18 Putting Homo Economicus to the Test: How Neoliberalism Measures the Value of Educational Life 371
      Graham B. Slater and Gardner Seawright

      19 EcoJust STEM Education Mobilized Through Counter‐Hegemonic Globalization 389
      Larry Bencze, Lyn Carter, Ralph Levinson, Isabel Martins, Chantal Pouliot,Matthew Weinstein, and Majd Zouda

      20 When the Idea of a Second Grade Education for the Marginalized Becomes the Dominant Discourse: Context, Policy, and Practice of Neoliberal Capitalism 413
      Ravi Kumar

      21 Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Education: An Ethics for Capital or the Other? 435
      Chris Arthur

      22 The Socially Just School: Transforming Young Lives 467
      John Smyth

      23 Beyond Neoliberalism: Educating for a Just Sustainable Future 489
      David Hursh and Alice Jowett

      24 When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto 503
      Henry A. Giroux

      Index 517

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