Showing papers in "Globalisation, Societies and Education in 2019"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the OECD's PISA 2018 international framework for global competence, and present a critical analysis of the PISA framework with a focus on its influential role in facilitating neoliberal education policy trends.
Abstract: This paper focuses on the OECD’s PISA 2018 international framework for global competence. Given the growing national and international attention on educating for global competence, and absent of other measures, there is a need to scrutinise this framework. Our critical analysis is conceptually framed by academic literature related to (a) the OECD’s influential role in facilitating neoliberal education policy trends, (b) disjuncture and debate surrounding global competence, and (c) how influence is garnered through measurement technologies. We conclude by encouraging the OECD to be transparent in the reporting of results and educational stakeholders to be cautious interpreters of forthcoming results and rankings.
50 citations
TL;DR: The authors argued against the framing of the university as an ideal and argued that contemporary changes in the domain of knowledge production are usually seen as posing significant challenges to "the University" and argued against framing the University as ideal.
Abstract: Contemporary changes in the domain of knowledge production are usually seen as posing significant challenges to ‘the University’ This paper argues against the framing of the university as an ideal
43 citations
TL;DR: The authors deployed a qualitative approach to explore an alternative perspective regarding graduate migrants' employability, and 20 graduate migrants in Australia participated in an in-depth interview with the authors of this study.
Abstract: This study deployed a qualitative approach to explore an alternative perspective regarding graduate migrants’ employability. Twenty graduate migrants in Australia participated in in-depth interview...
37 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that LinkedIn moves beyond the passivity of advertising to its users towards actively structuring digital labour markets, in which it strategically includes universities and its constituents, and suggests that LinkedIn is building a global marketplace for skills to run in parallel to or instead of university degrees.
Abstract: Students, academics and university administrators are increasingly using and producing digital platforms, including social media. This paper focuses on LinkedIn to start tackling the question of the effects on higher education as a sector, its actors and the established social practices. It argues that LinkedIn moves beyond the passivity of advertising to its users towards actively structuring digital labour markets, in which it strategically includes universities and its constituents. By introducing the term ‘qualification altmetrics’, the paper suggests that LinkedIn is building a global marketplace for skills to run in parallel to, or instead of university degrees. Qualification altmetrics might challenge the established practices of knowledge production and valuation.
35 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the development of New Public Management (NPM) in four OECD countries: Australia, England, Spain, and Switzerland, focusing on how certain policy instruments are created and sustained within highly differentiated geo-political settings and through different multi-scalar actors and authorities yet modified to reflect established traditions and practices.
Abstract: The influence of New Public Management (NPM) on public sector organisation is nowhere more evident or pervasive than in the field of school governance where political actors, school leaders and governors are called upon to make the internal operation of the school more transparent and accountable to others through the explicitness of performance indicators and output measurements. Yet despite the prevalence of corporate and performative models of school governance within and across different education systems, there are various cases of uneven, hybrid expressions of NPM that reveal the contingency of global patterns of rule in the context of changing political-administrative structures. Adopting a ‘decentred approach’ to governance (Bevir 2010), this paper compares the development of NPM in four OECD countries: Australia, England, Spain, and Switzerland. A focus of the paper is how certain policy instruments are created and sustained within highly differentiated geo-political settings and through different multi-scalar actors and authorities yet modified to reflect established traditions and practices. The result is a nuanced account of the complex terrain on which NPM is grafted onto and translated to reflect inherited institutional landscapes and political settlements and dilemmas.
31 citations
TL;DR: In Asia, the international school scene has experienced marketisation and corporatisation as discussed by the authors, and a consequence is that many wealthier families view international schools as a source of income and privilege.
Abstract: Across Asia, the international school scene has experienced marketisation and corporatisation. A consequence is that many wealthier families – outside of expatriate communities – view international...
27 citations
TL;DR: Guided by neoliberalism and post-colonialism, the authors takes the case of global citizenship education (GCE) in South Korea to explore social studies teachers' experiences and their everyday vocabularies.
Abstract: Guided by neoliberalism and post-colonialism, this article takes the case of global citizenship education (GCE) in South Korea to explore social studies teachers’ experiences and their everyday voi...
24 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that claims made to support fundamental restructuring of public universities lack substance or evidence and instead are underpinned by different configurations of ideology and self-interest that together envelope universities in new agendas of marketisation, financialisation and privatisation.
Abstract: In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two documents commissioned beyond government to create political momentum for this project: Avalanche is Coming and The University of the Future. These both capture the zeitgeist of reform while simultaneously creating the university futures that they portend. We examine the market-making work they perform in reimagining and reinventing universities ahead of policy reform. We argue that claims made to support fundamental restructuring of public universities lack substance or evidence. Rather, each is underpinned by different configurations of ideology and self-interest that together envelope universities in new agendas of marketisation, financialisation and privatisation. We suggest that in this latest restructuring of public universities critics should pay more attention to the work of consultancies and think tanks alongside the micro-details of market making. By doing so, they too might reimagine public universities, but for a different political project.
23 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an instrumentalist approach that focuses on how economic rationality underlies international student mobility (ISM) and propose a method to analyze the relationship between economic rationality and student mobility.
Abstract: The existing literature offers an instrumentalist approach that focuses on how economic rationality underlies international student mobility (ISM). In response to these instrumentalist acco...
22 citations
TL;DR: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has emerged as a global policy in language education which has been "borrowed" by nations across the world as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has emerged as a global policy in language education which has been ‘borrowed’ by nations across the world. This paper presen...
20 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines a shift in the value awarded to the disciplinary knowledge developed in universities and examines the instrumentalised function of this type of knowledge as it is "priced" and sold in the marketplace.
Abstract: This paper examines a shift in the value awarded to the disciplinary knowledge developed in universities. The instrumentalised function of this type of knowledge as it is ‘priced’ and sold ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how a national higher education sector can be assembled upon a relatively narrow ideological foundation during and in the aftermath of violent conflict, and they analyze the case of...
Abstract: This paper explores how a national higher education sector can be assembled upon a relatively narrow ideological foundation during and in the aftermath of violent conflict. It analyses the case of ...
TL;DR: In this paper, global citizenship is becoming increasingly significant as a desirable graduate attribute in the context of increasing globalisation and cultural diversity, but both the means and ends of global citizenship are discussed.
Abstract: Global citizenship (GC) is becoming increasingly significant as a desirable graduate attribute in the context of increasing globalisation and cultural diversity. However, both the means and ends of...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the strategies think tanks from Brussels, London, Paris and Ljubljana use to exert influence on European Union (EU) policy-making.
Abstract: This article explores the strategies think tanks (TTs) from Brussels, London, Paris and Ljubljana use to exert influence on European Union (EU) policy-making. The paper argues that European...
TL;DR: The authors argue that academic labour markets around the world are increasingly globalised and tied to transnational circuits of neoliberal capital, and that universities in New Zealand are closely aligned with these tre...
Abstract: Academic labour markets around the world are increasingly globalised and tied to transnational circuits of neoliberal capital. Universities in New Zealand are closely aligned with these tre...
TL;DR: The past decade has witnessed the OECD and World Bank increasingly converge on the view that cognitive levels of students and education should be correlated as discussed by the authors, based on several highly influential quantitative studies.
Abstract: Founded on several highly influential quantitative studies, the past decade has witnessed the OECD and World Bank increasingly converge on the view that cognitive levels of students and education q...
TL;DR: OECD dominance in the international educational policy discourse in the developed regions of the world, particularly in promoting teaching policy, has been long acknowledged as discussed by the authors, and many works have been published.
Abstract: OECD dominance in the international educational policy discourse in the developed regions of the world, particularly in promoting teaching policy, has been long acknowledged. While many works have ...
TL;DR: The authors examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class peers, and found that both groups of parents were...
Abstract: We examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class (LMC) peers. Both groups of parents were ...
TL;DR: The authors compare China's 2006 and 2015 Africa policies and reveal how China's political discourse has become more confident, practical, and depoliticised, and show how edging towards the center of the political spectrum has been achieved.
Abstract: Comparing China’s 2006 and 2015 Africa policies, this article reveals how China’s political discourse has become more confident, practical, and depoliticised. In particular, this paper shows how ed...
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that China witnesses a renaissance of classical studies and Confucian Academies across the nation, with an estimated 10 million children attending Confucians kindergartens, classes, and sch...
Abstract: Today China witnesses a renaissance of classical studies and Confucian Academies across the nation. With an estimated 10 million children attending Confucian kindergartens, classes, and sch...
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model of education for global citizenship by drawing on the literature on international student mobility for higher education is proposed, which outlines the kinds of kinds of education that should be offered to global citizens.
Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual model of education for global citizenship by drawing on the literature on international student mobility for higher education. This model outlines the kinds...
TL;DR: The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a secular educational franchise, educating the globally advantaged and potential future leaders as mentioned in this paper. But it is not suitable for all students.
Abstract: The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a secular educational franchise, educating the globally advantaged and potential future leaders. Drawing on Bourdieu, this article involves original ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors start from contemporary scholarship in decolonial theory as well as from the seventeenth century political thinker Guaman Poma de Ayala, whose critique of colonial society in Pe...
Abstract: This study starts from contemporary scholarship in decolonial theory as well as from the seventeenth century political thinker Guaman Poma de Ayala, whose critique of colonial society in Pe...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed and compared the motivations and reactions of education authorities and parents in South Korea and mainland China towards schooling reform, focusing on two countries: Korea and China.
Abstract: This article analyses and compares the motivations and (re)actions of the education authorities and parents in South Korea and mainland China towards schooling reform. The focus is on two p...
TL;DR: In this article, the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Coase's theory of transaction costs is examined. But the authors do not consider the role of the university administrator.
Abstract: As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially ...
TL;DR: In this article, an exploration in the mode of thinking of refugee youth on the relations of "democracy" and "dictatorship" is presented, tracing the geopolitical relations of authoritarian and democratic regimes.
Abstract: This article is an exploration in the mode of thinking of refugee youth on the relations of ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship.’ Tracing the geopolitical relations of authoritarian and democrati...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 685 documents in SCOPUS between 1970 and 2018 in 70 countries and triangulated the information with 11369 news articles and 22 news articles.
Abstract: To investigate the spread of peace education (PE), we examined 685 documents in SCOPUS between 1970 and 2018 in 70 countries and triangulated the information with 11369 news articles and 22...
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative case study adopts a process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation to explore developments in national curricula and standard-based reforms in the USA and Austria, respectively.
Abstract: This comparative case study adopts a process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation to explore developments in national curricula and standard-based reforms in the USA and Aust...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that instructors, researchers, and students often see universities as obviously unique institutions, not cut off from "the real world" but certainly different from it.
Abstract: Instructors, researchers, and students often see universities as obviously unique institutions, not cut off from ‘the real world’ but certainly different from it. This is not the case with the grou...
TL;DR: The world culture framework posits a convergence in the organisation of education across the world, and scholars observing teaching practices inside classrooms find significa... as mentioned in this paper, but they do not consider the role of the teacher in this convergence.
Abstract: The world culture framework posits a convergence in the organisation of education across the world. On the other hand, scholars observing teaching practices inside classrooms find significa...