Global Pathways to Education: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations

332 Pages·2021·4.738 MB·English

by  Kerstin Martens, Michael Windzio

GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL POLICY
Global Pathways
to Education
Cultural Spheres,
Networks, and International
Organizations
Edited by
Kerstin Martens
Michael Windzio
Global Dynamics
of Social Policy CRC 1342
Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Series Editors
Lorraine Frisina Doetter
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Delia González de Reufels
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Kerstin Martens
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Marianne Sandvad Ulriksen
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
This open access series welcomes studies on the waves, ruptures and
transformative periods of welfare state expansion and retrenchment
globally, that is, across nation states and the world as well as across
history since the inception of the modern Western welfare state in the
nineteenth century. It takes a comprehensive and globalized perspective
on social policy, and the approach will help to locate and explain episodes
of retrenchment, austerity, and tendencies toward de-welfarization in
particular countries, policy areas and/or social risk-groups by reference to
prior, simultaneous or anticipated episodes of expansion or contraction
in other countries, areas, and risks. One of the aims of this series is to
address the different constellations that emerge between political and
economic actors including international and intergovernmental
organizations, political actors and bodies, and business enterprises. A
better understanding of these dynamics improves the reader’s grasp of
social policy making, social policy outputs, and ultimately the outcomes
of social policy.
More information about this series at
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16294
Kerstin Martens • Michael Windzio
Editors
Global Pathways
to Education
Cultural Spheres, Networks,
and International Organizations
Editors
Kerstin Martens Michael Windzio
Institute for Intercultural and International SOCIUM and Collaborative Research
Studies (InIIS) and Collaborative Research Centre 1342 “Global Dynamics of
Centre 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy”
Social Policy” University of Bremen
University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
Bremen, Germany
ISSN 2661-8672 ISSN 2661-8680 (electronic)
Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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On This Series
The intervention of states in fields such as health, social security, and
work, dates back to the nineteenth century, and became more dynamic
over time. Imperial Prussia, a social policy pioneer, first showcased its
progress at the Paris World Fair in 1900: the Prussian exhibit drew large
crowds eager to find out more about state pensions. Clearly, social policy
had become a matter of great interest to states and citizens alike.
Other nations soon embarked on implementing discrete social poli-
cies, thus turning the twentieth century into a time of remarkable welfare
state expansion. The end of World War II marked a new departure, as an
increasing number of countries outside the Western hemisphere began to
introduce social policy measures. States not only copied established forms
of welfare, but often developed measures sui generis to meet their specific
needs. While episodes of policy retrenchment and ruptures can be
observed over time, recent developments point to an expansion of social
policies in low-to-upper-middle-income countries of the Global South.
Social policy has thus become a global phenomenon.
It is generally accepted that the state is responsible for welfare and that
domestic politics and ideas have been a primary driver of its expansion.
However, in an increasingly interconnected world, social policy is imple-
mented at the national level but influenced by international develop-
ments and relations. It is shaped by trade, migration, war, and colonialism.
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Just as people travel, policy ideas follow. These factors merit scholarly
attention and demand interdisciplinary collaboration to generate new
insights into the global dimension of social policy.
This is what the Global Dynamics of Social Policy book series sets out
to accomplish. In doing so, it also contributes to the mission of the
Collaborative Research Center 1342 (CRC) “Global Dynamics of Social
Policy” at the University of Bremen, Germany. Funded by the German
Research Foundation, the CRC leaves behind the traditionally OECD-
focused analysis of social policy to stress the transnational interconnect-
edness of developments.
The book series showcases scholarship by colleagues worldwide who
are interested in the global dynamics of social policy. Studies can range
from in-depth case studies, comparative work and large quantitative
research. Moreover, the promotion of scholarship by young researchers is
of great importance to the series.
The series is published in memory of Stephan Leibfried to whom
our research on state and social policy at the CRC is indebted in
countless ways.
Series Editors:
Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Delia González de Reufels, Kerstin Martens,
Marianne S. Ulriksen
Acknowledgments
This book is based on the research conducted in the project A05 “The
Global Development, Diffusion, and Transformation of Education
Systems”, which forms part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC)
1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy” at the University of Bremen.
The Bremen CRC 1342 is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG, German Research Foundation)—project number 374666841—
SFB 1342. As editors, we are grateful to the DFG and the CRC for
having enabled us to conduct this research and to produce this volume.
Draft versions of the chapters have been discussed during an online work-
shop in December 2020 with experts on global education policy. We are
grateful to Camilla Addey, Chanwoong Baek, Jane Gingrich, Aneta
Hayes, Janna Teltemann, and Antoni Verger, who contributed to the
development of this book with their expertise and experience. Special
thanks go to Gita Steiner-Khamsi, who also supported the research in
this project significantly during her Mercator Fellowship at the CRC
1342 in June and July 2020. We also want to thank Gabrielle Bieser,
Nicole Henze, Amelia Price, and Monika Sniegs who took care of the
content alignment of the book.
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Praise for Global Pathways to Education
“A central problematic for education policy scholars has been to understand the
relationships between path-dependent national factors and the global diffusion
of ideas, particularly Western rationalism, in constituting education policy. This
collection proffers an empirically-based account that accepts to some extent the
isomorphism argument of neo-institutionalists, but argues that this is mediated
by specific cultural orientations across and within nations, as well as by other
national features. As such, this provocative collection offers challenges to all
education policy scholars and to future research agendas.”
—Bob Lingard, Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University
and Professor Emeritus, University of Queensland, Australia
“This bold new book, edited by Kerstin Martens and Michael Windzio, investi-
gates how Western ideas and institutional practices have diffused globally—and
why their uptake varies across culturally distinct groups of countries. Early chap-
ters focus on patterns of isomorphism across nations while later chapters provide
important new evidence on the roles played by international organizations in
the transmission of Western educational ideas and models. Later chapters pro-
vide important new research on familiar international organizations such as
the OECD, the World Bank, and UNESCO—while introducing us to the roles
played by two educational IOs that are less frequently studied, SEAMEO (the
South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization) and ICESCO (Islamic
World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). In a rich dialogue
with the work of John Meyer the book shows convincingly how both isomor-
phic diffusion and cultural variation shape global governance in education.”
—Karen Mundy, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
“This is a highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of remarkable
and growing significance. The book brings together the work of a dynamic
research team, whose writing and influence in the field of transnational educa-
tion governance cannot be over-stated. Well-theorised and featuring a plethora
of empirical analyses from a range of policy actors and contexts, this book is
thoroughly recommended for students and scholars interested in the field of
education policy and governance in Europe and globally.”
—Sotiria Grek, Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
Contents
1 The Global Development, Diffusion, and Transformation
of Education Systems: Transnational Isomorphism and
‘Cultural Spheres’ 1
Michael Windzio and Kerstin Martens
2 The Introduction of Compulsory Schooling Around the
World: Global Diffusion Between Isomorphism and
‘Cultural Spheres’ 37
Helen Seitzer, Fabian Besche-Truthe, and Michael Windzio
3 The Global Trajectories of Compulsory Education:
Clustering Sequences of Policy Development 65
Fabian Besche-Truthe
4 Does Globalization Affect the Performance of Secondary
Education Systems? A Coevolution Model of Multiplex
Transnational Networks and Educational Performance 97
Helen Seitzer and Michael Windzio
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