Handbook of Education Policy Studies

This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By effectively breaking through the boundaries between countries and disciplines, it presents new theories, techniques and methods for contemporary education policy, and illustrates the educational policies and educational reform practices that various countries have introduced to meet the challenges of continuous change.

This volume focuses on policies and changes in schools and classrooms. The studies on school changes present the differences in the policies and challenges of K-12 schools and universities in different countries and regions, and in connection with the contradictions and conflicts between tradition and modernization, as well as the changing roles of various stakeholders, especially that of teachers. In terms of curriculum and instruction, many countries have undertaken experiments and introduced changes based on two major themes: “what to teach” and “how to teach”. International education assessments represented by PISA not only promote the improvement and extensive application of educational assessment and testing techniques, but have also had far-reaching impacts on education policies and education reforms in many countries.

Focusing on the changes in educational policies at the micro level, this volume comprehensively reveals the complex interactions between school organizations, teachers, curricula, teaching and learning, evaluation and other elements within the education system, as well as the latest related reforms worldwide.

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Keywords

• International assessments
• Globalization and educational reform
• International cooperation
• International "agents" in modernizing
• Educational change
• The politics of education
• International/ transnational studies
• Historical studies
• Cultural diversity
• Regional differences
• Open Access

Table of contents (19 chapters)

Front Matter

School and Teacher

Front Matter

Path and the Standards of Rural School Consolidation in China Since 2000

• Zhihui Wu

Educational Technology as School Reform: Using Actor-Network Theory to Understand Recent Latin American Educational Policies

• Inés Dussel

Education Governance and School Autonomy: The Progressive Reform of K–12 School in China

• Guorui Fan, Lin Zhang

Teacher Education Policies in China Since the Mid-1990s

• Congman Rao

Higher Education Reform

Front Matter

The Idea of the University and Its Specters: On the Ghostly Return of the “Excluded”

• Daniel S. Friedrich

The Modernization of Higher Education

• Yifan Sui

The Impact of the Expansion of Higher Education on the Rate of Return to Higher Education in Taiwan

• Cheng-Ta Wu, Chia-Wei Tang

Curriculum and Instruction Reform

Front Matter

Japanese Educational Policy and the Curriculum of Holistic Development

• Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Whom Is the National Curriculum for? Politics in the National Curriculum System of South Korea

• Kyunghee So

History Education in Japan: An Account of Domestic Policy Controversies Over the Past War

• Masako Shibata

Education as Design for Learning: A Model for Integrating Education Inquiry Across Research Traditions

• Richard Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson

School-Based Teaching Research in China

• Wensen Yu

PISA and Education Reform

Front Matter

The Implications of Understanding That PISA Is Simply Another Standardized Achievement Test

• David C. Berliner

Revisiting the Fabrications of PISA

• Luís Miguel Carvalho

Subject in Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Impacts of PISA in Brazil

• Márcia Aparecida Amador Mascia

Editors and Affiliations

Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

About the editors

FAN Guorui, Ph.D, Professor of Education Theories and Policies, Institute of Schooling Reform and Development & Department of Education; Dean, School of Education Sciences, East China Normal University (2012-2014); Executive Director, the Professional Committee of Education Policy and Law, China Education Association (2007-); Chief-in-edition of the yearly book Education Policy Observatory(ECNU Press). Published more than 100 papers and several books, such as Theory and Practice of Education Policies (2011), The Change of Education System and Human Development (2008),School Administration: Theory and Practice (2003), The Ecology of Education (2000), etc.

Thomas S. Popkewitz is a curriculum theorist and professor from the United States of America, on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education. His studies are concerned with the knowledge or systems of reason that govern educational policy and research related to pedagogy and teacher education. His research includes histories of the present, ethnographic and comparative studies of national educational reforms in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the US. His book Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform (2008) explores the systems of reason in pedagogy through historically examining the changing images and narratives of Enlightenment concerns with cosmopolitanism. He has written or edited approximately 30 books and 200 articles in journals and book chapters. Two of his books (Paradigms and Ideology in Educational Research and A Political Sociology of Educational Reform) have won awards for their contribution to educational studies. His work has been translated into twelve languages (Chinese, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish).

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : Handbook of Education Policy Studies
• Book Subtitle : School/University, Curriculum, and Assessment, Volume 2
• Editors : Guorui Fan, Thomas S. Popkewitz
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8343-4
• Publisher : Springer Singapore
• eBook Packages : Education , Education (R0)
• Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
• License : CC BY
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-981-13-8342-7 Published: 11 June 2020
• Softcover ISBN : 978-981-13-8345-8 Published: 18 September 2020
• eBook ISBN : 978-981-13-8343-4 Published: 10 June 2020
• Edition Number : 1
• Number of Pages : XXIX, 383
• Number of Illustrations : 6 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
• Topics : Educational Policy and Politics , International and Comparative Education