Politics of Quality in Education.

• Superior document: Routledge research in international and comparative education
• TeilnehmendeR: Kauko, Jaakko,; Rinne, Risto,; Takala, Tuomas,
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in international and comparative education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 208 pages) :; illustration, charts; digital, PDF file(s).

The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisationsand national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in Education focuseson Brazil, China, and Russia, part of the so-called emerging nations? BRICSblock, and draws on a four-year project to develop a new theoretical andmethodological approach. The book builds a comparative, sociohistorical, and transnational understandingof political relations in education, with a particular focus on the policies andpractices of quality assurance and evaluation (QAE). Tracking QAE processesfrom international organisations to individual schools, contributors analyse howQAE changes the dynamics in the roles of state, expertise, and governance. Thebook demonstrates how national and sub-national actors play a central role inthe adaptation, modification, or rejection of transnational policies. Politics of Quality in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students engaged in the study of comparative and internationaleducation, as well as educational policy and politics. It should also be essentialreading for practitioners and policymakers.

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Comparing politics of quality in education / Jaakko Kauko Tuomas Takala Risto Rinne -- chapter 2 Layers of reflectivity in comparative research / Jaakko Kauko Vera Gorodski Centeno Nelli Piattoeva Helena Candido Galina Gurova Anna Medvedeva Íris Santos Olli Suominen Xingguo Zhou -- chapter 3 Historical paths to shared interest in quality assurance and evaluation / Olli Suominen Vera Gorodski Centeno Galina Gurova Johanna Kallo Xingguo Zhou -- chapter 4 Established and emerging actors in the national political arenas / Jaakko Kauko Olli Suominen Vera Gorodski Centeno Nelli Piattoeva Tuomas Takala -- chapter 5 Changing expertise and the state / Risto Rinne Xingguo Zhou Jaakko Kauko Romuald Normand Anna Medvedeva Íris Santos -- chapter 6 Governance by data circulation? The production, availability, and use of national large-scale assessment dataNelli Piattoeva et al. / Nelli Piattoeva Vera Gorodski Centeno Olli Suominen Risto Rinne -- chapter 7 Effects of quality assurance and evaluation on schools’ room for action / Galina Gurova Helena Candido Xingguo Zhou -- chapter 8 Alternative views of the future of quality assurance and evaluation / Johanna Kallo Tuomas Takala Vera Gorodski Centeno Olli Suominen -- chapter 9 Conclusion / Jaakko Kauko Risto Rinne Tuomas Takala.