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Pick "n" Mix, Select and Project; Policy Borrowing and the Quest for "World Class" Schooling: An Analysis of the 2010 Schools White Paper
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Morris, Paul – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a quest to achieve a "world class" education system through a process of identifying and adopting the practices of those systems whose pupils perform best in league tables of achievement. This is the rationale for the range of new policies proposed by the coalition government in the schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Educational Change
The French Curricular Exception and the Troubles of Education and Internationalisation: Will It Be Enough to "Rearrange the Deckchairs"?
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Gauthier, Roger-Francois; Le Gouvello, Margaux – European Journal of Education, 2010
The history of education in France, with its inherited link between the Republic and the religion of knowledge, produces a specific form of educational functioning, consubstantial to a tradition of selection and a symptomatic lack of what elsewhere is called a curriculum. While the recent introduction of the "common grounding of knowledge and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Education and Reproduction of Social Inequality: German Politics and Sociology of Education
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Sunker, Heinz – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
This article deals with central issues in the field of sociology and politics of education after the publication of the outcomes of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study for Germany. These outcomes serve to remind us of the old debate on politics of education in the 1960s. The main topic since then remains the reproduction…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Social Bias