EDU4220 Policies and Practice of Educational Reform
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Jacobi, A. P. 2012a. Facilitating Transfer: International Organisations as Central Nodes for Policy Diffusion. In Steiner-Khamsi, G. and Waldow, F. (Eds). Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education. London: Routledge, 391-407 (13 pp)
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Kubow, P. K. and P. R. Fossum. 2007. Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context. New Jersey; Pearson Merill Prentice Hall, Chapter 5 Education Accountability and Authority, 167-207 (36 pp)
Kweng, J. 2016. Embeded models of development : Educational changes in the People’s Republic of China. In Chou, C. P. & Spangler, J. 2016. Chinese education models in a global age. Singapore, Springer, 3 – 14 (11 pp)
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OECD. 2013. Education policy outlook: Finland. 1 – 18 (18 pp)
Samoff, J. 2013. Institutionalizing International Influence. In: Arnove, R. F., Torres, C. A. & Franz, S. (Eds). Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 55-87 (26 pp)
Tan C. & Reyes, V. 2016. Curriculum reform and education policy borrowing in China: Towards a hybrid model of teaching. In Chou, C. P. & Spangler, J. 2016. Chinese education models in a global age. Singapore, Springer, 37 – 50 (13 pp)
Uchem, R. N. & Ngwa, E. S. 2014. Inclusive education policy implementation in post-apartheid South Africa: Lessons for Nigeria and Cameroon. Journal of Education and Practice, 5 (36): 92 – 98 (7 pp)
Wiseman, A. 2013. Policy Responses to PISA in Comparative Perspective. In Meyer, H. D. & Benavot, A. (Eds). Pisa, Power, and Policy. The Emergence of Global Educational Governance. Oxford: Symposium Books, 303-322 (14 pp)
Total: 346 pp
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