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  title info:
    title: Soft Governance, International Organizations and Education Policy Convergence
    sub title: Comparing PISA and the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes
  name:
    name part: Bieber, Tonia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 273 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the extent to which international organizations have shaped reforms in education and training in federalist countries with regards to policy convergence. In advanced democracies, international organizations have become increasingly influential in government activity. This also applies to policy fields that have traditionally been nearly exclusively regulated by the nation-state. How strong is their influence in policy fields like education where they rely on purely soft governance to stimulate national policies? From a political science perspective, three major initiatives are analyzed: the OECD’s PISA study, the European Bologna process and the European Union’s Copenhagen process. Within a few years, these initiatives have contributed to deep transformations within the education arena. This book elucidates the processes in which nation-states comply with these initiatives, using the examples of Switzerland and the United States. Tonia Bieber is Policy Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Before, she was Senior Researcher at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe ‘Transformative Power of Europe’ of Otto-Suhr-Institute, Free University of Berlin, and at the Collaborative Research Center ‘Transformations of the State’, University of Bremen, Germany. She has published on multilevel governance, international organizations, European integration in education and training policies, and policy convergence. She is the co-editor of Shaping Inequalities: Welfare State Transformation and its Outcomes.
  table of contents: PART I: FRAMING SOFT GOVERNANCE, EDUCATION AND CONVERGENCE -- Chapter 1. Education in Transition: An Empirical Puzzle -- Chapter 2. Measuring Convergence in Education Policy -- Chapter 3. Soft Governance and Voluntary Policy Convergence: A Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 4. Education Policy-Making in Switzerland: Origins and Trends -- PART II: SWITZERLAND: AN EXTREME CASE -- Chapter 5. Swiss Reforms in Compulsory Education: Drawing Lessons from PISA'a Revelations -- Chapter 6. Swiss Reforms in Higher Education: The Poster Child of the Bologna Process -- Chapter 7. Swiss Reforms in Vocational Education and Training: Cherry-Picking from the Copenhagen Process -- PART III: COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 8. Explaining Convergence in Education Policy -- Chapter 9. Soft Governance in Education: Lessons and Prospects.
  note: by Tonia Bieber.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Public policy
  subject:
    topic: International organization
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Public Administration
  subject:
    topic: Education Policy
  subject:
    topic: International Organization
  classification: LB2801-3095
  classification: 371.2
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  identifier: 9781137476951
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47695-1
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