Governing knowledge
Subtitle: comparison, knowledge-based technologies and expertise in the regulation of education
By: edited by Tara Fenwick, Eric Mangez, Jenny Ozga
Series: World Yearbook of Education -- 2014; World year book of education -- 2014.
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780415828734
Subjects: Educational technology; Expert systems (Computer science); Education; Comparative education; Education and state; Bildungspolitik
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Governing knowledge : comparison, knowledge-based technologies and expertise in the regulation of education  -- Tara Fenwick, Eric Mangez and Jenny Ozga -- Part I: Governing by comparison.; title: Comparative research in education : a mode of governance or a historical journey?  -- Antonio Novoa and Tali Yariv-Mashal; title: Knowledge production and technologies of governance in education  -- Steven J. Klees and D. Brent Edwards Jr.; title: Network alliances : precarious governance through data, standards and code  -- Tara Fenwick and Richard Edwards; title: The attraction of mutual surveillance of performances : PISA as a knowledge-policy instrument  -- Luis Miguel Carvalho -- Part II: Knowledge technologies in action.; title: Data work  -- Michael Barber in conversation with Jenny Ozga; title: The World Bank and higher education reform in Ethiopia : knowledge aid and its undesirable effects  -- Tebeje Molla; title: Expert-consultants and knowledge production : 'teachers for EFA' in Brazil  -- Eneida Oto Shiroma; title: The role of knowledge in scientific policy advice : doing knowledge  -- Alma Demszky and Armin Nassehi; title: Modernizing education in Pakistan : networked governance, the role of consultants and the prevalence of data  -- Sajid Ali; title: Big data and the politics of education in Nigeria  -- David Johnson; title: Governing through feedback : from national orientation towards global positioning  -- Maarten Simons; title: National qualifications frameworks governing knowledge : insights from South Africa  -- Shirley Walters and Samuel Isaacs; title: Standardization of professional knowledge and practice : the regulatory role of professional associations in Norway  -- Monika Nerland and Berit Karseth; title: Governing education in China : PISA, comparison and educational regions  -- Philip Wing Keung Chan and Terri Seddon; title: New governing experts in education : self-learning software, policy labs and transactional pedagogies -- Ben Williamson.