Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives The Po
This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of the
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D. Brent Edwards Jr.
Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives “Edwards provides an invaluable case study into how the World Bank produces ‘policy-based evidence’—rather than ‘evidence-based policy’—to reinforce its neoliberal bias. His detailed work on education policy in El Salvador exposes how the Word Bank’s purportedly scientific and neutral ‘impact evaluations’ are anything but.” —Robin Broad, Professor, American University and John Simon Guggenheim Fellow “Through an impressive blend of theoretical and empirical analyses, Edwards carefully and critically scrutinises what has typically been taken as a ‘technical’ and ‘neutral’ mechanism in the field of educational aid—i.e., impact evaluation—and demonstrates the breadth and depth of its consequences as a tool of educational governance at the national and international levels. This major, original and important book represents a significant contribution to knowledge about the intersection of impact evaluation and educational aid.” —Roger Dale, Professor, University of Bristol “Brent Edwards skillfully employs a multi-level, political economy approach to critically analyzing the agenda-setting role of the World Bank. His study of EDUCO (Education with Community Participation) in El Salvador convincingly documents the importance of in-depth studies of the historical and sociocultural contexts in which reforms arise and are then extended to other countries. By situating this global reform within a comprehensive financial-political-intellectual complex, he deftly critiques the seemingly rigorous and objective econometric studies that served as the basis for global policy promotion of EDUCO, while offering more appropriate research approaches that provide insight as to who benefits from what educational interventions.” —Robert F. Arnove, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Indiana University, Bloomington
D. Brent Edwards Jr.
Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives The Political Economy of Knowledge Production
D. Brent Edwards Jr. University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI, USA
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