Globalisation and Education Policy

Module overview

In recent decades globalisation has impacted national education policies in industrialised, emerging and developing economies. This module will look at the different ways in which some education systems in different regions have changed their policies and provision of education in line with ongoing and expected changes, and learn about the contributing actors and shaping factors. We will look at ways in which these changes have impacted upon the teaching and learning processes and possible outcomes

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

The teaching and learning methods will include lectures, seminars, group work, tutorials, student presentations and self-directed study.

Study time
Type	Hours
Completion of assessment task	55
Teaching	18
Follow-up work	15
Preparation for scheduled sessions	25
Wider reading or practice	37
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

Shahjahan, R. A. (2016). International organizations (IOs), epistemic tools of influence, and the colonial geopolitics of knowledge production in higher education policy. Journal of Education Policy, 31(6), pp. 694-710.

Ball, S. J (1993). What is policy? Texts, trajectories and toolboxes. The Australian Journal of Education Studies, 13(2), pp. 10-17.

Hogan, A., Creagh, S., Lingard, B., Choi, T., & Poudel, P. P. (2024). Doing enactment within the logics of policy privatisation: how inclusion policy can be interpreted and translated for English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) students. Language and Education, 1-15.

Choi, T. H. (2021). English fever: educational policies in globalised Korea, 1981–2018. . History of Education, 52(4), pp. 670-686.

Textbooks

Harvey, D. (2007). A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford University Press.

Lingard, B. (2020). Globalisation and education: Theorising and researching changing imbrications in education policy.. In Globalisation and education (pp. 1-27). Routledge.

Verger, A., M. Novelli and H. K. Altinyelken (eds.) (2012). Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policie. London: Continuum.

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Learning journal	40%
Individual Presentation	60%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Digital presentation	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Digital presentation	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External