Handbook of education policy: international perspectives in a pandemic age

Abstract

<p>Education policy is entering an uncertain future within an indeterminate form of globalization. The sustainability discourse of the last two decades is challenged by global inequality, large-scale migrations, geo-political rivalries driven by conflicts over trade and technology, a planet-wide virus that slowed the global economy, and an irreversible climate change crisis. There is a new urgency to reexamine the educational policy enterprise, its theories and debates, agencies and organizations, successes and failures, borrowings and practices, and how historical trajectories will shape emerging educational policy challenges. The gap between education policy and practice widens, creating favorable circumstances for some and untenable educational conditions for others. The selections in this Handbook illustrate some of the most significant educational policy episodes of the last decade. These not only serve as a guide for policy makers and scholars of educational policy but also explore key tensions that have shaped them, including global interconnectedness and localism, universalism and pluralism, and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.<br></p>