Educational policy, globalisation and organisation
This research programme examines a series of tensions in relation to education, globalization and social change. The key tension is that between the role of education as an engine for economic competitiveness and national wealth creation that results in the production of inequalities between nations, institutions and social groups, and an education whose role is to engender social cohesion and citizenship.
This is played out in relation to
- economic competitiveness and skill
- the relationship of education to the economy
- the government's state theory of learning for competitiveness and inequality
- inequalities in higher education between institutions and social groups
- the global restructuring of credentials and positional competition
- the possibilities for quality education in developing countries
- the nature of, and opportunities for citizenship in a global context
In the last of these, the role of international schools in the creation of ‘global’ citizens and workers is a key research focus of The Centre for the study of Education in an International Context. Many of these areas of research set the context in which educational leaders and managers respond to government initiatives.