This volume explores a range of topics and themes that fully investigate global convergences in educational reform policies, ideologies, and practices.

Table of Contents

• – Notes on Contributors
• – Introduction: Toward a Transformational Agenda for Global Education Reform
• – Capitalism and Global Education Reform
• – The Business Sector in Global Education Reform: The Case of the Global Business Coalition for Education
• – Venture Philanthropy and Education Policy-Making: Charity, Profit, and the So-Called “Democratic State”
• – Nodes, Pipelines, and Policy Mobility: The Assembling of an Education Shadow State in India
• – Reframing Teachers’ Work for Global Competitiveness*: New Global Hierarchies in the Governing of Education
• – School Principals in Neoliberal Times: A Case of Luxury Leadership?
• – The Expansion of Private Schooling in Latin America: Multiple Manifestations and Trajectories of a Global Education Reform Movement
• – Global Education Policies and Taken-For-Granted Rationalities: Do the Poor Respond to Policy Incentives in the Same Way?
• – The Politics of Educational Change in the Middle East: Nation-Building, Postcolonial Reconstruction, Destabilized States, Societal Disintegration, and the Dispossessed
• – Profiting from the Poor: The Emergence of Multinational Edu-Businesses in Hyderabad, India
• – The Bait-and-Switch and Echo Chamber of School Privatization in South Africa
• – The Violence of Compassion: Education Reform, Race, and Neoliberalism's Elite Rationale
• – Uncommon Knowledge: International Schools as Elite Educational Enclosures
• – Startup Schools, Fast Policies, and Full-Stack Education Companies: Digitizing Education Reform in Silicon Valley
• – Who Drives the Drivers?: Technology as the Ideology of Global Educational Reform
• – Resurgent Behaviorism and the Rise of Neoliberal Schooling
• – Educating Mathematizable, Self-Serving, God-Fearing, Self-Made Entrepreneurs
• – Putting Homo Economicus to the Test: How Neoliberalism Measures the Value of Educational Life
• – EcoJust STEM Education Mobilized Through Counter-Hegemonic Globalization
• – When the Idea of a Second Grade Education for the Marginalized Becomes the Dominant Discourse: Context, Policy, and Practice of Neoliberal Capitalism
• – Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Education: An Ethics for Capital or the Other?
• – The Socially Just School: Transforming Young Lives
• – Beyond Neoliberalism: Educating for a Just Sustainable Future
• – When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto