Preface: The Globalization-Education Nexus: Social Theory and Comparative Politics PART I: Social Theory, Globalization, and Education Introduction to Part I: Social Theory, Globalization, and Education SECTION I: Culture, Globalization, and Education Chapter 1: Globalization of Nation-States and National Education Projects Chapter 2: An Anthropological Perspective on Globalization and Schooling Chapter 3: Historical Institutionalism in Education and Globalization Chapter 4: Education in a Post-Liberal World Society Chapter 5: World Culture, Education, and Organization Chapter 6: Globalization, New Institutionalisms, and the Political Dimension Chapter 7: Globalization, Cultural Logics, and the Teaching Profession Chapter 8: Higher Education and Organizational Theory: Systems, Fields, Markets, and Populations in an Increasingly Global Context SECTION II: Structural Approaches to Globalization in Education Chapter 9: The Globalisation of Expertise? Epistemic Governance, Quantification, and the Consultocracy Chapter 10: Globalization, Personalization, and the Learning Apparatus Chapter 11: Field Theory Beyond the Nation State Chapter 12: Inclusive Education, Globalization, and New Philosophical Perspectives on Social Justice Chapter 13: Globalization, uncertainty and the returns to education over the life course in modern societies Chapter 14: Globalization of Education and the Sociology of Elites Chapter 15: Mobilizing Whiteness: Race, Futurity, and Globalization of Higher Education SECTION III: Systems Theory, Globalization, and Education Chapter 16: Education in a Functionally Differentiated World Society Chapter 17: Education Reform as a Global Phenomenon Chapter 18: The Rats under the Rug: The Morphogenesis of Education in a Global Context Chapter 19: Redrawing what Counts as Education: The Impact of the Global Early Childhood Education Program on German Kindergarten Chapter 20: The University as a World Organization Chapter 21: Small Worlds: Homeschooling and the Modern Family PART II: Policy Challenges and Implications of Global Pressures on National Education Systems Introduction: Global, National, and Local Scales of Governance in Education Policy SECTION IV: International Organizations and Education Policy Chapter 22: The Expansion of Education in and Across International Organizations Chapter 23: The OECD's Boundary Work in Education in the United States and Brazil: A Historical Comparative Analysis of Two Federal States Chapter 24: Playing God: Education Data Visualizations and the Art of World-Making SECTION V: The Responses of National Education Systems to Global Pressures Chapter 25: The PISA Pendulum: Political Discourse and Education Reform in the Age of Global Reference Societies Chapter 26: Why Globalization Hardly Affects Education Systems: A Historical Institutionalist View Chapter 27: Policy Advice and Policy Advisory Systems in Education Chapter 28: The Formation and Development of a Norwegian Accountability System SECTION VI: The Massification of Secondary Education Chapter 29: Diffusion of Mass Education: Pathways to Isomorphism Chapter 30: The Politics of Equality in Secondary Education Across Wealthy Post-War Democracies Chapter 31: Examining the Impact of Educational Reforms on Schooling and Competences in PIAAC Chapter 32: Educational Expansion and Inequality: School in Italy in the Second Part of the XX Century SECTION VII: Globalization of Higher Education and Science Chapter 33: Can Non-Western Countries Escape from Catch-up Modernity? The Troubling Case of Japan's Education Reforms in a Global Era Chapter 34: The Global Scale in Higher Education and Research Chapter 35: The Globalization of Science: The Increasing Power of Individual Scientists Chapter 36: China's Responses to Globalization and Higher Education Reforms: Challenges and Policy Implications Chapter 37: On Reforming Higher Education in India Chapter 38: The Rehabilitation of the Concept of Public Good: Reappraising the Attacks from Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism from a Poststructuralist Perspective SECTION VIII: Latin America Chapter 39: Educational Challenges in Latin America: An Outline from Conquest to COVID Chapter 40: Technocrats and Unions in the Politics of Reforming Teacher Careers in Colombia and Peru Chapter 41: Subnational Variations in Education and Policy Innovation in Argentina Chapter 42: Economic Globalization and Evolution of Education Spending in the Brazilian Federation 2013-2019 Chapter 43: Does Globalization Reward Education? Evidence from Mexico Chapter 44: Factious Education Politics in Chile 1981-2021: Enduring Contention over Privatization, Inequality, and Quality

This volume is the result of an extraordinary effort to theorize the globalization-state-education nexus. Informed by social theory and comparative politics, the Handbook on Education and Globalization digs deep into the configuration of modern education systems and the changing nature of educational reform. Offering vital theoretical and empirical insights, is a must-read for those seeking to expand their knowledge about educational change in an increasingly interdependent world.

"This volume is the result of an extraordinary effort to theorize the globalization-state-education nexus. Informed by social theory and comparative politics, the Handbook on Education and Globalization digs deep into the configuration of modern education systems and the changing nature of educational reform. Offering vital theoretical and empirical insights, is a must-read for those seeking to expand their knowledge about educational change in an increasingly interdependent world." -- Antoni Verger, Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "This new Handbook brings together leading scholars for a state-of-the art discussion of educational systems in a rapidly globalizing world. The collection covers an impressive array of topics through the lenses of social theory and comparative politics. The variety of explanatory approaches as well as the historical and geographical breadth of the chapters makes this Handbook an essential and unrivaled instrument for understanding the transformation of a key institutional domain of our societies." -- Professor Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Political Science, University of Milan "The Handbook is a must-read for those interested in Latin American educational provisions' geographical and historical variations. The chapters discuss larger topics such as the state's role, contentious politics, and the multi-level implementation of national policies. Highlighting the critical roles played by teachers' unions, technocratic elites, and students' movements, the politics of education policies is analyzed against the backdrop of globalization and exogenous crises such as the 2019 COVID pandemic." -- Julieta Suárez Cao, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile "The Handbook editors managed to assemble the best thinkers in the social sciences to forcefully counter theoretical nationalism in education. Traditionally a project of the nation-state, education has reinvented itself as a project of globalization. How has this new project changed the roles of the state, the professional and the learner? The book transcends the Anglo-centric preoccupation with globalization theories and helps surface the important scholarly debates on the topic that occur in different parts of the world." -- Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Comparative and International Education, Columbia University

Paola Mattei, PhD is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Xavier Dumay, PhD is Professor of Education at UCLouvain, Belgium. His research interests include the globalization of education and educational policies, new-institutional theory, global politics, and changing forms of education. Eric Mangez, PhD is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he teaches social theory, research method, and political sociology. His earlier work dealt with the sociology of the curriculum, education policies and family-school relations. Jacqueline Behrend, PhD is Professor of Political Science at the School of Politics and Government of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Argentina and a tenured Research Fellow at the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.

Selling point: Reflects social theory and political science approaches to the relation between globalization and education Selling point: Presents cutting-edge research in comparative politics on education and provides evidence from different empirical cases at global, national and local levels Selling point: Offers a synthetic and comparative presentation of key social theories of globalization of education