TY  - JOUR
N2  - Framed by the mantra of ?Building back Better? (BBB) the Covid-19 Pandemic has inspired myriad proposals to transform education systems for the future. We interrogate the phrase ?building back better?, focusing on its origins and application within crisis narratives. We analyse responses to the pandemic published by influential global agencies focusing on their agendas and visions for the future of education. We identify the common and divergent elements in their narratives, illustrating how the crisis was used to promote each organisation?s specific interests, and how these narratives were sustained through strategic silences and the selective use of evidence. Whilst the pandemic was used to promote the different longstanding agendas of those agencies, we argue that overall it was used to constrain the future as a privatised techno-utopia, rather than build towards a new vision.
VL  - 52
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
ID  - discovery10149375
AV  - public
JF  - Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
EP  - 711
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2022.2066886
SP  - 691
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Education & Educational Research
KW  -  Build Back Better
KW  -  Covid
KW  -  Education Futures
KW  -  Global Agencies
KW  -  POLICY
TI  - Covid and the future of education: global agencies 'building back better'
IS  - 5
A1  - Morris, Paul
A1  - Park, Choah
A1  - Auld, Euan
PB  - ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Y1  - 2022/05/12/
ER  -