eprintid: 10149375
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creators_name: Morris, Paul
creators_name: Park, Choah
creators_name: Auld, Euan
title: Covid and the future of education: global agencies 'building back better'
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, Build Back Better, Covid, Education Futures, Global Agencies, POLICY
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abstract: 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.
date: 2022-05-12
date_type: published
publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2022.2066886
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1958169
doi: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2066886
lyricists_name: Morris, Paul
lyricists_id: PMORR36
actors_name: Morris, Paul
actors_id: PMORR36
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
volume: 52
number: 5
pagerange: 691-711
pages: 21
citation:        Morris, Paul;    Park, Choah;    Auld, Euan;      (2022)    Covid and the future of education: global agencies 'building back better'.                   Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education , 52  (5)   pp. 691-711.    10.1080/03057925.2022.2066886 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2022.2066886>.       Green open access   
 
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