Tromp, RE;
Datzberger, S;
(2019)
Global Education Policies versus local realities. Insights from Uganda and Mexico.
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
10.1080/03057925.2019.1616163.
(In press).
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Abstract
National education policies often emerge from the global arena. These global policy norms hold the promise that reforms will produce similar education and development outcomes in different contexts. However, research on how and why global education reforms are practised ‘on the ground’ and with what effects is still scant. In this paper, we investigate how two global education agendas, namely Universal Primary Education (UPE) and Competency-Based Education (CBE), are enacted and re-contextualised in Uganda and Mexico. By drawing on data obtained from extensive field research in both countries, we explore how these global policies were translated into practice within their situated, professional, material and external contexts. Our research shows that in both cases the enactment of global policies differed widely from universal agendas. We, therefore, argue that global education norms in education can also reproduce existing inequalities or even lead to new forms of inequalities at the local level.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Global Education Policies versus local realities. Insights from Uganda and Mexico |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057925.2019.1616163 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1616163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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. |
| Keywords: | Global Education Policies, competency-based education, universal primary education, Uganda, Mexico |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10075528 |
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