Bloomsbury Interventions in Education Systems: Reform and Development

Interventions in Education Systems draws on data from England, Mexico, Singapore and Finland to illuminate reform processes to education systems in a range of contexts to develop a better understanding of intervention processes and to encourage the development of more sophisticated models for reforming education systems. The authors draw comparisons between policy implementations and interventions in countries with different socio-economic profiles and different levels of development, highlighting how these processes in practice all too frequently get side-tracked and distorted, often unintentionally, by political, economic and social forces. Review "At a time when education policy makers around the world are increasingly reaching for off-the-shelf recipes for raising achievement, this book provides a timely reminder that every education system is unique. Drawing on unique case studies, the authors provide significant new insights into how educational policy and practice is developed in real-life settings. The book deserves to be compulsory reading for all those seeking to understand how to improve their own national education system." --Patricia Broadfoot, Professor of Education, University of Bristol, UK About the Author David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Charles Posner is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, Director of the Instituto de Investigación Educativa y Desarrollo de Nayarit, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Mexico and Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. Christopher Martin is Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and Consultant to education reform programmes with the Ministry of Education, Mexico. He is also Associate Fellow of the Virtual University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Elsa Guzman is a member of the Institute of Adult Education, Mexico.