International Perprctives on Education and Society -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Theoretical Relations -- Chapter 1. International educational governance models and national policy convergence -- Internationalized educational decision-making -- The globalization of educational governance -- The potential for policy convergence -- Understanding international educational governance and policy convergence -- References -- Chapter 2. Cultural political economy and the international governance of education: A theoretical framework -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural political economy -- 3. Cultural political economy and the European Union -- 4. European Union education policy -- 5. Cultural political economy and the international governance of education -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. Regime theory and educational governance: The emergence of an international education regime -- Educational governance in transformation -- Theoretical perspective and analytical categories: institutional theory and governance -- International regimes and the emerging IER -- Conclusion: How to investigate an emerging educational regime -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. The morphodynamics of modern education systems: On the relation between governance and governmentality as analytical tool in explaining current transformations -- Education and the state: a modern nexus -- Education and the state: characteristics of a modern relation -- The state, pedagogy, and the school -- The twenty-first century educational challenge and its relation to governance -- Transnational governance -- Education and trans-state: A modern nexus -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5. Governmentality revisited: Bourdieu meets Foucault -- Preliminary remarks and framing -- Commonalities and differences.

Reconstruction and new application -- Intentionality and anonymity -- Materiality and corporeality -- State and economy -- Outlook -- References -- Part II: Themes and Issues -- Chapter 6. Marketing hope: Private institutions preparing students for the university entrance examination in Turkey -- Entrance to higher education -- Commercialization of education -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Semantic shifts only? The ascension of the manager in the German education system -- Introduction -- The impact of the new governance regime -- Professionalism, professionality, and professionalization -- Sensemaking among educators -- The imposition of techno-logic -- The technification of educational production -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8. Educational monitoring and reporting as governance instruments for evidence-based education policy -- A new analytical perspective: Educational governance -- A new policy arena: The emergence of a transnational multilevel educational space -- Influential policy actors in transnational educational space: EU and OECD -- New instruments of educational governance -- Educational monitoring and reporting as instruments of educational governance -- Empirical findings on the effects of educational monitoring and reporting as instruments of educational governance -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Modes and Areas -- Chapter 9. Toward a postbureaucratic regulation regime of schools? Some questions and evidence from the European Reguleduc research -- Introduction -- Multiregulation and governance -- Reguleduc research -- Supranational models and national educational policies -- Convergences of regulations: Their genesis at the grassroots of systems -- Advantages of a ''multilevel'' comparative analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10. Evaluation of higher education in Brazil: Rationale and goals.

Institutional types and stratification in higher education in Brazil -- The consolidation of higher education evaluation in Brazil -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11. Global Governance in Social Work -- An example: Social work on the streets -- Governance building - capacity building -- Impact of social movements and normativity -- On the relation between governance and the role of research -- Notes -- References -- About the authors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.