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54.019 - Knowledge Mobilization and the Global Politics of Education Reform

Sun, April 30, 12:25 to 1:55pm, San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, Floor: Third Floor, Conference Room 15

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Within the context of globalization, policy entrepreneurs, international organizations and the networks that connect them are increasingly influential in the production and international dissemination of knowledge, particularly when it comes to research knowledge related to privatization or quasi-market reforms in education, though few studies have examined this influence. This panel responds by presenting four papers that characterize and problematize how research is brokered, mediated, and mobilized by such actors, and with what effects and implications. In summary, the panel focuses on (a) the research brokering activity of social science funding agencies in multiple countries, (b) the institutionally-embedded epistemic communities that mobilize pro-privatization education research, and (c) the production and mediating roles of World Bank policy entrepreneurs in promoting quasi-market policies.

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