Transforming BRICS Education Policy in International Countries

• In Event: International Studies SIG Structure Poster Session

Abstract

South Africa is uniquely positioned within the BRICS global education expansion project. This paper aims to remind the reader of the foundational problems to implementing policy due to constraints such as policy symbolism, policy borrowing, and the challenges facing developing countries. The paper presents a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the challenges and implications associated with the nature of an educational cooperation counter-dependency structure to expand educational reform in a BRICS country and offers an alternative policy approach of policy learning to address policy reform. The paper is highly relevant to contemporary academic discussions on educational policy borrowing, curriculum reform and the socio-political dynamics of education in developing countries.

Author

• Michele Schmidt, Simon Fraser University