Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this
review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education. The …

Since post-World War II and especially throughout the 1990s, the globalization of a liberal
international order propelled a wave of education reforms around the world. However …

After the declaration of lifelong learning as the Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015,
lifelong learning has become a new policy bandwagon. However, whether investment of …

National governments rely on human rights and human capital rationales to justify why they
seek to improve education through reform. Human rights discourse emphasizes a legal and …

Each year two million secondary-school students across West Africa sit coordinated exams.
Pass rates fluctuate enormously, fueling speculation about cheating and short-term policy …

The World Bank's (WB) growing emphasis on decentralizing educational systems has
sparked widespread discussion in the literature. This study examines whether WB reforms …

Studies using cross-country comparisons argue that the benefits of parental involvement
depend on the educational setting in which it exists. However, contextual and cultural …

In a world characterized by a formal global consensus on norms of “Education for All,”
countries face growing social pressures to rationalize their educational institutions around a …

The triumphant diffusion of the nation state as blueprint or model has impacted the world,
generating the “age of nation-states”(Weitz, 2019). This is also the “world educational …

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