Politics of Quality in Education

The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in Education focuses on Brazil China and Russia part of the so-called emerging nations’ BRICS block and draws on a four-year project to develop a new theoretical and methodological approach.The book builds a comparative sociohistorical and transnational understanding of political relations in education with a particular focus on the policies and practices of Quality Assurance and Evaluation (QAE). Tracking QAE processes from international organisations to individual schools contributors analyse how QAE changes the dynamics in the roles of state expertise and governance. The book demonstrates how national and sub-national actors play a central role in the adaptation modification or rejection of transnational policies.Politics of Quality in Education will be of great interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of comparative and international education as well as educational policy and politics. It should also be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers.The Open Access version of this book available at taylorfrancis/books/e/9781351362528 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.