Education, Globalisation and the State

List of Figures - Editors' Foreword - Notes on Contributors - Susan L. Robertson: Roger Dale-Contributions to the State in/of the Sociology of Education - Education and the Capitalist State - Michael W.Apple: Political Concepts that Matter: My Debt to Roger Dale - Madeleine Arnot: Pyrrhic Victory? Learning Lessons about the Potency of Sociology of Education from Its Political History in the UK - Xavier Bonal: Searching and Finding the State in the Sociology of Education: A Tribute to Roger Dale - NicolasLewis: Beyond the Comforts of 'isms': Creative Theorisation of States in Action - Bob Lingard/FazalRizvi: The State of Education Policy: The Policy Sociology of Roger Dale - John Morgan: Schooling and Capitalism Revisited - Education and Development - Mario Novelli: Education and the 'Developing' State: Between Capitalism and Culture - Eve Coxon: The Politics of 'Education for Development' in Peripheral States - Ritesh Shah/Mieke Lopes Cardozo: Rethinking the State and Education in Conflict-Affected Contexts: A Co-Constructed Auto-Ethnography of Supportive Mentorship and Academic Friendship - Globalisation and the Politics of Education - Anja P. Jakobi: Anybody Still Dreaming of the Knowledge Society? On Missing Links between 'Politics' and 'Education' - Nesta Devine: The Irreducible Minimum of Pedagogic Engagement - Michael A. Peters: Critical Cultural Political Economy: Roger Dale 40 Years On - Hugh Lauder/Maria Balarin: The Despair of Global Capitalism- Elizabeth Rata: The History of an Intellectual Dispute at Auckland's School of Education - Challenges of Globalisation for Comparative Education - Antoni Verger: What's in a Mechanism? Specifying and Analysing Global Education Policy through Explanatory Research - António Magalhães/Amélia Veiga: Policy Analysis, Epistemology and Higher Educationism - Daniel Couch: Globalisation and Doctoral Grandbabies: A Focus on Roger Dale, Global Education Policy and Their Mechanisms -

Xavier Bonal is Full Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Special Professor of Education and International Development at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is the director of the research group Globalisation, Education and Social Policies (GEPS) at the UAB and Coordinator of the GLOBED Project, an Erasmus Mundus Master on Education Policies for Global Development.Eve Coxon is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland. A central focus of her work is the role of educational aid in enhancing equitable and sustainable 'education for development'.Mario Novelli is Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, and Director of the Centre for International Education (CIE). Drawing on the tools of critical political economy, his work explores the relationship between education systems and armed conflict; the relationship between education and processes of globalization; and learning and knowledge production in trade union, social movements and civil society organizations.Antoni Verger is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research focuses on the study of the relationship between global governance institutions and education policy, with a focus on the study of public-private partnerships, education privatization and accountability policies in education.