Full Description
How do policymakers orient themselves in an era of surplus information? This insightful book presents a multidisciplinary investigation into the growing influence of knowledge brokers and how they utilize data to support education policy and planning.
Contributors examine key actors' roles and strategies, contextual influences, and implications for equity and inclusion in the education sector, giving voice to experts in academia, institutional think tanks and intergovernmental organizations. Illustrating brokerage concepts through distinct cases, it demonstrates that institutional approaches are markedly different, and highlights the ways in which knowledge brokers have been repurposed to bring about social change, signalling a noticeable shift in the global discourse on education governance.
The Rise of Knowledge Brokers in Global Education Governance is a valuable resource for researchers, analysts and planners in global governance, education policy and administration, international relations, political science and policy studies. It is also of interest to policymakers engaging with data and evidence in global education governance.
Contents
Contents
1 Knowledge brokers in education and international cooperation: a typology with blurred boundaries 1
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
2 Navigating the terrain: global knowledge brokering and use in education policy 25
Chanwoong Baek
3 Knowledge exchange for educational progress: the OECD's approach to horizontal policy learning 43
Michael Ward and Melissa Mouthaan
4 Evidence labs in the education sector: a review and early reflection on the Jacobs Foundation journey 77
Samuel Kembou and Donika Dimovska
5 "What works"? Power and politics in studies of evidence use in policy 97
Moira V. Faul, Anna Numa Hopkins and Bart Sebastiaan Gabriel
6 Lessons learned about promoting knowledge production and utilization in low- and middle-income countries 131
Tricia Wind and Margarita López
7 Uptake of research evidence in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova policy and planning decisions 149
Julia Levin, José Luís Benito Canêlhas and Janyl Bokonbaeva
8 Evidence production, promotion, and pollution: private interests and knowledge brokerage in US education policy 173
Christopher Lubienski, Joel Malin and Emma Rowe
9 Knowledge brokerage and global governance: current research trends and future avenues for research 193
Chanwoong Baek and Gita Steiner-Khamsi
10 Can we trust "evidence" in policymaking? 201
Maren Elfert
