Interventions in Education Systems

David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.Charles Posner was Visiting Fellow at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, Founding Director of the Instituto de Investigación Educativa y Desarrollo de Nayarit, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Mexico and Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. Christopher Martin is Visiting Fellow at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, and Consultant to education reform programmes with the Ministry of Education, Mexico. He is also Associate Fellow of the Virtual University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Elsa Guzman is a member of the Institute of Adult Education, Mexico,

This book is full of resources for educational planners. It contributes ... very illustrative examples which illuminate both discussion of scholarship and planning, and the implementation of educational reforms.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Education Reforms1. Implementation Myopia2. Internal Changes and the Workings of Education Systems3. A History of International Organisations in Education4. Corporative Change in Mexico5. Experiments and Interventions in the English Education System 6. Statism and the Singapore Model7. Finland’s Education RevolutionConclusion: How Education Systems WorkNotesReferencesIndex