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Policy Borrowing in Education: Frameworks for Analysis

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This contribution deals with policy ‘borrowing’ as a phenomenon in comparative inquiry in education, covering how it has developed conceptually and attempting some definitions of what it entails. It describes policy borrowing processes and presents in detail the models developed by Phillips and Ochs as a heuristic device to help with their analysis and interpretation.

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  1. Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford, OX2 6PY, UK

    David Phillips

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  1. Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Joseph Zajda

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Phillips, D. (2015). Policy Borrowing in Education: Frameworks for Analysis. In: Zajda, J. (eds) Second International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9493-0_9

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