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Soft Governance in Education: Lessons and Prospects

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This chapter elucidates how the present book has contributed to the understanding of the relationship between soft governance and domestic policy-making in terms of convergence toward international scripts. Tonia Bieber reveals that even legally non-binding means of international organizations have proven capable of not only impacting federal education policies but even supporting convergent developments. The results are critically assessed in light of both the book’s theoretical assumptions and insights of alternative literature. The chapter concludes with proposing topics of further research and exploring implications of the findings for research and practice.

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Bieber, T. (2016). Soft Governance in Education: Lessons and Prospects. In: Soft Governance, International Organizations and Education Policy Convergence. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47695-1_9

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