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Education policy is considered a classic prerogative of the modern nation state. In the twenty-first century, we have seemingly entered a period of transformation of the state toward internationalization in the field of education policy. How do the forces of national legacies and the forces of global universalism interact in times when international organizations (IOs) are designing and implementing concepts for international education policies and trying to shape national education policy outputs? This chapter contends that nation states respond in idiosyncratic ways to the new international influences as a result of pecularities in path-dependencies which determine—what we call— national transformation capacities. Two principle dynamics of development are possible.
This chapter was written at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) in summer 2009. The author is very grateful to the WZB’s President Jutta Allmendinger for the invitation, and owes the librarian Birgit Wobig and to his student Gabriel Bartl much gratitude.
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Weymann, A. (2010). The Educating State—Historical Developments and Current Trends. In: Martens, K., Nagel, AK., Windzio, M., Weymann, A. (eds) Transformation of Education Policy. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281295_3
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