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A puzzling feature of contemporary education emerges from two widely shared assumptions that are contradictory and incompatible. The first is that modern educational institutions have the same degree of rich diversity as modern airports—in other words, the educational world is becoming flat. The second is that in the educational sphere, global meets local in the way that a wave meets a rocky outcropping. Visible disturbance occurs, but (barring a tsunami) little is changed.
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© 2012 Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen
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Devos, G. et al. (2012). Political Culture and Educational Reform. In: Louis, K.S., van Velzen, B. (eds) Educational Policy in an International Context. Education Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137046758_1
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