Antoni Verger
Biographic Data
| ID | 385755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoni Verger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoni |
| FAMILY NAME | Verger |
| SIGNATURE | VERGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3255-7703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Testing beyond accountability
National large-scale assessments (NLSAs) have become key monitoring instruments in education systems worldwide, yet their policy roles are often examined primarily through the lens of test-based accountability. This paper makes the case for analysing NLSAs as policy instruments in their own right – considering their accountability implications, but not reducing them to such purposes – to better understand their diverse functions and effects. Draw…
They Are Born, Age, and Survive
Although the role of international organizations in the diffusion of education policy is widely acknowledged, their role in the articulation of policy ideas remains comparatively underresearched. This article addresses this gap through a case study on the role of the OECD in the construction of the School Autonomy with Accountability policy model—a governance approach that grants schools greater decision-making capacity in exchange for more inten…
Against imposition, we defend education
Between 2011 and 2015, at the dawn of the global financial crisis, Spain went through severe austerity measures that led to social unrest and to the emergence of new expressions of collective action. In the educational field, teachers’ unions and grassroots movements organised against the neoliberal and neoconservative policies promoted by the central government and several regional governments. The case of the Teachers’ Assembly in the Balearic …
Researching Global Education Policy
This book explores a wide diversity of approaches to help understand the policy movement phenomena, providing a useful guide on global studies in education, as well as insights into the future of this dynamic area of work.
Researching Global Education Policy
Researching Global Education Policy
Researching Global Education Policy
Understanding the Stakes
Under test-based accountability, side-effects —including practices to inflate test results, often seen as cheating—are usually associated to so-called high-stakes policies. However, the influence of different types of stakes in the generation of this type of practices has been overlooked in education research. Based on a survey experiment, our results indicate that the type and level of stakes of accountability systems (e.g., high- vs. low-stakes…
School Governance Through Performance-Based Accountability
Performance-based accountability (PBA) has gained popularity worldwide due to its promise to strengthen the effectiveness and equity of educational systems. Nonetheless, its implementation does not always generate the expected reactions within schools. Through a configurative review, we systematically reviewed 133 empirical studies focusing on PBA side effects. We provide novel insights into the literature on PBA side effects, generating a better…
Researching Global Education Policy
Unveiling teachers’ work preferences
School governance reforms have changed teachers’ work in many aspects and have been associated with increasing teachers’ discontent and demotivation. Research on which school policies and organizational practices teachers prefer is scarce and faces challenges. Our conjoint experiment identifies the importance given by teachers to different work dimensions altered by recent reforms and teachers’ preferences regarding school policies in three conte…
Catholic Schools in the Marketplace
Despite controversies surrounding faith-based schooling, religious schools continue to play a prominent role in numerous education systems. Nonetheless, empirical research on nonstate religious schools operating in a market context remains limited and fragmented. On the one hand, while religious and cultural studies investigate the evolution of religious education (RE), they tend to focus on state schools while overlooking the impact of market fo…
The obstacle race to educational improvement
Contemporary educational reforms emphasise school autonomy, performance-based management, and accountability as necessary policies for attaining improvement goals. Despite their widespread adoption, the configuration and enactment of these policies are discretionary and contingent, deeply influenced by the interaction of local contexts, organisational features, and teachers' beliefs about policy and pedagogy. Apart from these challenges, schools …
Del discurso pedagógico a la política
La innovación educativa ocupa un lugar central en el discurso pedagógico contemporáneo. La innovación se asocia a la introducción de mejoras educativas de distinta naturaleza, pero también, y en un sentido más amplio, a la configuración de la escuela como institución educativa moderna. A pesar de que tiende a ser concebida como un proceso bottom-up, e incluso espontaneo, la innovación educativa ha adquirido una gran centralidad en la agenda públi…
Regional policy trajectories in the Spanish education system
Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different regions have not been immune to the influence of global policy ideas that gear around promoting private …
Nuevos movimientos sociales en tiempos de conservadurismo y austeridad
Durante la legislatura autonómica 2011-2015, el sector educativo de las Islas Balears se vio inmerso en un profundo proceso de reforma educativa que combinó la aplicación de estrictas políticas de austeridad con un ambicioso plan de reforma del modelo lingüístico. Como resultado de estas reformas surgieron nuevos actores colectivos y redes de acción conflictiva, y estalló un conflicto sin precedentes en el campo educativo balear, que culminó con …
At the crossroad of performativity and the market
School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools experience such pressures unevenly and address them through different responses. The paper develops a…
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has become a common feature in a number of OECD countries. The expansion of public subsidies for privately owned schools has consequences that go far beyond the involvement of private actors in the provision of education. These include deepening forms of regulatory governance in educational systems and the blurring of frontiers between public and priv…
Teacher autonomy in the age of performance-based accountability
In recent decades, the governance of educational systems has experienced dramatic changes in many countries. Schools have been given more autonomy whilst being held increasingly accountable at the central level through standardized testing and other forms of external evaluation. The mechanisms of performance-based accountability (PBA) and the consequences attached to test results vary. In high-stakes systems, teachers’ careers are more directly c…
Digitalization and beyond
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy reforms to face the challenges posed by the crisis. Based on international and European countries’ polic…
Comparing high-performing education systems
Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the…
Teachers and the Teaching Profession in Global Education Policy Theory
The business of policy
This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and fragmentary. Furthermore, existing categorizations of corporate policy-influence strategies are freque…
Global governance through peer review
This paper seeks to better understand the influence of international organizations within the national policy domain by examining the OECD's use of peer reviews. Focusing on one such review in the Netherlands, it asks: why are these reviews commissioned, who is involved, how are ideas about educational governance promoted, and how do they impact national policy. Data comes from interviews with OECD and ministry of education members who were centr…
How and why policy design matters
Despite Public-Private Partnerships’ (PPPs) growing popularity within education policy circles, research on their effects yields contradictory results. The understanding of PPP effects is limited by the prevalence of generalist analyses that neglect to acknowledge the exceptional heterogeneity of the policy frameworks in which PPPs crystallize. Building on a scoping literature review, this paper aims at identifying patterns of effects of main PPP…
Nueva gestión pública y educación
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into multiple policy outcomes. This paper aims at understanding why and how education privatization unfolds…
The rise of international large-scale assessments and rationales for participation
This Forum discusses the significant growth of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) since the mid-1990s. Addey and Sellar's contribution outlines a framework of rationales for participating in ILSAs and examines the multiple localised meanings attached to ILSA participation. This framework is discussed under seven headings: (1) evidence for policy; (2) technical capacity building; (3) funding and aid; (4) international relations; (5) nat…
The World Bank and the global governance of education in a changing world order
The emerging global education industry
This paper addresses the rise and consequences of an emerging global education industry (GEI), which represents new forms of private, for profit involvement in education across the globe. The paper explores the emergence within the GEI of new and varied, largely transnational, markets in education by focusing on three examples of the GEI at work. The first example addresses the issue of Charter Schools, what they have come to represent, how they …
How and why policy design matters
Despite Public-Private Partnerships’ (PPPs) growing popularity within education policy circles, research on their effects yields contradictory results. The understanding of PPP effects is limited by the prevalence of generalist analyses that neglect to acknowledge the exceptional heterogeneity of the policy frameworks in which PPPs crystallize. Building on a scoping literature review, this paper aims at identifying patterns of effects of main PPP…
New public management as a global education policy
In the education sector, new public management (NPM) has crystallized in policies such as school autonomy, professionalization of school principals, standardized evaluation and teachers’ accountability, and it has been widely disseminated by international organizations, such as the OECD, which enjoy a great prestige when it comes to frame education reforms in European countries.This article analyses the way NPM has been constructed as a global ed…
Learning from all? The World Bank, aid agencies and the construction of hegemony in education for development
This paper explores the nature and quality of the participation that characterises the Bank's consultations with external actors and examines the extent to which the Bank is responsive to such feedback when it comes to defining its policy preferences and strategies in the education domain. It draws on a case study of the participatory process that was organised around the definition of the last World Bank Education Strategy (WBES2020) and focuses…
A origem das parcerias público-privada na governança global da educação
Durante a última década, a globalização da governança educacional por meio de parcerias público-privadas (PPP) tem gerado considerável debate quanto ao seu significado, propósito, status e resultados. Este debate é particularmente aquecido no setor da educação por causa da ampla aceitação da educação como atividade complexa, social e política que deve permanecer, em grande parte, se não totalmente, no setor público, servindo a interesses públicos…
Reforming governance through policy instruments
In the last decades, most countries have adopted data-intensive policy instruments aimed at modernizing the governance of education systems, and strengthening their competitiveness. Instruments such as national large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities have disseminated widely, to the point that they are being enacted in countries with very different administrative traditions and levels of economic development. Nonetheless, comparat…
Framing and selling global education policy
Public–private partnerships in education (ePPP) are acquiring increasing centrality in the agendas of international organizations and development agencies dealing with educational affairs. They are designed as an opportunity to correct inefficiencies in the public delivery of education and to mobilize new resources to increase the access to and cost-effectiveness of education in low-income contexts. This article explores the emergence of ePPP as …
Digitalization and beyond
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy reforms to face the challenges posed by the crisis. Based on international and European countries’ polic…
A política educacional global
This paper reflects on the main conceptual and theoretical components of global education policy as an emerging field of studies. Global education policy research looks at how global education agendas are being constituted, and by whom, and what are the implications of global dynamics of a different nature in the promotion of education policy change. Globalization produces multiple effects, both direct and indirect, on education policy systems. G…
Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation
La trayectoria de una reforma educativa global
La Nueva Gestión Pública (NGP) es un programa de reforma del sector público que ha inspirado numerosos procesos de reforma educativa a nivel internacional. En el campo de la educación, la NGP ha cristalizado en políticas como la autonomía de centro, la profesionalización de las direcciones escolares, la evaluación estandarizada y los sistemas de rendición de cuentas de los docentes. En este artículo se analiza cómo y por qué la NGP ha sido adopta…
The governance of higher education regionalisation
The article analyses two processes of higher education regionalisation, MERCOSUR‐Educativo in Latin America and the Bologna Process in Europe, from a comparative perspective. The comparative analysis is centered on the content and the governance of both processes and, specifically, on the reasons of their uneven evolution and implementation. We support the comparison by using theories of governance and globalisation/regionalisation. We also focus…
Comparing high-performing education systems
Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the…
Homecoming as displacement
International mobility is a growing phenomenon in which academicians are highly represented. While studies on transnationalism have widely focused on the mobility of people in terms of migrancy and exile, homecoming has been much less studied. This article contributes to filling this gap by analysing the homecoming experiences of three social scientists who have coincided in a Catalan university. The narrative of their personal trajectories and e…
EFA, civil society and the post-2015 agenda
View correction statement: COMPARE Forum: EFA, civil society and the post-2015 agenda Notes 1. The views presented in the Forum are those of the authors and do not represent any official institutional position. 2. For example, Adams (Citation2012) reviews proposals by the Overseas Development Institute, UN Conference on Sustainable Development Goals, The Center for International Governance Innovation and others. 3. With some exceptions emerging, …
Measuring educational liberalisation. A global analysis of Gats
In this article, we examine the process of trade liberalisation of educational services in the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Specifically, we analyse the factors that influence the undertaking of commitments on educational liberalisation by the member countries of the WTO. The text is divided into three parts. In the first, we examine in detail the methodology of GATS negotia…
At the crossroad of performativity and the market
School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools experience such pressures unevenly and address them through different responses. The paper develops a…
Network analysis, education policy, and international development
La economía política de la privatización educativa
A lo largo de las dos ltimas dcadas, la privatizacin educativa ha adquirido una dimensin global. Un amplio nmero de pases en circunstancias polticas y econmicas muy distintas han adoptado polticas que promueven la participacin del sector privado en el campo educativo. El objetivo de este artculo es explorar por qu y cmo estas polticas han avanzado con tanta intensidad. Desde una perspectiva de la economa poltica de la reforma educativa, el artcul…
Human development vis-à-vis free trade
Since intellectual property rights (IPRs) and services were introduced to the international trade regime, state regulation on development sensitive issues such as access to education and medicines is directly affected by multilateral and bilateral trade agreements. By adopting a global governance analytical approach to trade politics and a comparative research strategy, the article shows, on the one hand, how national positions on trade in educat…
Gats and Higher Education
La influencia externa en las políticas educativas de Argentina, Brasil y Chile (1990-2006)
El objetivo del artículo es analizar el papel que juega la influencia internacional en el diseño y aplicación de políticas educativas en el Cono Sur. Específicamente pretende explorar el proceso a través del cual las ideas, recomendaciones y metas globales modelan las políticas educativas latinoamericanas. Para ello, el artículo se centra en el programa de Educación para Todos y en el Acuerdo General de Comercio de Servicios, analizando los mecan…
Economía política de la educación en tiempos de austeridad
Muchos gobiernos europeos, especialmente en el Sur de Europa, han adoptado políticas de austeridad como respuesta común a la crisis económica y financiera internacional. Los recortes en el ámbito social han afectado a los presupuestos educativos y han obligado a los Estados a gestionar la crisis con estrategias políticas y discursivas. Este artículo desarrolla un análisis crítico sobre cómo el Estado español y el gobierno catalán en particular ha…
Movimientos en el escenario global
En este artículo pretendemos incidir en los repertorios de acción colectiva desencadenados a raíz de la creación de la OMC y del establecimiento de uno de sus acuerdos más polémicos por sus efectos en los sistemas educativos y en otros servicios públicos: elAcuerdo General de Comercio de Servicios —AGCS—. Para llevarlo a cabo hemos considerado varias perspectivas teóricas con las que responder, de la manera más adecuada posible, a diferentes prob…
Measuring educational liberalisation. A global analysis of Gats
In this article, we examine the process of trade liberalisation of educational services in the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Specifically, we analyse the factors that influence the undertaking of commitments on educational liberalisation by the member countries of the WTO. The text is divided into three parts. In the first, we examine in detail the methodology of GATS negotia…
Gats and Higher Education
The governance of higher education regionalisation
The article analyses two processes of higher education regionalisation, MERCOSUR‐Educativo in Latin America and the Bologna Process in Europe, from a comparative perspective. The comparative analysis is centered on the content and the governance of both processes and, specifically, on the reasons of their uneven evolution and implementation. We support the comparison by using theories of governance and globalisation/regionalisation. We also focus…
Making sense of the Gats debate
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization has generated an intense and passionate debate about the relationship between free-trade and education and, specifically, about the effects of trade liberalization in national education systems. This article explores in detail this debate from a critical discourse and semiotic approach. Its objective is two-fold. First, it aims at identifying and systematizing the c…
"La estrategia educativa 2020 o las limitaciones del Banco Mundial para promover el "aprendizaje para todos
LA NUEVA Estrategia Educativa 2020 del Banco Mundial establece las prioridades de reforma educativa en países en vías de desarrollo para la década siguiente. El título explícito de la estrategia, Aprendizaje para Todos, es un claro reconocimiento de que, más allá de políticas centradas en el acceso, se debe hacer algo más para asegurar que la educación derive en experiencias positivas de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, como este artículo sostiene, las …
Public Private Partnerships in Education
Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the "state" and the "market," PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best minds in education policy, political economy, and development studies. They convincingly argue that public private partnership represents a new mode of governance that ranges from covert support of the private sector (vou…
Human development vis-à-vis free trade
Since intellectual property rights (IPRs) and services were introduced to the international trade regime, state regulation on development sensitive issues such as access to education and medicines is directly affected by multilateral and bilateral trade agreements. By adopting a global governance analytical approach to trade politics and a comparative research strategy, the article shows, on the one hand, how national positions on trade in educat…
EFA, civil society and the post-2015 agenda
View correction statement: COMPARE Forum: EFA, civil society and the post-2015 agenda Notes 1. The views presented in the Forum are those of the authors and do not represent any official institutional position. 2. For example, Adams (Citation2012) reviews proposals by the Overseas Development Institute, UN Conference on Sustainable Development Goals, The Center for International Governance Innovation and others. 3. With some exceptions emerging, …
Framing and selling global education policy
Public–private partnerships in education (ePPP) are acquiring increasing centrality in the agendas of international organizations and development agencies dealing with educational affairs. They are designed as an opportunity to correct inefficiencies in the public delivery of education and to mobilize new resources to increase the access to and cost-effectiveness of education in low-income contexts. This article explores the emergence of ePPP as …
Pedagogising poverty alleviation
For the last decades international organisations and governments have promoted and implemented analogous education policies on the grounds that education is the key factor to foster development and fight poverty. This article sets the context of these educational programmes and analyses their discourse on poverty in Argentina and Chile. Then, it shows how they institutionalise strict surveillance, institutional denigration of the poor and profess…
A origem das parcerias público-privada na governança global da educação
Durante a última década, a globalização da governança educacional por meio de parcerias público-privadas (PPP) tem gerado considerável debate quanto ao seu significado, propósito, status e resultados. Este debate é particularmente aquecido no setor da educação por causa da ampla aceitação da educação como atividade complexa, social e política que deve permanecer, em grande parte, se não totalmente, no setor público, servindo a interesses públicos…
New public management as a global education policy
In the education sector, new public management (NPM) has crystallized in policies such as school autonomy, professionalization of school principals, standardized evaluation and teachers’ accountability, and it has been widely disseminated by international organizations, such as the OECD, which enjoy a great prestige when it comes to frame education reforms in European countries.This article analyses the way NPM has been constructed as a global ed…
The World Bank and the global governance of education in a changing world order
Learning from all? The World Bank, aid agencies and the construction of hegemony in education for development
This paper explores the nature and quality of the participation that characterises the Bank's consultations with external actors and examines the extent to which the Bank is responsive to such feedback when it comes to defining its policy preferences and strategies in the education domain. It draws on a case study of the participatory process that was organised around the definition of the last World Bank Education Strategy (WBES2020) and focuses…
Homecoming as displacement
International mobility is a growing phenomenon in which academicians are highly represented. While studies on transnationalism have widely focused on the mobility of people in terms of migrancy and exile, homecoming has been much less studied. This article contributes to filling this gap by analysing the homecoming experiences of three social scientists who have coincided in a Catalan university. The narrative of their personal trajectories and e…
La trayectoria de una reforma educativa global
La Nueva Gestión Pública (NGP) es un programa de reforma del sector público que ha inspirado numerosos procesos de reforma educativa a nivel internacional. En el campo de la educación, la NGP ha cristalizado en políticas como la autonomía de centro, la profesionalización de las direcciones escolares, la evaluación estandarizada y los sistemas de rendición de cuentas de los docentes. En este artículo se analiza cómo y por qué la NGP ha sido adopta…
Nueva gestión pública y educación
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
World Yearbook of Education 2016
The Handbook of Global Education Policy
This chapter provides a short overview on the history of global Education For All (EFA) efforts, progress in achieving the six EFA goals, and international aid for EFA policies. It shows that, despite modest movement in achieving the EFA goals, some of it due to explicit policies and actions undertaken by governments, international agencies, donors and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) since Dakar, the progress has been uneven. Much of the br…
Handbook of Global Education Policy
Privatización educativa y globalización
Privatización educativa y globalización: una realidad poliédrica
Private actors and the right to education
Privatisation of education is on the rise, being offered as the best alternative to achieve universal education and improve its quality and cost-efficiency. However, the benefits of the entry of pr
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