Kerstin Martens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4404973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerstin Martens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerstin |
| FAMILY NAME | Martens |
| SIGNATURE | MARTENS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: How international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education
The integration of migrants and refugees (M&R) into national education systems is crucial for their societal and economic inclusion and has been a cornerstone in the global education agenda. In this study, we examine how international organisations (IOs) shape the discourse on M&R education policies. We analyse how IOs frame M&R education across different organisational clusters, by employing Sociological Institutionalism (SI) and Organisational …
Education policy between persistence and change: Grand transformations processes and cultural spheres in the case of Cambodia
In this study, we aim to understand how international influences, moderated by cultural spheres, impact the inclusiveness of education and support generosity for individuals’ education in the long durée. The two grand and globally significant political transformation processes we focus on are (de)colonization and socialism. We also analyze how current multilateralism exerted through international organizations (IOs) in the post-WW2 order affects …
Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement
Global Pathways to Education: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations
This OA volume identifies developmental trajectories in education systems and investigates the causes of change from a global and historical perspective.
International Organizations in Global Social Governance
This volume enhances our understanding of IOs in global social governance by providing studies of the social policy fields in which they operate
Global Pathways to Education: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations
Explaining Policy Convergence and Polity Divergence in Federal Systems: German and Swiss Higher Education Revisited
This article explores higher education reforms in the federally organized education systems of Germany and Switzerland. We argue that the increasing internationalization of education—spearheaded by the Bologna Process—has brought about changes not only in higher education policy, but also led to significant reconfigurations of the higher education polity. These processes present an empirical puzzle: while higher education policies in both systems…
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the diverse actors and agencies involved in global social governance and seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy.
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance
The introduction paves the way for an actor-centred approach to global social governance. The chapter highlights the necessity to think beyond existing conceptualizations and approaches, by combining different analytical tools from social policy, international relations, global governance research and comparative politics research. Different notions of agency and governance mechanisms at the disposal of different groups of actors are introduced, …
Grenzenlose Bildungspolitik? Empirische Evidenz für Pisa als weltweites Leitbild für nationale Bildungsreformen
The Bologna Process as a template for transnational policy coordination
The Bologna Process (BP) presents the largest ongoing reform initiative in higher education (HE). Although it has triggered large-scale changes in HE structures in Europe, comparative analysis about its impact on other regions of the world is scarce. Using transnational communication and sociological institutionalism as a theoretical framework, this article investigates the impact of the BP on the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribb…
Towards an education approach à la finlandaise ? French education policy after Pisa
In this article, we address whether international student comparisons have changed the dynamics of French secondary education policy. We focus on the increasingly significant impact of the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD)’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) on France, a country previously known for its aversion to international comparisons and its turbulent relationship with the OECD. We argue that not …
Mechanisms of OECD governance: International Incentives for National Policy-Making?
'Mechanisms of OECD Governance' analyses the influential but under-studied Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields and provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization.
Pisa — Internationalisierung von Bildungspolitik. Oder: Wie kommt die Landespolitik zur OECD
Small country, big business? New Zealand as education exporter
This paper discusses New Zealand’s role in the global market for tertiary education. The internationalisation and liberalisation of education markets is progressing rapidly in today’s globalising world, as reflected by the incorporation of education as a service into the GATS framework. Through the example of New Zealand as a case study for the internationalisation of education services, the study depicts the way the government is involved in thi…
New Arenas of Education Governance
Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs)
Nichtregierungsorganisationen haben sich zu wichtigen Akteuren der nationalen und internationalen Politik entwickelt. Diese EinfÃ1⁄4hrung bietet einen ersten Zugang und einen à berblick zum Thema
Paradoxien der Neuen Staatsräson. Die Internationalisierung der Bildungspolitik in der EU und der OECD
Mission Impossible? Defining Nongovernmental Organizations
This paper provides a synopsis of current interpretations of the term “nongovernmental organization” (NGO). Although NGOs have become recognized actors in international affairs, particularly over the last decade, it has not yet been clearly defined what the term NGO encompasses. It is argued that two major tracks of NGO interpretations can be distinguished: the juridical approach, and the sociological perspective. In juridical studies, the emphas…
Mission Impossible? Defining Nongovernmental Organizations
This paper provides a synopsis of current interpretations of the term “nongovernmental organization” (NGO). Although NGOs have become recognized actors in international affairs, particularly over the last decade, it has not yet been clearly defined what the term NGO encompasses. It is argued that two major tracks of NGO interpretations can be distinguished: the juridical approach, and the sociological perspective. In juridical studies, the emphas…
Towards an education approach à la finlandaise ? French education policy after Pisa
In this article, we address whether international student comparisons have changed the dynamics of French secondary education policy. We focus on the increasingly significant impact of the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD)’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) on France, a country previously known for its aversion to international comparisons and its turbulent relationship with the OECD. We argue that not …
Small country, big business? New Zealand as education exporter
This paper discusses New Zealand’s role in the global market for tertiary education. The internationalisation and liberalisation of education markets is progressing rapidly in today’s globalising world, as reflected by the incorporation of education as a service into the GATS framework. Through the example of New Zealand as a case study for the internationalisation of education services, the study depicts the way the government is involved in thi…
Paradoxien der Neuen Staatsräson. Die Internationalisierung der Bildungspolitik in der EU und der OECD
The Bologna Process as a template for transnational policy coordination
The Bologna Process (BP) presents the largest ongoing reform initiative in higher education (HE). Although it has triggered large-scale changes in HE structures in Europe, comparative analysis about its impact on other regions of the world is scarce. Using transnational communication and sociological institutionalism as a theoretical framework, this article investigates the impact of the BP on the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribb…
Mission Impossible? Defining Nongovernmental Organizations
This paper provides a synopsis of current interpretations of the term “nongovernmental organization” (NGO). Although NGOs have become recognized actors in international affairs, particularly over the last decade, it has not yet been clearly defined what the term NGO encompasses. It is argued that two major tracks of NGO interpretations can be distinguished: the juridical approach, and the sociological perspective. In juridical studies, the emphas…
Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs)
Nichtregierungsorganisationen haben sich zu wichtigen Akteuren der nationalen und internationalen Politik entwickelt. Diese EinfÃ1⁄4hrung bietet einen ersten Zugang und einen à berblick zum Thema
Paradoxien der Neuen Staatsräson. Die Internationalisierung der Bildungspolitik in der EU und der OECD
New Arenas of Education Governance
Pisa — Internationalisierung von Bildungspolitik. Oder: Wie kommt die Landespolitik zur OECD
Small country, big business? New Zealand as education exporter
This paper discusses New Zealand’s role in the global market for tertiary education. The internationalisation and liberalisation of education markets is progressing rapidly in today’s globalising world, as reflected by the incorporation of education as a service into the GATS framework. Through the example of New Zealand as a case study for the internationalisation of education services, the study depicts the way the government is involved in thi…
Mechanisms of OECD governance: International Incentives for National Policy-Making?
'Mechanisms of OECD Governance' analyses the influential but under-studied Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields and provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization.
Towards an education approach à la finlandaise ? French education policy after Pisa
In this article, we address whether international student comparisons have changed the dynamics of French secondary education policy. We focus on the increasingly significant impact of the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD)’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) on France, a country previously known for its aversion to international comparisons and its turbulent relationship with the OECD. We argue that not …
Grenzenlose Bildungspolitik? Empirische Evidenz für Pisa als weltweites Leitbild für nationale Bildungsreformen
The Bologna Process as a template for transnational policy coordination
The Bologna Process (BP) presents the largest ongoing reform initiative in higher education (HE). Although it has triggered large-scale changes in HE structures in Europe, comparative analysis about its impact on other regions of the world is scarce. Using transnational communication and sociological institutionalism as a theoretical framework, this article investigates the impact of the BP on the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribb…
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the diverse actors and agencies involved in global social governance and seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy.
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance
The introduction paves the way for an actor-centred approach to global social governance. The chapter highlights the necessity to think beyond existing conceptualizations and approaches, by combining different analytical tools from social policy, international relations, global governance research and comparative politics research. Different notions of agency and governance mechanisms at the disposal of different groups of actors are introduced, …
Explaining Policy Convergence and Polity Divergence in Federal Systems: German and Swiss Higher Education Revisited
This article explores higher education reforms in the federally organized education systems of Germany and Switzerland. We argue that the increasing internationalization of education—spearheaded by the Bologna Process—has brought about changes not only in higher education policy, but also led to significant reconfigurations of the higher education polity. These processes present an empirical puzzle: while higher education policies in both systems…
International Organizations in Global Social Governance
This volume enhances our understanding of IOs in global social governance by providing studies of the social policy fields in which they operate
Global Pathways to Education: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations
Global Pathways to Education: Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations
This OA volume identifies developmental trajectories in education systems and investigates the causes of change from a global and historical perspective.
Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement
Education policy between persistence and change: Grand transformations processes and cultural spheres in the case of Cambodia
In this study, we aim to understand how international influences, moderated by cultural spheres, impact the inclusiveness of education and support generosity for individuals’ education in the long durée. The two grand and globally significant political transformation processes we focus on are (de)colonization and socialism. We also analyze how current multilateralism exerted through international organizations (IOs) in the post-WW2 order affects …
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: How international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education
The integration of migrants and refugees (M&R) into national education systems is crucial for their societal and economic inclusion and has been a cornerstone in the global education agenda. In this study, we examine how international organisations (IOs) shape the discourse on M&R education policies. We analyse how IOs frame M&R education across different organisational clusters, by employing Sociological Institutionalism (SI) and Organisational …
Political science (17 works) · Economics (9 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Management (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works)