L Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 57967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2937-5167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Navigating the Activist Techno‐Social Landscape: Washington, DC High School Students' Engagement with Social Media Content
In recent decades, youth activism has experienced a global resurgence, playing a pivotal role in advocating for social and political change across diverse national and international contexts. Drawing on empirical data from a study of high school students in diverse Washington, DC public schools, this paper offers a unique perspective on youth engagement with activism. Findings include insights from students not identified as traditional activists…
“We all have a responsibility, like, even if we're just high schoolers!”: How DC youth are engaging with global issues
Beyond the buzzwords: How Washington, DC education policies shape youth activism
Through a thematic analysis of policy documents from state and federal education authorities, we explore how institutional structures and governance dynamics shape opportunities for youth engagement in Washington, DC. By examining how youth activism is framed and operationalized in policy, we ask: What does youth activism entail, and how is it defined and understood in the DC educational policy context? Our findings reveal that while references t…
Toward inclusive internationalisation of schools: Educators’ Perspectives on Leading Students in Global Experiences
This article focuses on internationalisation of teaching and teacher education with a specific focus on educators’ experiences in leading global mobility programmes with students. It draws on a qualitative study of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Study Abroad Program, a fully-funded education abroad programme aimed at making K12 study abroad more accessible to a greater number of underrepresented US students. Utilising interviews w…
Special issue editorial: Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Analytical Potentials and Challenges
Cosmopolitan nationalism as an analytical lens: Four articulations in education policy
Cosmopolitanism and nationalism are often presented in binary terms, as standing in opposition to each other, especially with regards to education. In this paper, we establish a framework for studying education policy today through the lens of a concept we have developed: ‘cosmopolitan nationalism’. Many education systems around the world are grappling with and simultaneously integrating both cosmopolitan and nationalist elements in policy object…
Collaborative Cosmopolitan Capital in In-Service Teacher-Led K-12 Study Abroad Programs
Research highlights the many benefits of study abroad in higher education with emerging scholarship on study abroad in K-12 education. This paper focuses on how leading study abroad fosters a collaborative, cosmopolitan-oriented, professional environment for secondary teachers in Washington, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS). Theoretically we apply frameworks related to the development of cosmopolitan capital and the formation of collaborative professio…
Forgotten Encounters: The Legacy of Sculptresses and Female Muses
Sculpture as a medium is inherently connected to legacy making. In producing three- dimensional monuments designed to withstand the test of time, women artists provided evidence of the lasting quality and permanence of their creative acts. This article examines the actress, sculptress and novelist Anne Damer’s sculpture of the famous actress turned Countess Eliza Farren (c. 1788), paying particular attention to the relationship between sculpture …
Global policy mobilities in federal education systems
As an introduction to this special issue, this paper presents a discussion of different theoretical and methodological challenges in analyzing the ways in which global policy flows are shaping education policies and practices within and across federal systems. We argue that the dynamics between the global and the federal systems are complex, non-linear, multi-directional and ever changing. We start by discussing the notion of global policy mobili…
International studies in sociology of education in times of tumult
International studies in sociology of education in times of tumult
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the reconstitution of education
The COVID-19 pandemic and the reconstitution of education
Education and social mobility: Possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Education and social mobility: possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding ‘international education’
Multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding ‘international education’
Policy Sociology in the Contemporary Global Era: Continued Importance and Pressing Methodological Considerations
The intensities of the contemporary moment continue to prompt reflections on the strengths and limitations of approaches typically used to study education policy reform. The central contention of this essay is that policy sociology and its application within education offers needed vantage points on contemporary pressing global policy problems. Future studies would do well to keep the footprint of existing frameworks, which emphasize policy netwo…
The world before us: Reappraising Globalization in Education in the Tumult of Contemporary Change
In reassessing globalization, contributors to this Special Issue collectively note the swirling, unstable set of forces that have followed in the wake of globalizing processes visited upon twenty-f
Walking between the raindrops: The Role of Religion in Globalised Schooling
This study applies the notion of ‘alternative futures’ in globalisation and education by focusing specifically on the intersection between religion and education. Through an in-depth exploration utilising a case-study approach, we delve into the organisational dynamics of an Israeli school catering to a closed-off, traditional Jewish religious community while also proactively embedding specific forms of internationalisation. We identify and analy…
Laboratories, Coproducers, and Venues: Roles Played by Subnational Governments in Standards-Based Reforms in Four Federations
Considerable efforts have been made to better understand how global trends toward standards-based reforms have emerged in national education systems. Less well known, however, is the unfolding of standards-based reforms within and across federal education systems. In federal systems, national governments do not make policy unilaterally, but rather share authority with multiple orders of government. Using the concept of “global forms” to explore t…
Critiquing dominant cultures of schooling as a sustained critical enterprise in sociology of education
Critiquing dominant cultures of schooling as a sustained critical enterprise in sociology of education
Elite making and increasing access to cosmopolitan capital: DC youth experiences in education abroad
This paper focuses on the production of cosmopolitan capital among students participating in the DC Public Schools Study Abroad Programme, an initiative that has been lauded as shifting the narrative of equitable access to global learning. We draw on a framework of Bourdieusian ideas about cultural capital, as well as community cultural wealth perspectives to illuminate findings from a multi-year, mixed-method study of the programme. Our focus is…
Pay to play: What does Pisa participation cost in the US
Much attention has been given to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and its effects in different education systems, including the United States. This paper begins to address a major gap in this literature by focusing on the costs of participation in PISA. The paper draws on content analysis of official documents and budgets, as well as qualitative interviews with…
Toward an international measure of global competence? A critical look at the Pisa 2018 framework
This paper focuses on the OECD’s PISA 2018 international framework for global competence. Given the growing national and international attention on educating for global competence, and absent of other measures, there is a need to scrutinise this framework. Our critical analysis is conceptually framed by academic literature related to (a) the OECD’s influential role in facilitating neoliberal education policy trends, (b) disjuncture and debate sur…
Reassessing globalization: New Perspectives on Education in the Tumult of Global Change
Dynamics associated with globalization – as expressed in the intensification and movement of cultural and economic capital, mass migration, the amplification and proliferation of images via digital
The Importance of Disambiguating Adaptive States in Development Theory and Practice
This article proposes a way to disambiguate the evaluative states currently identified as “adaptive preferences” in development literature. It provides a brief analysis of Serene Khader's Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, and demonstrates that distinguishing between adaptive states has important implications for the theory and practice of development intervention. Although I support Khader's general approach and consider my project to be compl…
A cross-national comparison of international strategies: Global citizenship and the advancement of national competitiveness
This paper examines national-level strategies concerning internationalisation of education and the extent to which global citizenship is deployed in their discourse. We focus on a cross-national comparison of selected internationalisation strategies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the USA, all countries with highly developed economies and a relatively high proportion of the market share of international students. We draw on a thematic t…
A cross-national comparison of international strategies: Global citizenship and the advancement of national competitiveness
This paper examines national-level strategies concerning internationalisation of education and the extent to which global citizenship is deployed in their discourse. We focus on a cross-national comparison of selected internationalisation strategies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the USA, all countries with highly developed economies and a relatively high proportion of the market share of international students. We draw on a thematic t…
Competitive comparison and Pisa bragging rights: Sub-national uses of the OECD's Pisa in Canada and the USA
Participation in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has continuously expanded: from 43 systems in 2000 to 65 systems in the 2012 cycle, with 71 signed up for PISA 2015. There also has been a growth in sub-national participation, expanding PISA's reach beyond the nation-state. This paper explores sub-national PISA participation in Canada and the USA, asking how PI…
Toward an international measure of global competence? A critical look at the Pisa 2018 framework
This paper focuses on the OECD’s PISA 2018 international framework for global competence. Given the growing national and international attention on educating for global competence, and absent of other measures, there is a need to scrutinise this framework. Our critical analysis is conceptually framed by academic literature related to (a) the OECD’s influential role in facilitating neoliberal education policy trends, (b) disjuncture and debate sur…
Elite making and increasing access to cosmopolitan capital: DC youth experiences in education abroad
This paper focuses on the production of cosmopolitan capital among students participating in the DC Public Schools Study Abroad Programme, an initiative that has been lauded as shifting the narrative of equitable access to global learning. We draw on a framework of Bourdieusian ideas about cultural capital, as well as community cultural wealth perspectives to illuminate findings from a multi-year, mixed-method study of the programme. Our focus is…
Breaking the centre–periphery mould: Exploring globalisation and educational governance in Catalonia
This paper examines educational policy production through an exploration of the shifting policies of educational decentralisation in Catalonia, Spain. It seeks to illuminate how in the era of globalisation, policy is produced through multiscalar processes involving a range of intersecting factors. This analysis shows that policy concepts surrounding educational decentralisation are not only formed in relation to national–regional dynamics but are…
Special issue editorial: Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Analytical Potentials and Challenges
Steering the National: Exploring the Education Policy Uses of Pisa in Spain
This article presents findings from a recent study of the education policy uses and impact of international large-scale assessments, namely the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The paper focuses on two overlapping dimensions of PISA’s education policy use in the context of Spain. These include political dimensions, such as the use of PISA to initiate and justify the 2012−2013 educational reforms; and technical dimensions, na…
Inclusive schooling: Fostering citizenship among immigrant students in Europe
Growing ethnic and cultural diversity within Europe has brought increased attention to the impact and inclusion of immigrant populations and has also presented societies with valuable opportunities for intercultural learning between diverse groups. Using the International Civic and Citizenship Study data from 24 European education systems, in this paper we explore whether fostering an atmosphere of inclusion in schools relates to select attitudes…
Education and social mobility: Possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Education and social mobility: possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Walking between the raindrops: The Role of Religion in Globalised Schooling
This study applies the notion of ‘alternative futures’ in globalisation and education by focusing specifically on the intersection between religion and education. Through an in-depth exploration utilising a case-study approach, we delve into the organisational dynamics of an Israeli school catering to a closed-off, traditional Jewish religious community while also proactively embedding specific forms of internationalisation. We identify and analy…
Pay to play: What does Pisa participation cost in the US
Much attention has been given to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and its effects in different education systems, including the United States. This paper begins to address a major gap in this literature by focusing on the costs of participation in PISA. The paper draws on content analysis of official documents and budgets, as well as qualitative interviews with…
The Importance of Disambiguating Adaptive States in Development Theory and Practice
This article proposes a way to disambiguate the evaluative states currently identified as “adaptive preferences” in development literature. It provides a brief analysis of Serene Khader's Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, and demonstrates that distinguishing between adaptive states has important implications for the theory and practice of development intervention. Although I support Khader's general approach and consider my project to be compl…
Stage beauties: Actresses and celebrity culture in the long eighteenth century
Over the past 20 years, the study of eighteenth‐century British actresses has blossomed into an emerging interdisciplinary field. Early works on actresses in the 1990's coincided with a heightened interest in recovering non‐canonical eighteenth‐century texts by female authors as well as the publication of Judith Butler's ground breaking Gender Trouble in 1992. Actresses became, in many ways, the perfect vehicle for looking at how ideologies of fe…
Global Mobility and Rising Inequality: A Cross-National Study of Immigration, Poverty, and Social Cohesion
With globalization, the world has become more interconnected and interdependent, with people, capital, and ideas rapidly migrating across borders. Yet, along with greater global interdependence and increased diversity within societies, economic and social inequalities have deepened, making poverty one of the leading global problems. To lessen poverty around the world, better integrate immigrant groups into societies, and enhance stability, both s…
Effectiveness, inequality and ethos in three English schools
Purpose This paper aims to explore the nature of effective schools serving socially disadvantaged communities, and to point to an overlooked feature in the literature on school effectiveness in relation to social inclusion. Design/methodology/approach As part of a trans‐European project, three English schools are investigated. A qualitative case study approach is utilised. The schools selected have high proportions of ethnic minority students wit…
The Muff Affair: Fashioning Celebrity in the Portraits of Late-eighteenth-century British Actresses
In this article, I argue that images of muffs in several portraits of actresses from the 1780s and 1790s can be read as ambiguous cultural signs that are analogous to the ambivalent position of actresses as female celebrities in the late eighteenth century. Muffs in portraits of actresses draw attention to the complex boundary between fame and notoriety for eighteenth-century women: in certain images muffs function as signs of aristocracy and gla…
Rolling back, rolling out’: Exceptionalism and neoliberalism of the Spanish state
In recent literature, there has been extensive work revolving around the process of neoliberalism, its implications for the unfolding of state spaces, and its dramatic impact on processes of policy production. Some of this literature offers a periodized trajectory of neoliberalization, by first discussing the consolidation of the Keynesian welfare state (KWS) in the 1950s and 1960s, its subsequent erosion in the 1970s and 1980s, and the restructu…
Rolling back, rolling out’: Exceptionalism and neoliberalism of the Spanish state
In recent literature, there has been extensive work revolving around the process of neoliberalism, its implications for the unfolding of state spaces, and its dramatic impact on processes of policy production. Some of this literature offers a periodized trajectory of neoliberalization, by first discussing the consolidation of the Keynesian welfare state (KWS) in the 1950s and 1960s, its subsequent erosion in the 1970s and 1980s, and the restructu…
Globalization and the Asia Pacific: An exploration of efficiency and equality aims of education1
The paper aims to explore the relationship between globalization and education through an investigation of educational policy development in the specific context of the Asia Pacific. The paper's primary focus is on data collected from the World Bank, OECD, IMF and UNESCO to look primarily at three interrelated trends in education: increasing enrollments at all educational levels, issues of gender equality, and changes in public expenditure. In th…
Breaking the centre–periphery mould: Exploring globalisation and educational governance in Catalonia
This paper examines educational policy production through an exploration of the shifting policies of educational decentralisation in Catalonia, Spain. It seeks to illuminate how in the era of globalisation, policy is produced through multiscalar processes involving a range of intersecting factors. This analysis shows that policy concepts surrounding educational decentralisation are not only formed in relation to national–regional dynamics but are…
The harsher side of globalisation: Violent conflict and academic achievement
The paper draws on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 data for nearly 60 educational systems to explore the characteristics and patterns of school violence across a number of countries and the extent to which measures of violence are associated with achievement in mathematics and science. Using a multi‐level modelling approach, we examine the relationship between school violence and mathematics achievement. Fin…
The Muff Affair: Fashioning Celebrity in the Portraits of Late-eighteenth-century British Actresses
In this article, I argue that images of muffs in several portraits of actresses from the 1780s and 1790s can be read as ambiguous cultural signs that are analogous to the ambivalent position of actresses as female celebrities in the late eighteenth century. Muffs in portraits of actresses draw attention to the complex boundary between fame and notoriety for eighteenth-century women: in certain images muffs function as signs of aristocracy and gla…
Effectiveness, inequality and ethos in three English schools
Purpose This paper aims to explore the nature of effective schools serving socially disadvantaged communities, and to point to an overlooked feature in the literature on school effectiveness in relation to social inclusion. Design/methodology/approach As part of a trans‐European project, three English schools are investigated. A qualitative case study approach is utilised. The schools selected have high proportions of ethnic minority students wit…
Inclusive schooling: Fostering citizenship among immigrant students in Europe
Growing ethnic and cultural diversity within Europe has brought increased attention to the impact and inclusion of immigrant populations and has also presented societies with valuable opportunities for intercultural learning between diverse groups. Using the International Civic and Citizenship Study data from 24 European education systems, in this paper we explore whether fostering an atmosphere of inclusion in schools relates to select attitudes…
Global Mobility and Rising Inequality: A Cross-National Study of Immigration, Poverty, and Social Cohesion
With globalization, the world has become more interconnected and interdependent, with people, capital, and ideas rapidly migrating across borders. Yet, along with greater global interdependence and increased diversity within societies, economic and social inequalities have deepened, making poverty one of the leading global problems. To lessen poverty around the world, better integrate immigrant groups into societies, and enhance stability, both s…
Steering the National: Exploring the Education Policy Uses of Pisa in Spain
This article presents findings from a recent study of the education policy uses and impact of international large-scale assessments, namely the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The paper focuses on two overlapping dimensions of PISA’s education policy use in the context of Spain. These include political dimensions, such as the use of PISA to initiate and justify the 2012−2013 educational reforms; and technical dimensions, na…
Competitive comparison and Pisa bragging rights: Sub-national uses of the OECD's Pisa in Canada and the USA
Participation in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has continuously expanded: from 43 systems in 2000 to 65 systems in the 2012 cycle, with 71 signed up for PISA 2015. There also has been a growth in sub-national participation, expanding PISA's reach beyond the nation-state. This paper explores sub-national PISA participation in Canada and the USA, asking how PI…
Stage beauties: Actresses and celebrity culture in the long eighteenth century
Over the past 20 years, the study of eighteenth‐century British actresses has blossomed into an emerging interdisciplinary field. Early works on actresses in the 1990's coincided with a heightened interest in recovering non‐canonical eighteenth‐century texts by female authors as well as the publication of Judith Butler's ground breaking Gender Trouble in 1992. Actresses became, in many ways, the perfect vehicle for looking at how ideologies of fe…
The Importance of Disambiguating Adaptive States in Development Theory and Practice
This article proposes a way to disambiguate the evaluative states currently identified as “adaptive preferences” in development literature. It provides a brief analysis of Serene Khader's Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, and demonstrates that distinguishing between adaptive states has important implications for the theory and practice of development intervention. Although I support Khader's general approach and consider my project to be compl…
A cross-national comparison of international strategies: Global citizenship and the advancement of national competitiveness
This paper examines national-level strategies concerning internationalisation of education and the extent to which global citizenship is deployed in their discourse. We focus on a cross-national comparison of selected internationalisation strategies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the USA, all countries with highly developed economies and a relatively high proportion of the market share of international students. We draw on a thematic t…
Toward an international measure of global competence? A critical look at the Pisa 2018 framework
This paper focuses on the OECD’s PISA 2018 international framework for global competence. Given the growing national and international attention on educating for global competence, and absent of other measures, there is a need to scrutinise this framework. Our critical analysis is conceptually framed by academic literature related to (a) the OECD’s influential role in facilitating neoliberal education policy trends, (b) disjuncture and debate sur…
Reassessing globalization: New Perspectives on Education in the Tumult of Global Change
Dynamics associated with globalization – as expressed in the intensification and movement of cultural and economic capital, mass migration, the amplification and proliferation of images via digital
Laboratories, Coproducers, and Venues: Roles Played by Subnational Governments in Standards-Based Reforms in Four Federations
Considerable efforts have been made to better understand how global trends toward standards-based reforms have emerged in national education systems. Less well known, however, is the unfolding of standards-based reforms within and across federal education systems. In federal systems, national governments do not make policy unilaterally, but rather share authority with multiple orders of government. Using the concept of “global forms” to explore t…
Critiquing dominant cultures of schooling as a sustained critical enterprise in sociology of education
Critiquing dominant cultures of schooling as a sustained critical enterprise in sociology of education
Elite making and increasing access to cosmopolitan capital: DC youth experiences in education abroad
This paper focuses on the production of cosmopolitan capital among students participating in the DC Public Schools Study Abroad Programme, an initiative that has been lauded as shifting the narrative of equitable access to global learning. We draw on a framework of Bourdieusian ideas about cultural capital, as well as community cultural wealth perspectives to illuminate findings from a multi-year, mixed-method study of the programme. Our focus is…
Pay to play: What does Pisa participation cost in the US
Much attention has been given to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and its effects in different education systems, including the United States. This paper begins to address a major gap in this literature by focusing on the costs of participation in PISA. The paper draws on content analysis of official documents and budgets, as well as qualitative interviews with…
Education and social mobility: Possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Education and social mobility: possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality
Multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding ‘international education’
Multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding ‘international education’
Policy Sociology in the Contemporary Global Era: Continued Importance and Pressing Methodological Considerations
The intensities of the contemporary moment continue to prompt reflections on the strengths and limitations of approaches typically used to study education policy reform. The central contention of this essay is that policy sociology and its application within education offers needed vantage points on contemporary pressing global policy problems. Future studies would do well to keep the footprint of existing frameworks, which emphasize policy netwo…
The world before us: Reappraising Globalization in Education in the Tumult of Contemporary Change
In reassessing globalization, contributors to this Special Issue collectively note the swirling, unstable set of forces that have followed in the wake of globalizing processes visited upon twenty-f
Walking between the raindrops: The Role of Religion in Globalised Schooling
This study applies the notion of ‘alternative futures’ in globalisation and education by focusing specifically on the intersection between religion and education. Through an in-depth exploration utilising a case-study approach, we delve into the organisational dynamics of an Israeli school catering to a closed-off, traditional Jewish religious community while also proactively embedding specific forms of internationalisation. We identify and analy…
The Covid-19 pandemic and the reconstitution of education
The COVID-19 pandemic and the reconstitution of education
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (21 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (20 works) · Economics (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Politics (9 works)