Will Brehm
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6449066 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Will Brehm |
| PRENOMES | Will |
| SOBRENOME | Brehm |
| ASSINATURA | BREHM W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0748-6675 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Comparative and International Education Research in an Era of Digital Acceleration, Democratic Backsliding, and Ecological Collapse
Zone‐Based Transnational Education
Transnational education (TNE) is typically theorized through Jane Knight's knowledge diplomacy framework, which emphasizes cooperation and mutual benefit, or Jenny Lee's soft power perspective, which highlights geopolitical competition. This article argues that both frameworks fail to explain zone‐based TNE, where universities operate within Special Economic Zones explicitly designed for capital accumulation. Drawing on Quinn Slobodian's analysis…
Do it yourself tutoring in Cambodia
Covid-19 turbocharged the adoption of digital technologies in mainstream schools, which necessarily changed the shape of private supplementary tutoring as well. This article traces these dynamics in Cambodia, outlining the concept of Do It Yourself (DIY) Tutoring. DIY Tutoring is curriculum-linked learning outside of the classroom that a student engages with autonomously through digital platforms. The digital nature of DIY Tutoring allows for a l…
Common interests, narrow foundations
Podcasts as pedagogy in higher education
Podcasts are now one of the most ubiquitous forms of digital engagement and entertainment. Their increasing global impact also extends to higher education (HE), where they serve a variety of pedagogical purposes despite limited conceptual clarity. This paper reports on a scoping review exploring the concept and role of podcasts in HE teaching and learning. Based on a review of 91 publications, the paper maps definitions, taxonomies and pedagogica…
Cies Provocations Forum
Reverse Transitologies in Comparative Education
This article presents empirical findings from 21 teachers’ experiences across Afghanistan during the first year following the Taliban’s return to power. It examines the transformations within the school system and their impact on the teaching profession, students, and learning environment. These changes are analyzed through three interrelated dimensions: unpredictability, inflexibility, and unknowable futures. Together, these dimensions inform th…
Podcasting comparative and international education
Podcasts have increased in popularity in recent years as a form of knowledge production and dissemination, but scant research has examined how academic podcasts relate to their cognate fields. This study analysed in detail one academic podcast–FreshEd–to examine its content and how it may reflect, reframe, and/or reorient the field of comparative and international education (CIE). Data were collected on 294 podcast episodes, first analysed descri…
State-building, nationalism, and education in Myanmar
Conversations
Comparative education as a political project
This article argues that since World War II, comparative education has worked in the service of two historic blocs: one focused on creating institutions and ideologies in support of internationalism and a second focused on containing the threat of communism. Both versions have supported and justified foreign intervention into domestic education systems, mirroring colonial practices and logics. Once the United States of America became politically …
Cambodia for Sale
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of public services, life remains organized around buying and selling virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an eth…
Education’s big short
Some of the biggest debtors in the twenty-first century are not small business owners or first-time homeowners, but rather university students who take out massive debt in the belief that it is an investment in their future. Like housing loans before the Global Financial Crisis, student loan debt is today being packaged and re-packaged into exotic financial products called Student Loan Asset Backed Securities (SLABS). This article details the fin…
The Is and the Ought of Knowing
This article focuses on the limitations of terms and definitions regarding shadow education research in Cambodia. Although shadow education in Cambodia is typically defined as private tutoring taught by mainstream schoolteachers to their own students, other manifestations of it have been missed by most studies on the subject, including my own. By tracing the terms used and the definitions of shadow education in various research studies, I argue t…
Historical memory and educational privatisation
Educational privatisation has received increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. In much of this work, educational privatisation is viewed as the outcomes of certain government policies or as the result of the influences of education businesses in school systems. This article presents a portrait of an educational entrepreneur in Cambodia to show how privatisation has been enacted by individuals. The empirical data for this article were co…
The national politics of educational advocacy in the context of global governance
This paper examines the Civil Society Education Fund’s (CSEF) impact on the non-governmental organisation education partnership (NEP) in Cambodia. With financial backing from the World Bank and the Fast Track Initiative, the CSEF is an initiative that is managed internationally by the Global Campaign for Education. Its goal is to help national networks of non-governmental organizations participate in education decision-making and to serve as a wa…
The emergence of Cambodian civil society within global educational governance
This paper uses Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach to analyze the emergence of civil society within global educational governance. The purpose is to understand the intersection of historical structures with global actors and spaces that have accompanied the globalization of education. Based on findings from a study on the impact in Cambodia of the Civil Society Education Fund – sponsored by the Global Campaign for Education – we first ident…
From myths to models
This article traces the emergence of the world culture theory in comparative education using critical discourse analysis. By chronicling the emergence and expansion of world culture theory over the past four decades, we highlight the (unintended) limitations and exclusive regimes of thought that have resulted. We argue that the theory's telos of a ‘world culture’ neglects the notions of power and agency, and continues to use discourses of moderni…
For the Love of Knowledge
This article discusses William W. Brickman's contributions to the field of comparative and international education. Through archival research of Brickman's collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, interviews with his former colleagues, students, and family members, and a content analysis of his publications and the two journals he edited, the authors examine Brickman's role in founding the Comparative Education Society, his no…
Education and Geopolitics in a Changing Europe
This article chronicles the history of the journal European Education since its establishment in 1969 by placing it within the larger context of geopolitical changes of the twentieth century and the historical debates on theory and method in the field of comparative education. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 40 journal volumes (158 journal issues and 1,176 articles), the article explains how the journal attempted to re…
The emergence of Cambodian civil society within global educational governance
This paper uses Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach to analyze the emergence of civil society within global educational governance. The purpose is to understand the intersection of historical structures with global actors and spaces that have accompanied the globalization of education. Based on findings from a study on the impact in Cambodia of the Civil Society Education Fund – sponsored by the Global Campaign for Education – we first ident…
From myths to models
This article traces the emergence of the world culture theory in comparative education using critical discourse analysis. By chronicling the emergence and expansion of world culture theory over the past four decades, we highlight the (unintended) limitations and exclusive regimes of thought that have resulted. We argue that the theory's telos of a ‘world culture’ neglects the notions of power and agency, and continues to use discourses of moderni…
Comparative education as a political project
This article argues that since World War II, comparative education has worked in the service of two historic blocs: one focused on creating institutions and ideologies in support of internationalism and a second focused on containing the threat of communism. Both versions have supported and justified foreign intervention into domestic education systems, mirroring colonial practices and logics. Once the United States of America became politically …
The national politics of educational advocacy in the context of global governance
This paper examines the Civil Society Education Fund’s (CSEF) impact on the non-governmental organisation education partnership (NEP) in Cambodia. With financial backing from the World Bank and the Fast Track Initiative, the CSEF is an initiative that is managed internationally by the Global Campaign for Education. Its goal is to help national networks of non-governmental organizations participate in education decision-making and to serve as a wa…
Education and Geopolitics in a Changing Europe
This article chronicles the history of the journal European Education since its establishment in 1969 by placing it within the larger context of geopolitical changes of the twentieth century and the historical debates on theory and method in the field of comparative education. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 40 journal volumes (158 journal issues and 1,176 articles), the article explains how the journal attempted to re…
Education and Geopolitics in a Changing Europe
This article chronicles the history of the journal European Education since its establishment in 1969 by placing it within the larger context of geopolitical changes of the twentieth century and the historical debates on theory and method in the field of comparative education. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 40 journal volumes (158 journal issues and 1,176 articles), the article explains how the journal attempted to re…
For the Love of Knowledge
This article discusses William W. Brickman's contributions to the field of comparative and international education. Through archival research of Brickman's collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, interviews with his former colleagues, students, and family members, and a content analysis of his publications and the two journals he edited, the authors examine Brickman's role in founding the Comparative Education Society, his no…
From myths to models
This article traces the emergence of the world culture theory in comparative education using critical discourse analysis. By chronicling the emergence and expansion of world culture theory over the past four decades, we highlight the (unintended) limitations and exclusive regimes of thought that have resulted. We argue that the theory's telos of a ‘world culture’ neglects the notions of power and agency, and continues to use discourses of moderni…
The emergence of Cambodian civil society within global educational governance
This paper uses Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach to analyze the emergence of civil society within global educational governance. The purpose is to understand the intersection of historical structures with global actors and spaces that have accompanied the globalization of education. Based on findings from a study on the impact in Cambodia of the Civil Society Education Fund – sponsored by the Global Campaign for Education – we first ident…
The Is and the Ought of Knowing
This article focuses on the limitations of terms and definitions regarding shadow education research in Cambodia. Although shadow education in Cambodia is typically defined as private tutoring taught by mainstream schoolteachers to their own students, other manifestations of it have been missed by most studies on the subject, including my own. By tracing the terms used and the definitions of shadow education in various research studies, I argue t…
Historical memory and educational privatisation
Educational privatisation has received increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. In much of this work, educational privatisation is viewed as the outcomes of certain government policies or as the result of the influences of education businesses in school systems. This article presents a portrait of an educational entrepreneur in Cambodia to show how privatisation has been enacted by individuals. The empirical data for this article were co…
The national politics of educational advocacy in the context of global governance
This paper examines the Civil Society Education Fund’s (CSEF) impact on the non-governmental organisation education partnership (NEP) in Cambodia. With financial backing from the World Bank and the Fast Track Initiative, the CSEF is an initiative that is managed internationally by the Global Campaign for Education. Its goal is to help national networks of non-governmental organizations participate in education decision-making and to serve as a wa…
Education’s big short
Some of the biggest debtors in the twenty-first century are not small business owners or first-time homeowners, but rather university students who take out massive debt in the belief that it is an investment in their future. Like housing loans before the Global Financial Crisis, student loan debt is today being packaged and re-packaged into exotic financial products called Student Loan Asset Backed Securities (SLABS). This article details the fin…
Cambodia for Sale
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of public services, life remains organized around buying and selling virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an eth…
Comparative education as a political project
This article argues that since World War II, comparative education has worked in the service of two historic blocs: one focused on creating institutions and ideologies in support of internationalism and a second focused on containing the threat of communism. Both versions have supported and justified foreign intervention into domestic education systems, mirroring colonial practices and logics. Once the United States of America became politically …
Conversations
Podcasting comparative and international education
Podcasts have increased in popularity in recent years as a form of knowledge production and dissemination, but scant research has examined how academic podcasts relate to their cognate fields. This study analysed in detail one academic podcast–FreshEd–to examine its content and how it may reflect, reframe, and/or reorient the field of comparative and international education (CIE). Data were collected on 294 podcast episodes, first analysed descri…
State-building, nationalism, and education in Myanmar
Comparative and International Education Research in an Era of Digital Acceleration, Democratic Backsliding, and Ecological Collapse
Zone‐Based Transnational Education
Transnational education (TNE) is typically theorized through Jane Knight's knowledge diplomacy framework, which emphasizes cooperation and mutual benefit, or Jenny Lee's soft power perspective, which highlights geopolitical competition. This article argues that both frameworks fail to explain zone‐based TNE, where universities operate within Special Economic Zones explicitly designed for capital accumulation. Drawing on Quinn Slobodian's analysis…
Do it yourself tutoring in Cambodia
Covid-19 turbocharged the adoption of digital technologies in mainstream schools, which necessarily changed the shape of private supplementary tutoring as well. This article traces these dynamics in Cambodia, outlining the concept of Do It Yourself (DIY) Tutoring. DIY Tutoring is curriculum-linked learning outside of the classroom that a student engages with autonomously through digital platforms. The digital nature of DIY Tutoring allows for a l…
Common interests, narrow foundations
Podcasts as pedagogy in higher education
Podcasts are now one of the most ubiquitous forms of digital engagement and entertainment. Their increasing global impact also extends to higher education (HE), where they serve a variety of pedagogical purposes despite limited conceptual clarity. This paper reports on a scoping review exploring the concept and role of podcasts in HE teaching and learning. Based on a review of 91 publications, the paper maps definitions, taxonomies and pedagogica…
Cies Provocations Forum
Reverse Transitologies in Comparative Education
This article presents empirical findings from 21 teachers’ experiences across Afghanistan during the first year following the Taliban’s return to power. It examines the transformations within the school system and their impact on the teaching profession, students, and learning environment. These changes are analyzed through three interrelated dimensions: unpredictability, inflexibility, and unknowable futures. Together, these dimensions inform th…
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