Clara Fontdevila
Biographic Data
| ID | 760143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Fontdevila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontdevila |
| SIGNATURE | FONTDEVILA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0589-558X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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…
Publicly funded religious schools
Altres ajuts: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF22\220003)
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
Researching Global Education Policy
Realising the human development promise in dual VET
Despite growing consensus around the need for a more holistic vision of development, realising the human development potential of educational interventions has proven a challenging task. This Forum grapples with how these tensions manifest in the international transfer of dual models of Vocational Education and Training (dVET) to low- and middle-income countries. While dVET has gained global currency, its developmental potential has been primaril…
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…
Still waiting for the (data) revolution. Examining supply-demand mismatches in the production of SDG 4 metrics
In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, high hopes were placed in the production of global metrics. Such expectations rest upon two main assumptions: first, that global data demands will lead to an increase in domestic data supply; and second, that global and domestic data needs are closely aligned. Having passed the halfway point of the SDGs, this paper critically examines each of these assumptions in relation to recent de…
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…
Post-Dual Training Transitions in Mexico
The article explores how Covid-19 lockdown in Mexico affected the transitions of apprentices that completed the Mexican Model of Dual Training (MMDT) in 2020. The MMDT is a modality of technical and vocational education that combines work-based and school-based training at upper secondary school. We performed a longitudinal research design consisting of two waves of in-depth interviews with a sample of 52 apprentices in two states of Mexico (Coah…
The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics
The indicator framework established for the monitoring of SDG4 is unambiguous on the need to advance in the production of global learning data. However, the production of SDG4 learning metrics has been riddled with technical and political difficulties. Drawing on a combination of documentary analysis, interviews and non-participant observation, this paper reconstructs the process of negotiation of the data suppliers, statistical routines and repo…
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…
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…
The growth and spread of large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) is expanding internationally and reaching countries that seemed to be immune to this education reform approach until quite recently. Accordingly, more and more educational systems in the world are articulated around three main policy principles: accountability, standards and decentralisation. National large-scale assessments (NLSAs) are a core component of the GERM; these assessments are increasingly us…
Políticas, procesos y trayectorias de privatización educativa en Latinoamérica
Las políticas pro-privatización son un componente cada vez más importante en los procesos de reforma educativa en muchos puntos del planeta. América Latina es la región en la que la privatización educativa ha avanzado de forma más acusada en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, la literatura académica sobre el tema es todavía escasa y son pocos los trabajos que adoptan una perspectiva regional. El objetivo de este artículo es desensamblar la natural…
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…
Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation
Crescimento E Disseminação De Avaliações Em Larga Escala E De Responsabilizações Baseadas Em Testes
O Movimento de Reforma Educacional Global (Global Education Reform Movement –GERM) está se expandindo internacionalmente e alcançando países que aparentavam ser imunes a essa abordagem de reforma educacional até muito recentemente. Assim, os sistemas educacionais do mundo têm sido cada vez mais articulados em torno de três princípios políticos principais, a saber: responsabilização, padrões e descentralização. As avaliações nacionais em larga esc…
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
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…
Institutional habitus in context
This article aims to revisit the relationship between school-level variables and students’ educational opportunities through the lens of institutional habitus. This approach is particularly well suited to explore the notion of school culture because it brings to the forefront the impact of social context, avoiding some of the limitations typically associated with the long-dominant perspective of school effectiveness research. Drawing on an ethnog…
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Institutional habitus in context
This article aims to revisit the relationship between school-level variables and students’ educational opportunities through the lens of institutional habitus. This approach is particularly well suited to explore the notion of school culture because it brings to the forefront the impact of social context, avoiding some of the limitations typically associated with the long-dominant perspective of school effectiveness research. Drawing on an ethnog…
Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation
The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics
The indicator framework established for the monitoring of SDG4 is unambiguous on the need to advance in the production of global learning data. However, the production of SDG4 learning metrics has been riddled with technical and political difficulties. Drawing on a combination of documentary analysis, interviews and non-participant observation, this paper reconstructs the process of negotiation of the data suppliers, statistical routines and repo…
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…
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
Crescimento E Disseminação De Avaliações Em Larga Escala E De Responsabilizações Baseadas Em Testes
O Movimento de Reforma Educacional Global (Global Education Reform Movement –GERM) está se expandindo internacionalmente e alcançando países que aparentavam ser imunes a essa abordagem de reforma educacional até muito recentemente. Assim, os sistemas educacionais do mundo têm sido cada vez mais articulados em torno de três princípios políticos principais, a saber: responsabilização, padrões e descentralização. As avaliações nacionais em larga esc…
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
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…
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
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…
Institutional habitus in context
This article aims to revisit the relationship between school-level variables and students’ educational opportunities through the lens of institutional habitus. This approach is particularly well suited to explore the notion of school culture because it brings to the forefront the impact of social context, avoiding some of the limitations typically associated with the long-dominant perspective of school effectiveness research. Drawing on an ethnog…
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation
Crescimento E Disseminação De Avaliações Em Larga Escala E De Responsabilizações Baseadas Em Testes
O Movimento de Reforma Educacional Global (Global Education Reform Movement –GERM) está se expandindo internacionalmente e alcançando países que aparentavam ser imunes a essa abordagem de reforma educacional até muito recentemente. Assim, os sistemas educacionais do mundo têm sido cada vez mais articulados em torno de três princípios políticos principais, a saber: responsabilização, padrões e descentralização. As avaliações nacionais em larga esc…
The growth and spread of large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) is expanding internationally and reaching countries that seemed to be immune to this education reform approach until quite recently. Accordingly, more and more educational systems in the world are articulated around three main policy principles: accountability, standards and decentralisation. National large-scale assessments (NLSAs) are a core component of the GERM; these assessments are increasingly us…
Políticas, procesos y trayectorias de privatización educativa en Latinoamérica
Las políticas pro-privatización son un componente cada vez más importante en los procesos de reforma educativa en muchos puntos del planeta. América Latina es la región en la que la privatización educativa ha avanzado de forma más acusada en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, la literatura académica sobre el tema es todavía escasa y son pocos los trabajos que adoptan una perspectiva regional. El objetivo de este artículo es desensamblar la natural…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Post-Dual Training Transitions in Mexico
The article explores how Covid-19 lockdown in Mexico affected the transitions of apprentices that completed the Mexican Model of Dual Training (MMDT) in 2020. The MMDT is a modality of technical and vocational education that combines work-based and school-based training at upper secondary school. We performed a longitudinal research design consisting of two waves of in-depth interviews with a sample of 52 apprentices in two states of Mexico (Coah…
The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics
The indicator framework established for the monitoring of SDG4 is unambiguous on the need to advance in the production of global learning data. However, the production of SDG4 learning metrics has been riddled with technical and political difficulties. Drawing on a combination of documentary analysis, interviews and non-participant observation, this paper reconstructs the process of negotiation of the data suppliers, statistical routines and repo…
Still waiting for the (data) revolution. Examining supply-demand mismatches in the production of SDG 4 metrics
In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, high hopes were placed in the production of global metrics. Such expectations rest upon two main assumptions: first, that global data demands will lead to an increase in domestic data supply; and second, that global and domestic data needs are closely aligned. Having passed the halfway point of the SDGs, this paper critically examines each of these assumptions in relation to recent de…
Researching Global Education Policy
Realising the human development promise in dual VET
Despite growing consensus around the need for a more holistic vision of development, realising the human development potential of educational interventions has proven a challenging task. This Forum grapples with how these tensions manifest in the international transfer of dual models of Vocational Education and Training (dVET) to low- and middle-income countries. While dVET has gained global currency, its developmental potential has been primaril…
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…
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…
Publicly funded religious schools
Altres ajuts: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF22\220003)
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
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…
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