Jason Beech
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 335003 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jason Beech |
| PRENOMES | Jason |
| SOBRENOME | Beech |
| ASSINATURA | BEECH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4971-7665 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education
The aim of this article is to stretch spatial theorising in the field of comparative education. Among the different spatial theoretical approaches that have been explored in educational research in the last 10 years, we review social topology, spatial-temporalities, and beyond-human spatialities and how they have been used in comparative education research. To illustrate the potential of these approaches we then use them to analyse recent technol…
The unbearable lightness of being” a post-industrial learner
In his 1984 allegorical novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera explores existential questions around freedom and identity, meaning and purpose, in a period of upheaval in Soviet dominated Czechoslovakia. In this paper we draw on the rich symbolism in Kundera’s novel to bring into view upheavals in the social relations underpinning contemporary societies, and the tensions between freedom and com- mitment, lightness and weight that…
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…
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023
Promises promises’
Promising lines of scholarship have emerged on how International Organisations (IO's) deploy anticipatory techniques aimed at colonising the future as a means of governing in the absence of sovereignty.It follows that securing hegemony over a vision of the future is important strategic work for IOs, and a source of legitimacy derived from authority beyond procedure and performance.This is called promissory legitimacy.Yet what happens when this pr…
Robert Cowen, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education, Institute of Education, University College London
Opening access to privilege
The influence of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has grown impressively on a global scale. In Latin America, the IB has been mainly introduced in private schools that cater for the most affluent sectors of society and, consequently, has been mostly interpreted as contributing to processes of social reproduction and the widening of inequalities However, since the mid-2000s the IB has been promoted in state schools in countries such as Ecuador…
‘Cosmopolitan start-up’ capital
In this paper the authors study 19 Global Middle Class (GMC) families currently residing in four global cities: Hong Kong; London; Buenos Aires; and Tel Aviv. Through qualitative in-depth interviews, they sought to gather insights about GMC parenting strategies, specifically drawing attention to the decision-making processes of school choice. To facilitate their analysis, they draw on Bourdieu’s theory on types of capital and Ben-Porath’s notion …
Beyond Rationality Order and Purpose
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
This paper is aimed at exploring the possibilities that the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism can open up for pedagogic practices and, at the same time, the opportunities that pedagogy can provide for the construction of a cosmopolitan global ethics. Our argument is that students (and teachers) are involved in everyday experiences of cosmopolitan encounters and that these can and should be used as a starting point for the development of a cosmop…
Revisiting Jullien in an era of globalisation
In this paper, we discuss some of the ways in which forces of globalisation have transformed the spaces in which educational policies are now developed and practices now enacted. We will consider further the widely held claim that the emergence of these transnational spaces requires new ways of thinking about comparative education. We will examine this claim, referring in particular to the questions proposed by Jullien almost two centuries ago. T…
Interpreting the circulation of educational discourse across space
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to analyse the movement of educational discourses across space. After a critique of concepts such as ‘transf…
Spatial Theorizing in Comparative and International Education Research
The authors argue for a critical spatial perspective in comparative and international education. We briefly summarize how time and space have been conceptualized within our field. We then review mainstream social science literature that reflects a metanarrative, which we critique for contributing to false dichotomies between space and place and oversimplified views of the relationship between the global and the local. We present some of the key i…
Replacing Old Spatial Empires of the Mind
In this article we argue for the spatialization of research on educational transfer in the field of comparative education within a theoretical framework that focuses on networks, connections, and flows. We present what we call a "spatial empire of the mind," which is comprised of a set of taken-for-granted "truths" about space and place that have legitimized much research in the social sciences. We critique this spatial empire of the mind and pre…
Pro-market educational governance
In this article we explore ways in which pro-market discourses have been interpreted in policy initiatives in Argentina since the 1970s. Our argument is that even though pro-market discourses have guided reforms in many aspects of public policies in Argentina, the arena of education has overall been resistant to taking them up. The first part of the article analyses the origins of a strong discursive and symbolic link between notions of 'public e…
La comparacion en las ciencias sociales e históricas [Comparison in the social and historical sciences]
edited by Jurgen Schriewer and Hartmut Kaelble, Barcelona/Mexico, ICE, Octaedro, 2010, 302 pp., €24.80 (paperback), ISBN 978‐84‐9921‐023‐0 This book – the text of which is in Spanish – analyses, th
Policy spaces, mobile discourses, and the definition of educated identities
The aim of this article is to analyse the circulation of discourse in the global educational field and its relation to local‐specific education policies and practices. The first section examines the logic of networks and relates it to the specificities of the networks of interaction that, it is argued, constitute 'global policy spaces' in education. It is then suggested that the structural attributes and politics of 'global policy spaces' influen…
Space, knowledge and education policy
Latin American Education
Through an account of eight contemporary books that refer to Latin American education, this article offers an interpretation of the processes of construction of 'Latin American discursive space'. The similarities in the principles that dominated the latest educational reforms in the region and the main perspectives that 'explain' these similarities in the literature are taken as the starting point. The article then suggests another interpretation…
Promises promises’
Promising lines of scholarship have emerged on how International Organisations (IO's) deploy anticipatory techniques aimed at colonising the future as a means of governing in the absence of sovereignty.It follows that securing hegemony over a vision of the future is important strategic work for IOs, and a source of legitimacy derived from authority beyond procedure and performance.This is called promissory legitimacy.Yet what happens when this pr…
Policy spaces, mobile discourses, and the definition of educated identities
The aim of this article is to analyse the circulation of discourse in the global educational field and its relation to local‐specific education policies and practices. The first section examines the logic of networks and relates it to the specificities of the networks of interaction that, it is argued, constitute 'global policy spaces' in education. It is then suggested that the structural attributes and politics of 'global policy spaces' influen…
Interpreting the circulation of educational discourse across space
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to analyse the movement of educational discourses across space. After a critique of concepts such as ‘transf…
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
This paper is aimed at exploring the possibilities that the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism can open up for pedagogic practices and, at the same time, the opportunities that pedagogy can provide for the construction of a cosmopolitan global ethics. Our argument is that students (and teachers) are involved in everyday experiences of cosmopolitan encounters and that these can and should be used as a starting point for the development of a cosmop…
Opening access to privilege
The influence of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has grown impressively on a global scale. In Latin America, the IB has been mainly introduced in private schools that cater for the most affluent sectors of society and, consequently, has been mostly interpreted as contributing to processes of social reproduction and the widening of inequalities However, since the mid-2000s the IB has been promoted in state schools in countries such as Ecuador…
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
Latin American Education
Through an account of eight contemporary books that refer to Latin American education, this article offers an interpretation of the processes of construction of 'Latin American discursive space'. The similarities in the principles that dominated the latest educational reforms in the region and the main perspectives that 'explain' these similarities in the literature are taken as the starting point. The article then suggests another interpretation…
Revisiting Jullien in an era of globalisation
In this paper, we discuss some of the ways in which forces of globalisation have transformed the spaces in which educational policies are now developed and practices now enacted. We will consider further the widely held claim that the emergence of these transnational spaces requires new ways of thinking about comparative education. We will examine this claim, referring in particular to the questions proposed by Jullien almost two centuries ago. T…
Replacing Old Spatial Empires of the Mind
In this article we argue for the spatialization of research on educational transfer in the field of comparative education within a theoretical framework that focuses on networks, connections, and flows. We present what we call a "spatial empire of the mind," which is comprised of a set of taken-for-granted "truths" about space and place that have legitimized much research in the social sciences. We critique this spatial empire of the mind and pre…
Pro-market educational governance
In this article we explore ways in which pro-market discourses have been interpreted in policy initiatives in Argentina since the 1970s. Our argument is that even though pro-market discourses have guided reforms in many aspects of public policies in Argentina, the arena of education has overall been resistant to taking them up. The first part of the article analyses the origins of a strong discursive and symbolic link between notions of 'public e…
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education
The aim of this article is to stretch spatial theorising in the field of comparative education. Among the different spatial theoretical approaches that have been explored in educational research in the last 10 years, we review social topology, spatial-temporalities, and beyond-human spatialities and how they have been used in comparative education research. To illustrate the potential of these approaches we then use them to analyse recent technol…
Latin American Education
Through an account of eight contemporary books that refer to Latin American education, this article offers an interpretation of the processes of construction of 'Latin American discursive space'. The similarities in the principles that dominated the latest educational reforms in the region and the main perspectives that 'explain' these similarities in the literature are taken as the starting point. The article then suggests another interpretation…
Space, knowledge and education policy
Policy spaces, mobile discourses, and the definition of educated identities
The aim of this article is to analyse the circulation of discourse in the global educational field and its relation to local‐specific education policies and practices. The first section examines the logic of networks and relates it to the specificities of the networks of interaction that, it is argued, constitute 'global policy spaces' in education. It is then suggested that the structural attributes and politics of 'global policy spaces' influen…
Pro-market educational governance
In this article we explore ways in which pro-market discourses have been interpreted in policy initiatives in Argentina since the 1970s. Our argument is that even though pro-market discourses have guided reforms in many aspects of public policies in Argentina, the arena of education has overall been resistant to taking them up. The first part of the article analyses the origins of a strong discursive and symbolic link between notions of 'public e…
La comparacion en las ciencias sociales e históricas [Comparison in the social and historical sciences]
edited by Jurgen Schriewer and Hartmut Kaelble, Barcelona/Mexico, ICE, Octaedro, 2010, 302 pp., €24.80 (paperback), ISBN 978‐84‐9921‐023‐0 This book – the text of which is in Spanish – analyses, th
Spatial Theorizing in Comparative and International Education Research
The authors argue for a critical spatial perspective in comparative and international education. We briefly summarize how time and space have been conceptualized within our field. We then review mainstream social science literature that reflects a metanarrative, which we critique for contributing to false dichotomies between space and place and oversimplified views of the relationship between the global and the local. We present some of the key i…
Replacing Old Spatial Empires of the Mind
In this article we argue for the spatialization of research on educational transfer in the field of comparative education within a theoretical framework that focuses on networks, connections, and flows. We present what we call a "spatial empire of the mind," which is comprised of a set of taken-for-granted "truths" about space and place that have legitimized much research in the social sciences. We critique this spatial empire of the mind and pre…
Interpreting the circulation of educational discourse across space
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to analyse the movement of educational discourses across space. After a critique of concepts such as ‘transf…
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
This paper is aimed at exploring the possibilities that the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism can open up for pedagogic practices and, at the same time, the opportunities that pedagogy can provide for the construction of a cosmopolitan global ethics. Our argument is that students (and teachers) are involved in everyday experiences of cosmopolitan encounters and that these can and should be used as a starting point for the development of a cosmop…
Revisiting Jullien in an era of globalisation
In this paper, we discuss some of the ways in which forces of globalisation have transformed the spaces in which educational policies are now developed and practices now enacted. We will consider further the widely held claim that the emergence of these transnational spaces requires new ways of thinking about comparative education. We will examine this claim, referring in particular to the questions proposed by Jullien almost two centuries ago. T…
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
‘Cosmopolitan start-up’ capital
In this paper the authors study 19 Global Middle Class (GMC) families currently residing in four global cities: Hong Kong; London; Buenos Aires; and Tel Aviv. Through qualitative in-depth interviews, they sought to gather insights about GMC parenting strategies, specifically drawing attention to the decision-making processes of school choice. To facilitate their analysis, they draw on Bourdieu’s theory on types of capital and Ben-Porath’s notion …
Beyond Rationality Order and Purpose
Opening access to privilege
The influence of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has grown impressively on a global scale. In Latin America, the IB has been mainly introduced in private schools that cater for the most affluent sectors of society and, consequently, has been mostly interpreted as contributing to processes of social reproduction and the widening of inequalities However, since the mid-2000s the IB has been promoted in state schools in countries such as Ecuador…
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…
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023
Promises promises’
Promising lines of scholarship have emerged on how International Organisations (IO's) deploy anticipatory techniques aimed at colonising the future as a means of governing in the absence of sovereignty.It follows that securing hegemony over a vision of the future is important strategic work for IOs, and a source of legitimacy derived from authority beyond procedure and performance.This is called promissory legitimacy.Yet what happens when this pr…
Robert Cowen, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education, Institute of Education, University College London
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education
The aim of this article is to stretch spatial theorising in the field of comparative education. Among the different spatial theoretical approaches that have been explored in educational research in the last 10 years, we review social topology, spatial-temporalities, and beyond-human spatialities and how they have been used in comparative education research. To illustrate the potential of these approaches we then use them to analyse recent technol…
The unbearable lightness of being” a post-industrial learner
In his 1984 allegorical novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera explores existential questions around freedom and identity, meaning and purpose, in a period of upheaval in Soviet dominated Czechoslovakia. In this paper we draw on the rich symbolism in Kundera’s novel to bring into view upheavals in the social relations underpinning contemporary societies, and the tensions between freedom and com- mitment, lightness and weight that…
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
Sociology (21 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (14 obras) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (13 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Economics (7 obras)