Policy Transfer and Isomorphism
A Case Study of the England-China Maths Teacher Exchange
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8408604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Probert (0000-0003-3955-5719, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 305-321 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2021.1926915 |
| OpenAlex | W3170464616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
Global policy transfer has become increasingly popular in recent years, and one recent example of such policy transfer is the England–China Teacher Exchange, which was initiated in 2014 with the explicit aim of raising attainment in maths in English primary schools by trialling concepts used in Shanghai schools, Shanghai rising to the top of the PISA rankings in 2009. However, as this paper will argue this is an overly simplistic attempt to transfer a policy between two wholly different contexts, the lack of success of the policy seen in the very limited impact on student attainment in the participating schools. Whilst such policy transfer has increasingly taken place in the context of isomorphism and global pressures to adopt policy from high performing education systems, it is argued that policy needs to be explicitly reconsidered in terms of the local context it is being imported into if it is to be embedded in an effective manner, as well as rooted firmly in research. It is also argued that the England–China Teacher Exchange reflects a broader ideological focus in coalition government policy on the marketisation of education alongside the PISA rankings, rather any wider consideration of how this particular policy would drive up standards
China · Context (archaeology) · Education policy · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Higher education · Ideology · Isomorphism (crystallography) · Policy transfer · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Toward a Theory of Instruction
China-England Mathematics Teacher Exchange and Its Impact
Alluring Ideas
The ‘new Orientalism’
Chinese responses to Shanghai’s performance in Pisa
Globalisation, knowledge economy and comparative education
Governing by numbers
Travelling and embedded policy
Neoliberalism and the (internal) marketisation of primary school assessment in England
Learning Stories as cross-national policy borrowing
Is the National Numeracy Strategy Research-based
Looking East
The Iron Cage Revisited
Mastery learning
World Society and the Nation-State
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |