Special Issues

Journal of International Cooperation in Education

"Decolonizing" the Global Governance of Education? Exploring the Possibility of Alternative and Multiple Onto-Epistemologies in Global Education Policy​

​​D. Brent Edwards Jr., Taeko Okitsu, & Oshie Nishimura
This special issue advocates for and explores the incorporation of alternative and multiple epistemologies in the global governance of education. While literature critiquing the Western foundations of global education policy has grown in recent years, there are scant studies that address whether or not (or the extent to which) it is possible for various actors to “decolonize,” that is, to move in a decolonial direction. The special issue highlights scholarship that approaches “global education governance” from non-traditional, alternative, or, indeed, subversive perspectives informed by decolonial critique.

Comparative Education

The Global Education Policy Field:
​Theorization and Problematization
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​D. Brent Edwards Jr.
 The contributions to this special issue have a common point of departure: that it is possible and necessary to go beyond the established approaches to investigating global education policy (rooted in, e.g., international political economy, World Culture Theory, policy sociology, international relations, Critical Discourse Analysis, etc.). As typically applied, these approaches tend not to engage with the capitalist, racist, sexist, etc. origins of the GEP field, nor with the way that the GEP field and its attendant scholarship is entangled with—and, indeed, directs attention away from—the enduring legacies of Anglo-European colonial logics, political practices, and onto-epistemologies.

Full special issue here. Intro essay here.

International Journal of Educational Development

Critical Perspectives at the Midpoint of SDG4

D. Brent Edwards Jr., Niaz Asadullah, & Amber Webb
This special issue reflects on the gaps in–-and limitations of–-development planning that may not have been apparent in 2015. It also interrogates progress made (or not made) towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 28 contributions spread across five sections: (a) perspectives on progress; (b) governance and state capacity; (c) measurement and metrics; (d) resilience, adaptiveness, and partnerships in vulnerable contexts; and (e) geo-political and onto-epistemic considerations.

Full special issue available here. Intro essay here.

Educational Policy

Sociological Contributions to School Choice Policy and Politics Around the Globe

Amanda Potterton, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Ee-Seul Yoon, & Jeanne Powers

The special issue raises the profile of sociological research on school choice and documents how school choice policies and programs can be understood through a sociological lens, with a focus on how stakeholders perceive, experience, and respond to these reforms in local settings. The 12 contributions are grouped in three sections: (a) strategies and responses of schools and families to school choice policies; (b) sociology of school choice politics and education markets; and (c) conflict and competition for resources in organizational and regulatory contexts.

​Full issue here. Intro essay here.

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Globalization, privatization, and marginalization: Assessing connections and consequences in/through education

D. Brent Edwards Jr. & Alex Means
This special issue brings together scholars who are working on new aspects of the intersection and implications of globalization, privatization, and marginalization. We extend scholarship in these areas by examining the current connections and continuing consequences of both globalization and privatization for marginalization in/through education, as well as the ways in which the latter (marginalization) creates opportunities for the former (globalization and privatization).