Please join editors Chanwoong Baek and Gita Steiner-Khamsi and contributors for a panel discussion of their latest book, The Rise of Knowledge Brokers in Global Education Governance (NORRAG Series on International Education and Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). Their work explores “how policymakers orient themselves in an era of surplus information and presents a multidisciplinary investigation into the growing influence of knowledge brokers, and how they utilize evidence to support education policy and planning. Contributors examine key actors’ roles and strategies, contextual influences, and implications for equity and inclusion in the education sector, giving voice to experts in academia, institutional think tanks, and intergovernmental organizations. Illustrating brokerage concepts through distinct cases, it demonstrates that institutional approaches are markedly different, and highlights the ways in which knowledge brokers have been repurposed to bring about social change, signaling a noticeable shift in the global discourse on education governance.”  (publisher’s description).

Chanwoong Baek is is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations/Political Science Department, with a courtesy appointment in the Anthropology and Sociology Department. He is also UNESCO Co-Chair in Comparative Education Policy and Director of NORRAG. His current research critically assesses the claims made about “evidence-based policymaking” from a comparative and international perspective. In particular, he examines the social dynamics of legitimacy and power on the local, national and global levels, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. For ten years Dr. Steiner-Khamsi worked on multicultural and anti-racist education policies at the Ministry of Education in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. She then became involved in comparative education methods and theories, and in 1995, she joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University. Her widely published research covers: Comparative Policy Studies; Global Governance in Education; and Comparative Methodology.

Following opening remarks and presentation by the editors, the program will include two panel discussions: “Institutional Logics and Efforts in Knowledge Brokerage” and “Local Contexts and Inequalities in Knowledge Brokerage”, with Q&A for each part.

This book talk is organized by NORRAG, the Global Education Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Co-sponsors include: KIX EMAP and the UNESCO Chair Program of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.

Where: Online

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