I. Part 1: Globalizing policy and research in education
1. Universities, the internet and the global education market
2. Accountability in US educational research and the travels of governance
3. Crossing borders: the European dimension in educational and social science research
4. International policy research: ‘evidence’ from CERI/OECDI
5. A European perspective on international arenas for educational research
II. Part 2: Research steering in national contexts
6. Toward new government of education research: refashioning researchers as entrepreneurial and ethical subjects
7. The steering of educational policy research in neoliberal times: the case of Argentina
8. The steering of educational research in post-soviet Russia : tradition and challenge
9. The politics of educational research in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia: discourses of globalization, nationalism and education
10. Research as consultancy in the African university: a challenge to excellence
11. Redesigning what counts as evidence in educational policy: the Singapore model
12. Performativity, measurement and research: a critique of performance-based research funding in New Zealand
13. Global trends towards education and science: tension and resistance
14. Neoliberalism liberally applied: educational policy borrowing in central Asia
15. Marketing academic issues: to what extent does education policy steer education research in Spain?
16. Competition and interaction between research knowledge and state knowledge in policy steering in France: national trends and recent effects of decentralization and globalization
17. Educational policy research in the people’s republic of China
III. Part 3: global local politics of educational research
18. Knowledge beyond the knowledge economy : merely cultural? Merely commercial? Merely civilizing?
19. After methodolatry: epistemological challenges for ‘risky’ educational research
20. Policy scholarship against de politicization