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Instrument constituencies and the brokering of OECD-knowledge in Nordic school reforms - a three country comparison

Sivesind, Kirsten; Nordin, Andreas; Ydesen, Christian (2024). Instrument constituencies and the brokering of OECD-knowledge in Nordic school reforms - a three country comparison. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy:Epub ahead of print.

Abstract

Major international surveys and reports have considerably altered the expectations and outlooks of national policymakers in education over the last three decades. Through a comparative content analysis of bibliographies in policy documents, this article explores the intermediary bodies that facilitate salient interconnections between international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policymakers and experts who prepare comprehensive school reforms in three Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This article builds on a large Nordic research project that studied the transfer and translation of international policies in a Nordic reform context. It extends the study by examining the role of publishers as intermediary policy brokers that legitimize the usage of OECD knowledge as significant members of instrument constituencies. This study enhances our understanding of the variations in citation patterns across policy documents from three Nordic countries. It also investigates the extent to which differences in instrumental constituencies arise from institutional arrangements and the ideational foundations underpinning reform trajectories. Additionally, it examines the topics addressed by these reforms and the governments’ affiliations with new policy brokers supported by both public and private publishers.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Education
Dewey Decimal Classification:370 Education
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Education
Uncontrolled Keywords:Nordic education, comparative education, policy brokers, citation analysis, instrument constituencies, bibliometrics
Language:English
Date:3 November 2024
Deposited On:10 Jan 2025 16:25
Last Modified:11 Jan 2025 21:01
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
ISSN:2002-0317
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2024.2419480
Project Information:
  • Funder: Research Council of Norway
  • Grant ID: 283467
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