The history of the present helps reduce insecurities and provides legitimacy for an educational agenda that aims to prepare students for unknown futures.  -- Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Time in Education Policy Transfer: The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform, p. 230.

Please join Gita Steiner-Khamsi for a discussion of her latest book, Time in Education Policy Transfer: The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform (Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025). This open access publication draws on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology to help us understand "when the current school reform, known as the school-autonomy-with-accountability reform, developed into a global script, why it conquered the globe, and how it was selectively adopted and translated into each local context," with perspective on the role of the OECD and World Bank (publisher's description).

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She also holds an honorary appointment as UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a past president of the Comparative and International Education Society, former editor of the World Yearbook of Education, served five years as the academic director of NORRAG, and currently serves as a lead co-editor for the section Qualitative Comparative Policy Studies of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Before her academic career, she worked for nearly ten years at the Ministry of Education of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, where she established and directed the first department in charge of multicultural education policies. She published fourteen books and numerous journal articles on policy borrowing, comparative policy studies, and global governance in education. Her work has been published in several languages, including Mongolian.

Presenters via Zoom:

• Chanwoong Baek, Academic Director, NORRAG, UNESCO Co-Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute
• Tomás Esper, PhD in International and Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Iveta Silova, Professor and Associate Dean, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
• Arushi Terway, Senior Lead Research Associate, NORRAG

This global hybrid event (with translation into Russian and Arabic for remote attendees), is co-sponsored by NORRAG, the Global Education Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute; KIX EMAP, the Department of International and Transcultural Studies, and the Gottesman Libraries.

Preview a long or short interview with Gita Steiner Khamsi produced by the Digital Futures Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University. Facilitating discussion is Mia Chin, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Also be sure to visit the NORRAG page for additional information.

Where: 285 Grace Dodge (moved from 306 Russell)

or Register HERE for online attendance. 

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