Guest Editors' Introduction: (Re)reading Europe and the World

Governance and the Evolving Global Education Order

“…In addition to governments playing a leading role in pushing for new priorities and interventions, we see international organizations, such as the World Bank and the International Development Bank (IDB), playing an unprecedented role in educational policy development (Acosta & Ruiz, 2018). A particular strand of comparative scholarship conceptualizes this role in neo-imperialist and neo-colonial terms (Klerides et al, 2014;Silova & Auld, 2019;Takayama et al, 2017). The shift to a focus on governance, whilst inspired by Foucauldian understandings of disciplinary power, surveillance and selfmanagement, also explores the new role of the state in managing regimes of control and accountability.…”