Course 03121350

Studying
International
Education
Policies
Session 1 11.7/2022
LIYA Tu
• Part I Icebreaking
• Part II Setting the tune for the
class
• Part III Course Syllabus
• Part IV Concept map
 Part I Icebreaking

✓Introduce yourself （using the sentence

patterns“you might not guess”or “you
might be surprised”to share things we
wouldn't have guessed）

✓Draw your image and post it on the class

poster
Part II Setting the tune for class

Comfort Zone
Discomfort Zon

Panic

Discomfort Zone

Panic
Hope Fear
Part III Course Syllabus
✓ Course introduction

✓ Course syllabus
Part IV Concept map
International Organization

Roles and Tasks

Promoting Educational Educational Policies and

Development Initiatives
 Part IV Concept map

• Activity1：What is international
organization? Name some of the different
types of IOs?

• An organization with an international

membership, scope, or presence.
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• Category 1: International nongovernmental
organizations (INGOs)

• (1) International non-profit organizations

• (2) International corporations

 Part II Concept Map
• 2:Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)

• primarily of sovereign states (referred to as member

states)

• The UN has used the term "intergovernmental

organization" instead of "international organization"
for clarity.
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• 3:In between: international organization which is

made up of states and non-state actors

• Non-state actors may include: intergovernmental

organizations, states, state agencies, regional or
municipal governments, in partnerships with non-
governmental organizations, private companies, etc.

• Global Public Policy Networks (GPPNs)

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• OTHER TYPES: REGIONAL / UNIVERSAL

GENERAL / PROFESSIONAL
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• The first international organization in the post-​Napoleonic era
was formed after the Congress of Vienna in 1816—the Central
Commission for the Navigation of the ​Rhine. Since 1816, the
number of international organizations in world politics has
greatly expanded.
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• League of Nations Jan 20th 1920

The first biggest universal and political IO
Enhance the international cooperation and maintaining
international peace and security

• United Nation 1945

• the booming of IOs around the world, nowadays, not
counting the NGOs, the Intergovernmental
organizations(IGOs) and institutions is over 700, many of the
organization have the power to develop their own policy,
especially IGOs.
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• United Nation 1945

• Due to its unique international character, and the powers

vested in its founding Charter, the Organization can take
action on a wide range of issues, and provide a forum for its
193 Member States to express their views, through the
General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and
Social Council and other bodies and committees.
• As of 2013, the Union of International Associations cataloged
1,172 international organizations (IOs) functioning around the
globe. These organizations work in nearly every substantive
area of international politics: trade, security, finance,
environment, development, human rights, science, and
culture. Clearly, international organizations pervade
international life.
 – UN and UNESCO
UNESCO EUDCATIONAL POLICY http://www.unesco.org/en/education

– World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/

World Bank EDUCATIONAL POLICY
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/0,,pagePK:208996~theSite
PK:213799,00.html

– WTO http://www.wto.org/index.htm
• WTO EDUCATIONAL POLICY http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/res_e.htm

– IMF (international monetary fund) http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

IMFEDUCATIONAL POLICY http://www.imf.org/external/ns/search.aspx

– OECD (organization of economic cooperation and development)

http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
OECD EUDCATIONAL POLICY
http://www.oecd.org/searchResult/0,3400,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.h
tml

– IEA International association for the evaluation of educational achievement

http://www.iea.nl/
• IEA Educational evaluation http://timss.bc.edu/
• IBE www.ibe.com
Part IV Concept map
International Organization

Roles and Tasks

Promoting Educational Educational Policies and

Development Initiatives
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• Activity 2：what are the roles of IOs?
• Each one of you will have a handout with IOs
information, form a small group and discuss
(10 mins)

• 1.The general roles of IOs?

• 2.Why many of the IOs put efforts in
promoting EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT?
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• Generally speaking, what are the roles of
IOs?
playing more and more important role in
international affairs:
• International communication and cooperation
(social, cultural, economic, political~)
• Dispute settlement and problem solving
• Enhancing world peace and development
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• Why Education?
• (1) Education is the fundamental human right , and is
essential and indispensable for the exercise of all other
human rights and for development, It becomes the common
pursuit of general development.
• (2) Education is considered as an important tool in promoting
economic growth and social development, especially after
WWII, stressing its importance for economic development.
1960 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a
resolution stressing the importance of education for
economic development

• Resnik, J. (2006) International organizations, the "Education-Economic

Growth" black box, and the development of world education culture.
Comparative Education Review, 50(2): 173-197
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• （3）rethinking education as a global

common good, education can be seen in
terms of a social contract- an implicit
agreement among members of a society
to cooperate for shared benefit. It is not
only for individual, community or even a
single nation state, but the fundamental
essence for the sustainable development
of the global world.
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International Organization

Roles and Tasks

Promoting Educational Educational Policies and

Development Initiatives
• Try to surf online and explore important
international organizations related with
education and try to identify education
hotspots of general concern to these
international organizations, take one or two
IOs as exemplars, and also reflect on your
concerns.(note down and bring to next
session)
• Policy Reading 1
• Chapter1: the policy phenomenon
• What is policy？
• Chapter 2 perceptions of policy

(understand education policy from different perspectives)

• Reanding2：
• Educational globalization and national policy making
• Globalization, the state and education policy making

( What is globalization？How globalization will

influence national policy making？What are the
challenges or risks of globalization toward educational
policy making ？)