Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes:

Introduction 1. New Education In New Times2. Localization/Globalization and the Midwife State3. Education, Nation States and the Globalization of Information Networks4. The Lessons of International Education Reform5. Specifying Globalization Effects on National Policy 6. Educational Change and New Cleavages Between Head Teachers, Teachers and Parents7. In Search of Structure8. Subjected to Review: Engendering Quality and Power in Higher Education9. Bodies are Dangerous10 Policy Archaeology11. Critical Policy Sociology12. The Construction and Deconstruction of Educational Policy Documents13. Community, Philosophy and Education Policy14. Towards a View of Policy Analysis as Practical Reason15. Critical Inter/Multicultural Education and the Process of Transnationalisation16. Macroecological Reforms as a Strategy for Reducing Educational Risks Associated with Poverty17. Renovating Educational Identites: Policy, Space and Urban Renewal18. Power, Pedagogy and Persuasion19. Framing Justice 20. Progress at School and School Effectiveness21. Equity in Educational Policy