TY - JOUR

T1 - Mobilities of policy and mobile parents

T2 - creating a new dynamic in policy borrowing within state schooling

AU - Yemini, Miri

AU - Maxwell, Claire

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - In this article, we focus on the transformations imposed on schools by individual parents, arguing that schools as modern organisations change not only through top-down pressures orchestrated by an array of international organisations, for-profit companies and media as shown in previous research, but also through the agency of mobile parents, who seek to import reforms from elsewhere, based on their previous schooling experiences abroad. We focus on a specific group of middle class parents, who are continuously mobile, moving between global cities for employment. This paper brings into the discussion the role of individual parental strategies as they seek to promote education policy-borrowing. By applying the theoretical lens of stakeholder identification and salience, using a multi case study research design, we suggest that parents express high levels of power, legitimacy and a sense of urgency, thus being able to successfully advocate for change. We argue that while exploring organisational reform occurring due to the globalisation of education, we must view parents as central actors in this new space.

AB - In this article, we focus on the transformations imposed on schools by individual parents, arguing that schools as modern organisations change not only through top-down pressures orchestrated by an array of international organisations, for-profit companies and media as shown in previous research, but also through the agency of mobile parents, who seek to import reforms from elsewhere, based on their previous schooling experiences abroad. We focus on a specific group of middle class parents, who are continuously mobile, moving between global cities for employment. This paper brings into the discussion the role of individual parental strategies as they seek to promote education policy-borrowing. By applying the theoretical lens of stakeholder identification and salience, using a multi case study research design, we suggest that parents express high levels of power, legitimacy and a sense of urgency, thus being able to successfully advocate for change. We argue that while exploring organisational reform occurring due to the globalisation of education, we must view parents as central actors in this new space.

KW - Mobility

KW - organisation

KW - parents

KW - policy borrowing

U2 - 10.1080/14767724.2020.1764337

DO - 10.1080/14767724.2020.1764337

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85085496909

VL - 19

SP - 70

EP - 80

JO - Globalisation, Societies and Education

JF - Globalisation, Societies and Education

SN - 1476-7724

IS - 1

ER -