The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of different approaches to policy movement remain insufficiently discussed.





To address this gap, this book places front and center questions of theory, ontology, epistemology and method related to policy movement. It explores a wide diversity of approaches to help understand the policy movement phenomena, providing a useful guide on global studies in education, as well as insights into the future of this dynamic area of work.

Contributions by: Mellisa Chin, Clara Fontdevila, Steven Lewis, Kalervo N. Gulson, Andrew Wilkins, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, Michael Windzio, Yasin Tunc, Laura Engel, Jisun Jeong, Oshie Nishimura-Sahi, Gerard Ferrer-Esteban, Chenyu Wang, Nelli Piattoeva, Brad Gobby, Andreu Termes, Emiliano Grimaldi, Jordi Collet, Tomas Esper, Marcel Pagès, Oscar Valiente