Knowledge Policy

ADVISOR: Is there anything else I can help you with?
STUDENT: Yes, the reading list is quite long. Where do you think I should start?
ADVISOR: Well, I’d suggest you leave the articles until the semester is under way, but a good preparation would be to look at some of the major texts: these ones here.
STUDENT: In any particular order?
ADVISOR: You could start with this one by Tower here at the bottom of the page.
STUDENT: Sorry? Who?
ADVISOR: Tower T-O-W-E-R, 2007: Comparative Education. That should give you a good basis. Then move on to Elliot: Educational Issues of the New Millennium--but be sure to get the 2008 edition not the original 1998 edition because so much has changed since 1998. The new edition has extensive revisions and a lot of new material.
STUDENT: Okay, so that’s Tower first, then Elliot. I think I could handle a couple more over the summer break.
ADVISOR: Well, in that case, look for Brown’s Education and globalization published in 2009—actually there are quite a few books by Brown but I’d start with that one and leave his others till much later...and I’d also really recommend this one here: globalization and Knowledge Policy by York published quite recently in fact—2010.