Plus ca change …the world bank global education policy and the post-washington consensus

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Bonal
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Washington Consensus ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Education Policy

scholarly journals Educational aid, symbolic power and policy reform: The World Bank in Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tebeje Molla
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
National Education ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
Sub Saharan

The World Bank uses a combination of financial and non-financial aid to influence educational reform in aid-recipient countries. Drawing on an interpretive policy analysis methodology and using Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic power as a 'thinking tool', this article aims to shed light on the Bank's non-financial pathways of policy influence in the Ethiopian higher education policy space. Specifically, it identifies knowledge-based policy regulatory instruments of the Bank, including sector reviews, advisory activities, analytical reports and learning events. The key argument is that in order to understand the full extent of donor power in national education policy fields in sub-Saharan Africa, it is imperative to problematize less visible discursive means of policy imposition.

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