Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the senior advisor of a five-country comparative study on “Policy Knowledge and Lesson-Drawing in Nordic School Reform in an Era of International Comparison,” which involves a social network analysis of school reforms in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. This project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and lasts for four years. Dr. Oren Pizmony-Levy and doctoral student Chanwoong Baek from our program are also part of this research team. The first article on the findings was published in the spring of 2018. The second publication, written by Dr. Steiner-Khamsi with Dr. Berit Karseth (University of Oslo) and Chanwoong Baek (Teachers College) will be published in 2019.
As Director of the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG) in Geneva, she spearheads research, policy and training initiatives related to global governance, philanthropy in education, and public-private partnership. Two examples illustrating the scope of the work are: First, NORRAG has been supporting the drafting of the Guiding Principles on the State’s Obligation towards free, public, equitable education for all. International Humanitarian Rights lawyers are working to specify the legal issues that governments need to account for when they collaborate with the private sector. Second, Dr. Steiner-Khamsi is collaborating on a research project on Innovative Financing in developing countries funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (COFER/ SUDAC) being carried out by three universities in Switzerland, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town, Beijing Normal University, and the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina). This project, which will produce teaching materials on innovative financing and new philanthropy in education and reflect on the opportunities and risks of these new funding modalities, involves two TC alumna: Dr. Arushi Terway, as the project director, and Dr. Cathryn Magno, University of Fribourg, as the head of research collaboration.
Dr. Steiner-Khamsi’s recent publications are listed below.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is a Professor in the International and Comparative Education Program.
Steiner-Khamsi, G. & Waldow F. (Eds). (2018). Special Issue: PISA for scandalisation, PISA for projection: the use of international large-scale assessments in education policy making. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16:5, 557-565.
Draxler, A. & Steiner-Khamsi, G. (Eds.). (2018). The State, Business and Education. Public-Private Partnerships Revisited. NORRAG Series on International Education and Development.
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Gorur, R., Sellar S., & Steiner-Khamsi, G. (Eds). (2018). World Yearbook of Education. Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks. New York: Routledge.
Steiner-Khamsi, G. & Waldow, F. (Eds). (2019). Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness: Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies. London: Bloomsbury.
Parreira do Amaral, M., Steiner-Khamsi, G., & Thompson, C. (Eds.) (2019). Researching the Global Education Industry — Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement. New York and London: Palgrave.