In March 2019 students and researchers from Germany the USA China Kenya and South Africa
came together at the University of Tuebingen to discuss Educational Governance from an
international perspective. The group was mainly comprised of Ph.D.- and Master-students from
various disciplines - Education Literature Philosophy Political Science - and debated
questions such as: What are the distinctive and different rationales underlying the discourse
of Educational Governance and its political economic academic and pedagogic objectives? How
can we make these rationales visible and which theories and analytic tools can help us to
decipher the meanings attached to them? Are there different local and national trajectories in
education discourse and practice with regard to Educational Governance and which role do
international organizations and transnational transfer play? This edited volume displays these
discussions and aims at initiating a broader communication about Educational Governance between
previously separated spaces.
