Simon Marginson Research Articles

Higher Education
Jan 1, 2003
Barbara Zamorski

What Does Globalization Mean for Educational Change? A Comparative Approach

Comparative Education Review
Jan 1, 2002
Carnoy + 1

Economic policy and public education in Australia: A response to Simon Marginson

Melbourne Studies in Education
Jan 1, 1994
Kevin Harris

From cloister to market: the new era in higher education

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsSimon Marginson∗∗ Simon Marginson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne and the author of Education and public policy in Australia (1993), published by Cambridge University Press. This article is partly drawn from doctoral work on the development of markets in Australian education. ∗ Simon Marginson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne and the author of Education and public policy in Australia (1993), published by Cambridge University Press. This article is partly drawn from doctoral work on the development of markets in Australian education.

Journal of Tertiary Education Administration
May 1, 1993
Simon Marginson∗

Comparative Education and World-Systems Analysis

This essay is a call for world-systems analysis of education. Increasingly, the field of comparative education is moving toward more sophisticated examinations of education in relationship to economic, political, and social forces. Studies of the ecology of educational institutions and processes, however, often fail to take into account an international context of transactions. To date, most macro studies of education have taken the nation-state as the basic unit of analysis.' An examination of the international forces impinging upon education systems is no less essential than an examination of the international economic order would be to an