Science, Globalization, and Educational Governance: The Political Rationalities of the New Managerialism

This paper examines the transformation of educational governance in the era of new public management and the rise of the “enabling state.” Its aim is not simply to critique recent developments, but rather to analyze how power is exercised in the field of education through a new political rationality of governance and corresponding technologies of management. What is evident in education management reforms across the globe is a new way of thinking about the object, regulatory mechanisms, and role of governance.