Contradictory rationales behind national education export: tracing the policy formation processes of EDU-Port Japan
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2024
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Takayama, K.
Okitsu, T.
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Comparative Education, online, 2024; online(4):1-19
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National education export strategies are on the rise. Many countries of the Global North brand and export their educational models, with Finland and Singapore doing so on the back of their success in international large-scale education assessments. This article investigates the policy formation processes of EDU-Port Japan, a nationally coordinated education export strategy launched in 2016. Touted as multi-ministerial and public–private partnerships, EDU-Port aims to globally promote and export ‘Japanese-style education’. The article elucidates how EDU-port emerged as a tentative assemblage of contingent political, economic and geopolitical conditions faced by the Japanese state at a specific historical juncture. By illuminating tensions and contradictions within EDU-Port, reflective of the conflicting interests among the diverse policy actors, the article challenges the assumed linearity and coherence of national education export strategies, uncovering complexities often overlooked in current scholarship on national education export.
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Copyright 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)