EDITORIAL What Kinds of Democracy in Education are Facilitated by Supra- and Transnational Agencies?

In recent years, political rhetoric in many parts of the world has tended to take a reductionist view of education and educational research. It often seems that the pivotal challenge in education is how to help pupils acquire basic skills such as literacy and numeracy in order to become competitive in the job market, in business and industry. Thus, the key purpose of educational research is t