Tracing future education reforms: policy mobilities within and between Taiwanese, Australian and global networks

Abstract

The global policy discourse surrounding future education has propelled reform movements worldwide. This study explores the policy mobilities and assemblage of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL), an edu-business that has rapidly expanded to promote its distinct future learning models. Specifically, it investigates the adaptation of NPDL policy within Taiwan, while concurrently exploring the service provided by the NPDL global network, and the transnational policy learning between Taiwan and Australia. First, we analyse the integration of NPDL into Taiwan’s national reform agendas by tracing the interactions amongst diverse actors and organisations. Second, we explore the policy recontextualisation process by following Taiwanese policy actors as they travel to Sydney to engage with their Australian counterparts. A central argument is that future education policy is shaped beyond national borders and continuously evolves through the interplay of (sub)national, transnational, and global actors, where ideas and practices are reconfigured as they move across spaces.