Short Biography & Significant Contribution

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is full professor of Education at the University of Muenster, Germany. Parreira do Amaral teaches and researches in the field Comparative and International Education, Policy Studies, Lifelong Learning and Social Pedagogy. His current research focuses international educational policy and governance issues at various levels and scales. More recently, his work concentrated on the emergence and expansion of a Global Education Industry (GEI) and on how it is transforming conceptualizations of ‘good’ education. His research on (new) providers and policy actors within education aims at analyzing the possible consequences for education research, policy and practice. Beyond discerning particular expressions and manifestations of the GEI phenomenon in international contexts, it also looks into the rationales, processes and impacts of the GEI developments.

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral has collaborated and coordinated several national and international research projects. From 2010 to 2013, he was member of the coordination of the GOETE project (Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective, www.goete.eu). Parreira do Amaral coordinates the ongoing project “YOUNG ADULLLT” (Policies Supporting Young People in their Life Course. A Comparative Perspective of Lifelong Learning and Inclusion in Education and Work in Europe, www.young-adulllt.eu), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Research Framework.

Prof. Dr. Parreira do Amaral has made significant contributions to conceptual, theoretical and empirical research on the international dimension of education policy and governance.

Educational Background

He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies (Magister Artium) in Education and American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2006) and a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. soc.) in Education Sciences from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2011).

Affiliations (associations, organizations, institutions)

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft

German Society for Intercultural, International and Comparative Education (SIIVE-DGfE) – President (2015-2017)

World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) – Member, Research Standing Committee (2014 – 2016)

WWU Centre for Europe (https://www.ce.uni-muenster.de/en) – Executive Board member.

Selected Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

Researching the Global Education Industry – Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement. Edited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Christiane Thompson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe: Pathways, Policy and Practice. Edited with Andreas Walther, Morena Cuconato & Roger Dale (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016).

Distributing Life Chances through the Governance of Educational Trajectories, Edited with Roger Dale and Patricia Loncle (Oxford: Symposium Books, 2015).

Access to and Accessibility of Education throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe, Edited with Barbara Stauber und Eduardo Barberis. Special Issue of European Education, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2015).

Internationale und Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft – Grundlegende Zugänge und aktuelle Forschungsfelder, Series New Frontiers in Comparative Education, Vol 2. Edited with S. Karin Amos (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2015).

Deregulierung im Bildungswesen, Edited with Sabine Hornberg (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2012).

Emergenz eines Internationalen Bildungsregimes? International Educational Governance und Regimetheorie. Series New Frontiers in Comparative Education, Vol 1. (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2011).

The Influence of Transnational Organizations on National Education Systems. Series Europäische Hochschulschriften (Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2006).

Chapters and Articles

Influencing the Other. Transnational actors and knowledge transfer in education. In Middell, Matthias (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. (London, Routledge, 2018).

Embedding Education Research in the European Economic Imaginary? In Parreira do Amaral, M., Steiner-Khamsi, G. & Thompson, C. (Eds.), Researching the Global Education Industry – Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Changing Education in the GEI – Rationales, Logics and Modes of Operation. In Parreira do Amaral, M., Steiner-Khamsi, G. & Thompson, C. (Eds.), Researching the Global Education Industry – Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with Christiane Thompson).

Die Konzeptualisierung von Bildungsverläufen Jugendlicher: eine Governance-Perspektive auf Lebenslauf. In: Langer, Roman & Brüsemeister, Thomas (Eds.),
Handbuch Educational Governance Theorien (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018, with Sieglinde Jornitz).

Leistungen und Grenzen internationaler und vergleichender Forschung – ‚Regulative Ideen‘ für die methodologische Reflexion? Tertium Comparationis 24, Nr. 1: 05-31 (2018, with Sarah Lange).

Comparative and International Education in Germany: A Discussion of current Trends. In Wiseman, Alexander W. & Anderson, Emily (Eds.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2015 (pp. 127-135). (Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016, with Hans-Georg Kotthoff).

 Teaching Comparative and International Education: Bridging Social Demands for Practical Performance-based Competencies with Critical Reflectivity. In Kubow, Patricia K. and Blosser, Allison (Eds.), Teaching Comparative Education: Trends and Issues Informing Practice (pp. 183-201). (Bristol: Symposium Books, 2016, with Sabine Hornberg).

Neue Akteure der Governance des Bildungssystems – Einflussmöglichkeiten und Instrumente. In Altrichter, Herbert & Maag Merki, Katharina (Eds.), Handbuch Neue Steuerung im Schulsystem (S. 455-477), 2nd edn. (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2016).

Created: 07/10/2018

Contributed by: Dr. Sarah Lange, University of Bamberg