Research

Articles in Refereed Journals

  1. Read, R., Fernandez-Hermosilla, S. Anderson & K. Mundy. (2016). Identifying Research Priorities for School Improvement in the Developing World. Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 18(1), 55-67.
  2. Mundy, K.(2016). “Leaning in” on Education for All,” Comparative Education Review60, no. 1 (February 2016): 1-26.
  3. Mundy, K. and Verger, A. (2015).  The World Bank and the Global Governance of Education in a Changing World Order.  International Journal of Educational Development (2015), pp. 9-18
  4. Mundy, K. and F. Menashy (2014). The World Bank and the Private Provision of Schooling:  A Look through the Lens of Sociological Theories of Organizational Hypocrisy. Comparative Education Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (August 2014), pp. 401-427
  5. Mundy, K. & F. Menashy. (2014). Investing in private education for poverty alleviation: The case of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. The International Journal of Educational Development. 35 (1-2, March): pp. 16-24.
  6. Zha, Qiang and Mundy, Karen, Guest Editors. (2012). Introduction to Special Guest Edited Volume:Education and Cross Cultural Dialogue: A Century of Mutual Communication between Confucian China and the Christian West. A special issue of Frontiers of Education in China, Vol. 7, Issue 3.
  7. Mundy, K. (January 2011). “全球治理与教育变革：国际与跨国教育政策过程研究的重要性” (Global Governance and Educational Change: The Importance of Research on Transnational and International Policy Processes in Education)). Peking University Education Review, January 10, 2011, pp. 136-152.
  8. Mundy, K. (2010). “Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid.” Special Symposium Issue. Current Issues in Comparative Education. Vol. 13(1)/Fall 2010: pp. 50-56. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Issues/13.01/PDFs/13_01_Mundy.pdf
  9. *Mundy, K., with M. Haggerty, M. Sivasubramaniam, S. Cherry and R. Maclure, (2010). “Civil Society, Basic Education and Sector-wide Aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa.” Special Issue on State/non-state relationships in achieving Education for All, Pauline Rose, guest editor.   Development In Practice. Vol. 20(4-5), pp. 484-497.[Lead author].
  10. Benavot, A, D. Archer, S. Mosely, K. Mundy, F. Phiri, L. Steer, D. Wiking. (2010). “International Aid to Education: Moderated Discussion.”  Comparative Education Review. Vol. 54(1): pp. 105-124.[Invited comment]
  11. *McGinty, S and K. Mundy. (2009).  “HIV/AIDS educators: The challenges and issues for Namibian bachelor of education students.” Teaching and Teacher Education. Vol. 25 (1): 141–148.[Co-author with student].
  12. *Mundy, K. & Manion, C. (2008). “Global Education in Canadian Elementary Schools: An Exploratory Study”. Canadian Journal of Education.  31 (4): pp. 941‐974. [Lead author with student].http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE31-4/CJE31-4-Mundy&Manion.pdf
  13. Mundy, K. ( March 2008). “From NGOs to CSOs: Social Citizenship, Civil Society and “Education for All” – An Agenda for Further Research.”  Current Issues in Comparative Education. 10(2): pp.1-9. Available online http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Issues/10.00/PDFs/10_Complete_Issue.pdf
  14. Mundy, K. (2007). “Global Governance, Educational Change.”  Comparative Education. 43(3), pp. 39-58.
  15. Smith, P., Pigozzie, M.J., Tomasevski, K., Bhola, H. S., Kuroda, K. & Mundy, K. (2007). “UNESCO’s Role in Educational Development: Moderated Discussion.”  Comparative Education Review. 51(2), pp. 229-245. [Invited comment]
  16. Mundy K.(2006). “Education for All and the New Development Compact.”  Review of Education. 52, pp. 23-48.
  17. *Mundy, K. & Iga, M. (2003). “Hegemonic Exceptionalism and Legitimating Bet-Hedging: Making Sense of the American and Japanese Approaches to the Education Services under the GATS.” Globalization, Societies, Education. 1(3), pp.281-297.[Lead author with student].
  18. Mundy, K. (2002). “Retrospect and prospect: Education in a Reforming World Bank.”  International Journal of Educational Development, 22(5), pp. 483-508.
  19. *Mundy, K., & L. Murphy. (2001). “Transnational Advocacy, Global Civil Society? Emerging Evidence from the Field of Education.”Comparative Education Review, 45(1), pp.85-126 .[Lead author with student].
  20. Mundy, K. (1999). “Educational Multilateralism in a Changing World Order: UNESCO and the Limits of the Possible.” International Journal of Educational Development, 19(1), pp. 27-52.
  21. Mundy, K. (1998). “Educational Multilateralism and World (dis)Order.” Comparative Education Review, 42(4), pp. 448-478.
  22. Mundy, K.(1995). “CIDA’s Programming in Zambia and Zimbabwe: A Retrospective Look through the “Lens “of Human Resources Development.”Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 16(3), pp. 433-454.
  23. Mundy, K.(1993). “Towards a Critical Analysis of Literacy in Southern Africa.” Comparative Education Review. 37(4), pp.389-411.
  24. Mundy, K. (1993). “The Case for Universal Primary Education Revisited:The Tanzanian and Zimbabwean Experience in Comparative and International Perspective.” Canadian and International Education. 22(1), pp.22-42.
  25. Mundy, K. (1992). “Human Resources Development Assistance in Canada’s Overseas Development Assistance Program: A Critical Analysis,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies.8 (3), pp.385-409.

Books and Monographs (*= refereed)

  1. Mundy,K, A. Green, B. Lingard and T. Verger. (Eds.) (2016). Handbook of Global Education Policy. Handbook of Global Policy Series, D. Held Series Editor.  John Wiley and Sons.
  2. Mundy K. and Qiang Zha, eds. (2012). Education and Global Cultural Dialogue:  Essays in Honour of Professor Ruth Hayhoe.  Palgrave MacMillan.324 pp.
  3. *Robertson, S., K. Mundy, A. Verger & F. Menashy (Eds.) (2012). Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globaliziing World.London: Edward Elgar.
  4. *Mundy, K. and S. Dryden Peterson. (Eds). (2011). Educating Children in Conflict Zones:Essays in Honour of Jackie Kirk. New York:  Teachers College Press.[Lead editor]. 336 pages.
  5. *Mundy, K. Bickmore, K., Hayhoe, R., Madden, M., & Madjidi, K. (Eds.). (2010 2ndedition, 2015).   Comparative Education:  Issues for Teachers.  New York & Toronto:  Teachers College Press & Canadian Scholars Press. [Lead editor]. 394 pages.
  6. Mundy, K.,Manion, C., Masemann, V., & Haggerty, M. (2007). Charting Global Education in Canadian Schools:  Provincial, District and School Level Perspectives.  Toronto:  [Also in French translation]. [Lead author]. 148 pages. http://globalclassroom.unicef.ca/pdf/ChartingGlobalEducationinElementarySchools.pdf
  7. *Moulton, J., Mundy, K., Welmond, M., & Williams, J. (2002).Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Paradigm Lost?  Westport: Greenwood Press. [Co-equal authored book]. 250 pages.

Book Chapters

  1. Mundy, K. & Read, R. (2017). “Education for All,” Africa, and the comparative sociology of schooling. In K. Bickmore, R. Hayhoe, C. Manion, K. Mundy and R. Read (eds.), Comparative and international education: Issues for teachers, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
  2. Hayhoe, R., Manion, C. & Mundy, K. (2017). Why study comparative education? In K. Bickmore, R. Hayhoe, C. Manion, K. Mundy and R. Read (eds.), Comparative and international education: Issues for teachers, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
  3. Chmielewski, A.K., Mundy, K. & Farrell, J. (2017). International education indicators and assessment: Issues for teachers. In K. Bickmore, R. Hayhoe, C. Manion, K. Mundy and R. Read (eds.), Comparative and international education: Issues for teachers, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
  4. Mundy, K., A. Green, B. Lingard and A. Verger. (2016). Introduction: The Globalization of Education Policy – Key Approaches and Debates. In K. Mundy, A. Green, R. Lingard and A. Verger (Eds.) Handbook of Global Policy and Policy Making in Education. West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1-42.
  5. Mundy, K. and Verger, A. (2016). “The World Bank and the Global Governance of Education in a Changing World Order”. In Mundy, A. Green, R. Lingard and A. Verger (Eds.) Handbook of Global Policy and Policy Making in Education. West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell. Pp. 335-356.
  6. Silova, I., R. Read and K. Mundy. (2016). The Mobilization of Knowledge. In E. Epstein (Ed.) Crafting a Global Field: Six Decades of the Comparative and International Education Society, Hong Kong: Springer, pp. 155-167.
  7. Mundy, K.and T. Verger.  (2015).  The World Bank as an Education Policy Governor.  Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance. In A. Kaasch, and K. Martens.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 64-80.
  8. Mundy, K. and C. Manion. (2015). The Education for All Initiative: History and Prospects Post-2015, In E. Unterhalter and T. McCowan, eds., Education and International Development: an Introduction.  London:  Bloomsbury Academic Press.
  9. *Menashy, F., Mundy& M. Afridi. (2014) The role of the World Bank in the private provision of education in Nepal and Pakistan. In I. Macpherson, S. Robertson and G. Walford (Eds.) Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: Case Studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. Oxford: Symposium Books.
  10. *Mundy, K. and C. Manion. 2014. “Globalization and Global Governance in Education.”  Chapter 3 in N. Stromquist and K. Monkman, eds., Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation Across Cultures, pp. 39-54.
  11. Mundy, K.(2012). From International Relations in Education to the Study of Global Governance:  Ruth Hayhoe’s Legacy.  In Mundy K. and Qiang Zha, eds.  Education and Global Cultural Dialogue:  Essays in Honour of Professor Ruth Hayhoe. Palgrave Macmillan, 324 pp.
  12. *Mundy, K. & F. Menashy (2012). “The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and private sector participation in basic education: Examining the Education Sector Strategy 2020.” In A. Wiseman & C. Collins (Eds.) Education Strategy in the Developing World: A Conversation about the World Bank’s Education Policy Development and Revision. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, p. 111-113.
  13. Robertson, S., K. Mundy, A. Verger & F. Menashy. (2012.) “An introduction to public private partnerships and education governance.” In S. Robertson, K. Mundy, A. Verger & F. Menashy (Eds.) Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World. London: Edward Elgar, p. 1-17.
  14. *Mundy, K. & F. Menashy. (2012). “The role of the International Finance Corporation in the promotion of public private partnerships for educational development.” In Robertson, K. Mundy, A. Verger & F. Menashy (Eds.) Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World. London: Edward Elgar, p. 81-103
  15. Mundy, K. (2012). “The Global Campaign for Education and the Realization of “E.ducation for All.” In Verger, A. and M. Novelli (eds). 2012. Campaigning For ‘Education For All’: Histories, Strategies and Outcomes of Transnational Social Movements in Education.Sense, Rotterdam.
  16. *Mundy, K. and S. Dryden Peterson.(2011).“Educating Children in Zones of Conflict: An overview and introduction.” Educating Children in Conflict Zones: Essays in Honour of Jackie Kirk.  International Perspectives on Educational Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 1-13.[
  17. *Mundy, K., with M. Haggerty, S. Cherry, R. Maclure and M. Sivasubramaniam (2010). “Civil Society, Basic Education, and Sector-wide Aid: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa.” In P. Rose, ed. Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships? Non-state provision of education in developing countries. Routledge Press. Pp.1-22.
  18. Mundy, K.  (2010). “Education for All and the Global Governors.”  In M. Finnemore, D. Avant and S. Sell, Eds.  Who Governs the Globe? Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, pp. 333-355.
  19. Mundy, K. (2010). “Global Governance in the Field of Education: The Role of Multilateralism and New Actors in the Achievement of Education for All.” Education Reform and Research in the Era of Transition: Responsibility and the Future. [Published volume from the Beijing Forum 2010]. Pp. 230-245.
  20. Mundy, K. and M. Madden. (2009). “UNESCO and Higher Education: Opportunity or Impasse.” In A. Almanado & R. M. Basset, International Organizations and Higher Education Policy:  Thinking Globally and Acting Locally?  International Studies in Higher Education Series.   New York: Taylor and Francis.  46-63.[Lead author with student].
  21. Mundy, K., (with M. Ghali). (2009). “International and Transnational Policy Actors in Education: A Review of the Research.” In D. Plank, G. Sykes and B. Schneider, Eds.,Handbook on Educational Policy Research.  The American Education Research Association & Routledge Press, pp. 717-734.[Lead author with student].
  22. Mundy, K. (2008). “Global Politics and Local Realities in the Realization of the Universal Right to Education.” In Moore & R. Mitchell (Eds.), Power, Pedagogy and Praxis:Social Justice in the Globalized Classroom. Rotterdam:Sense Press. Pp.105-124.
  23. Mundy, K. & Hayhoe, R. (2008). “Introduction to Comparative and International Education: Why Study Comparative Education?” Chapter 1, In K. Mundy, K. Bickmore, R. Hayhoe, M. Madden & K. Madjidi, (Eds.), Comparative Education: Issues for Teachers. New York and Toronto: Teachers College Press & Canadian Scholars Press. Pp. 1-23. [Co-equal authorship].
  24. Mundy, K. (2008). “Education for All, Africa, and the Comparative Sociology of Schooling.” Chapter 3, in K. Mundy, K. Bickmore R. Hayhoe, M. Madden & K. Madjidi (Eds.), Comparative Education: Issues for Teachers. New York and Toronto:  Teachers College Press & Canadian Scholars Press. Pp. 49-76.
  25. Mundy, K. & Farrell, J. (2008). “International Educational Indicators and Assessments: Issues for Teachers.” Chapter 10, in K. Mundy, K. Bickmore R. Hayhoe, M. Madden & K. Madjidi (Eds.), Comparative Education:  Issues for Teachers. New York and Toronto:  Teachers College Press & Canadian Scholars Press. Pp. 189-214.[Lead author].
  26. Mundy, K. (2007). “Education for All: Paradoxes and Prospects of a Global Promise.” In D. P. Baker and A. W. Wiseman (Eds.),Education for All: Global Promises, National Challenges(Volume 8, International Perspectives on Education and Society Series).  Oxford UK:  Pp. 1-31.
  27. Mundy, K. (2007). “EL MULTILATERALISMO ESDUCATIVO Y EL (DES)ORDEN MUNDIAL”. In X. Bonal, A. Tarabini & A.Verger (Eds.), Globalización y Educación: Textos Fundamentales.Buenos Aires: Ed. Miño y Dávila. Pp.1-81.
  28. Mundy, K. (2007). “Educational Multilateralism: Origins and Indications for Global Governance.”In Martens, A. Rusconi & K. Leuze (Eds.), New Arenas of Education Governance – The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Education Policymaking.Houndmills, Basingstoke:  Palgrave Macmillan.Pp.19-39.
  29. Mundy, K.(2006). “Education for all and the New Development Compact.” In J. Zajda, S. Majhonivich, V. Rust and E. Martin Sabina, (eds.), Education and Social Justice. The Netherlands:  Pp.1-215.
  30. REPRINT Mundy, K.  (2006). “Educational Multilateralism and World Dis-Order.” In H. Lauder, P. Brown, J. A. Dillabough & A. H. Halsey, Education Globalization and Social Change.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.448-478.
  31. REPRINT Mundy, K & Murphy, L. (2006). “Transnational Advocacy, Global Civil Society? Emerging Evidence from the Field of Education.”  In H. Lauder, P. Brown, J. A. Dillabough & A. H. Halsey, Education, Globalization and Social Change.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.85-126. [Lead author with student].
  32. Mundy, K. (2005). “The Evolution of Educational Multilateralism from 1945-2005.”In E. Fuchs (Ed.),Bildung international: Zu Rezeptions- und Transferprozessen in historischer Perspektive (pp. 181-200). Wuerzburg, Deutschland: Ergon Verlag. Pp.1-53.
  33. Mundy, K. (2005). “Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds.” In K. Leithwood, A. Datnow & N. Bascia (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Educational Policy.  London: Kluwer Publishers. Pp. 3-17
  34. Mundy, K, Bickmore, K., Giese, C., Myers, J., & Evans, M. (2004). “The Historical and Policy Context for Citizenship Education in Ontario.”  In O. Glagolevea & O. Zaslaviskaia (Eds.), Civic Education and Democracy in Russia. pp 315-332. [Lead author].
  35. Mundy, K. & Kendall, N. (2002). “International Development Projects”. Encyclopaedia of Education. Farmington Hill, MI: [Lead author with student].
  36. Mundy, K. & Moulton, J. (2002). “Introduction:Implementation Research and Educational Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.”  In J. Moulton, K. Mundy, M. Welmond & J. Williams, Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm Lost?Westport:  Greenwood Press. Pp.1-13.[Lead author].
  37. Mundy, K. (2002). “Malawi: Externally Driven Reforms and Their Adoption during Democratic Transition.” In J. Moulton, K. Mundy, M. Welmond & J. Williams, Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Paradigm Lost?Westport: Greenwood Press. Pp.13-53.
  38. Mundy, K. & Moulton, J. (2002). “Conclusion: Paradigm Lost? Synthesis and Discussion.” In J. Moulton, K. Mundy, M. Welmond & J. Williams, Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm Lost?Westport:  Greenwood Press. Pp.179-213. [Lead author].
  39. Mundy, K. & Murphy, L. (2000). “Beyond the Nation State: Educational Contention in Global Civil Society.” In H. D. Meyer & B. Boyd (Eds.), Education between State, Markets and Civil Society – Comparative Perspectives. London: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, pp 223-244. [Lead author with student].
  40. Mundy, K. (1998).“Educational Multilateralism at a Crossroads.” In King & L. Buchert (Eds.), Changing International Aid to Education: Global Patterns and National Contexts. Paris:  UNESCO and Norrag, p. 93-118.
  41. Mundy, K. (1996). “Canadian Aid and Education in Southern Africa.” P.T.M. Marope and S.G. Weeks (Eds.), Education and National Development in Southern Africa (pp. 20-39). Botswana:  Botswana Educational Research Association for Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society.