Dr Clara Fontdevila

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (School of Education)

email: Clara.FontdevilaPuig@glasgow.ac.uk

11 Eldon Street, St Andrews Building, Glasgow, G3 6NH

Biography

Dr Clara Fontdevila is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of education policy and politics, with a particular interest in the origins and contemporary restructuring of education markets, and the expansion and institutionalization of learning assessments.

She was previously a Margarita Salas Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where se also received her PhD in Sociology. She has been involved in a number of competitive projects, and has held research and consultancy contracts with a variety of institutions including UNESCO, Open Societies Foundation and Education International.

Research interests

Education policy
Political economy
Education markets
Large-scale learning assessments
Comparative education

Publications

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Number of items: 33.

2025

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Verger, Antoni (2025) They are born, age and survive. The construction of policy models by international organizations: the case of the OECD’s School autonomy with accountability. Comparative Education Review, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Zancajo, Adrián ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-8155 and Verger, Antoni (2024) Catholic schools in the marketplace: changing and enduring religious identities. Peabody Journal of Education, (doi: 10.1080/0161956X.2024.2381393) (Early Online Publication)

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Verger, Antoni and Zancajo, Adrian (2024) NEPC Review: Spark & Sustain How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale (McKinsey & Company, February 2024). Discussion Paper. NEPC, Boulder, Colorado, US.

Vanderhoven, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-1275, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Langthaler, Margarita, Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822, Hermann, Ralf, Marković, Jasminka, Sethwala, Sadaf, Maitra, Saikat and Calderón, Eduardo (2024) Realising the human development promise in dual VET. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2024.2309240) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2023) Still waiting for the (data) revolution. Examining supply-demand mismatches in the production of SDG4 metrics. International Journal of Educational Development, 103, 102928. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102928)

Vanderhoven, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-1275, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 (2023) Egresados de Dual como Orientadores de Carrera: Un Toolkit para Utilizar el Codiseño y la Voz de los Jóvenes para Mejorar la Orientación Profesional en la Educación Dual. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2023) The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics. International Journal of Educational Development, 96, 102684. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102684)

2022

Zancajo, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-8155, Verger, Antoni and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2022) La educación concertada en España. Reformas en clave de equidad desde una perspectiva internacional. Project Report. Fundació Bofill, Barcelona.

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 and Schneider, Sebastian (2022) An organized anarchy? Understanding the role of German cooperation in the construction and export of the dual training model. International Journal of Training and Development, 26(4), pp. 585-605. (doi: 10.1111/ijtd.12274)

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2022) El professorat als centres de màxima complexitat: com reclutar-lo i retenir-lo. In: Tarabini, Aina (ed.) Anuari 2022. Els reptes de l’educació a Catalunya. Fundació Bofill: Barcelona, pp. 311-346. ISBN 9788412482973

Vanderhoven, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-1275, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 and Maitra, Srabani ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-1294 (2022) Human Development Perspectives on the Transfer of Dual Training: Challenges and Implications. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Zancajo, Adrian, Verger, Antoni and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2022) La Concertada a Debat. Reformes Contra les Desigualtats Educatives des d’una Mirada Internacional i Comparada. Discussion Paper. Fundació Jaume Bofill, Barcelona.

Zancajo, Adrián ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-8155, Verger, Antoni and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2022) The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications. European Educational Research Journal, 21(1), pp. 44-70. (doi: 10.1177/14749041211023339)

2021

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Verger, Antoni and Avelar, Marina (2021) The business of policy: a review of the corporate sector’s emerging strategies in the promotion of education reform. Critical Studies in Education, 62(2), pp. 131-146. (doi: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1573749)

Zancajo, Adrian, Fontdevila Puig, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X, Verger, Antoni and Bonal, Xavier (2021) Regulating public-private partnerships, governing non-state schools: An equity perspective. Other. UNESCO, Paris.

2020

Verger, Antoni, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Parcerisa, Lluís (2020) El papel de la OCDE en la difusión internacional de políticas educativas: el caso de la autonomía escolar con rendición de cuentas = The role of the OECD in the international dissemination of educational policies: the case of accountable school autonomy. Journal of Supranational Policies of Education, 11, pp. 28-46. (doi: 10.15366/jospoe2020.11.002)

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Grek, Sotiria (2020) The construction of SDG4: reconciling democratic imperatives and technocratic expertise in the making of global education data? In: Grek, Sotiria, Maroy, Christian and Verger, Antoni (eds.) World Yearbook of Education 2021: Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education. Series: World yearbook of education. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 43-58. ISBN 9780367856502 (doi: 10.4324/9781003014164-4)

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2020) Learning assessments in the time of SDGs: new actors and evolving alliances in the construction of a global field. In: Wulff, Antonia (ed.) Grading Goal Four: Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education. Brill Sense: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 262-279. ISBN 9789004430358 (doi: 10.1163/9789004430365_012)

2019

Moschetti, Mauro Carlos, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Verger, Antoni (2019) Políticas, procesos y trayectorias de privatización educativa en Latinoamérica = Policies, processes, and paths of educational privatization in Latin America. Educação e Pesquisa, 45, e187870. (doi: 10.1590/s1678-463420194187870)

Verger, Antoni, Parcerisa, Lluís and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2019) The growth and spread of large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities: a political sociology of global education reforms. Educational Review, 71(1), pp. 5-30. (doi: 10.1080/00131911.2019.1522045)

2017

Verger, Antoni, Moschetti, Mauro and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2017) La privatización educativa en América Latina: una cartografía de políticas, tendencias y trayectorias. Internacional de la Educación.

Noschetti, Mauro Caros, Verger, Antoni and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2017) Manual para el estudio de la privatización educativa en América Latina. Manual. Education International, Brussels.

Bonal, Xavier and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2017) Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 24, pp. 73-77. (doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.002)

Tarabini, Aina, Curran, Marta and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2017) Institutional habitus in context: implementation, development and impacts in two compulsory secondary schools in Barcelona. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(8), pp. 1177-1189. (doi: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1251306)

2016

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Verger, Antoni (2016) The engagement of the corporate sector with the SDG4 agenda. NORRAG News, 54, pp. 33-34.

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2016) Una mirada al procés de definició de l’agenda educativa mundial 2030. Working Paper. Fundació Jaume Bofill, Barcelona.

Verger, Antoni, Zancajo, Adrián ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-8155 and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2016) La economía política de la privatización educativa: políticas, tendencias y trayectorias desde una perspectiva comparada = Political Economy of Educational Privatization: Policies, Trends and Paths from a Comparative Perspective. Revista Colombiana de Educación, 70, pp. 47-78. (doi: 10.17227/01203916.70rce47.78)

Verger, Antoni, Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Zancajo, Adrián ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-8155 (2016) The Privatization of Education: a Political Economy of Global Education Reform. Series: International perspectives on education reform. Teachers College Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780807757598

2015

Rambla, X. and Fontdevila, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2015) An opportunity to evaluate theories of change: the European strategy against early school leaving = Una oportunidad para evaluar las teorías del cambio: La estrategia europea contra el abandono escolar prematuro. Profesorado, 19(3), pp. 44-57.

Tarabini-Castellani, Aina, Curran, Marta and Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2015) El habitus institucional : una herramienta teórica y metodológica para el estudio de la cultura escolar = The Institutional habitus: a methodological and Theoretical Tool to Analyse The School Culture». Tempora, 18(2), pp. 37-58.

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2015) ¿Las políticas previenen el abandono escolar? Ambigüedad en Bruselas y omisión en Madrid. Cuadernos de Pedagogía, 454, pp. 44-46.

Fontdevila, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X and Verger, Antoni (2015) The World Bank’s Doublespeak on Teachers. An Analysis of Ten Years of Lending and Advice. Education International: Brussels. ISBN 9789295109001

Fontdevila Puig, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-558X (2015) La política de la Unión Europea y del Gobierno de España contra el abandono escolar prematuro. In: Tarabini, Aina (ed.) Políticas de lucha contra el abandono escolar en España. Síntesis col Pedagogía y Educación. ISBN 9788490770801

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