CHAPTER 1 INNOVATIVE ORTHODOXIES AND OLD BEDFELLOWS À RE(DRAWING) THE GEOMETRIES OF EDUCATION GOVERNANCE Tavis D. Jules ABSTRACT This chapter presents a very broad synopsis of the intensification of education governance. It opens by narrating the multifaceted nature of governance and in what way it has developed as the axiom for professed policy problems that national educational systems are experiencing. The chapter chronicles the amplification of education governance and it explicates the metamorphosis and myriad typographies that “govern- ance” has taken in responding to perceived endogenous and exogenous policy problems. It explains how managerialism and neo-corporate reforms sought to destabilize the activities of education governance and the results. In making this argument, it suggests that new public management policy prescriptions in education were part of the earliest form of disruptive innovation in education. It advances that educational managerialism, in hollowing out national educational systems, has gener- ated the perfect breeding ground for the rise of newer modus operandi The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Gated, Regulated and Governed Public Policy and Governance, Volume 26, 3À31 Copyright r 2017 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 2053-7697/doi:10.1108/S2053-769720160000026001 3 Downloaded by Dr Tavis Jules At 02:50 06 January 2017 (PT)