The range, speed and scale of Europeanizing effects in education, and their complexity, has produced a relatively new field of study. Using scholarship and research drawn from sociology, politics and education, this book examines the rise of international and transnational policy and the flow of data and people around Europe to study Europeanizing processes and situations in education. Each chapter creates a space for policy research on European education, involving a range of disciplines to develop empirical studies about European institutions, networks and processes; the interplay between...
The range, speed and scale of Europeanizing effects in education, and their complexity, has produced a relatively new field of study. Using scholarshi...
In recent decades, governing practices in education have become highly contradictory: deregulation and decentralisation are accompanied by re-regulation and increased centralisation, contributing to considerable governing tensions in and across different national systems and within the emergent European education policy space. On the one hand there is the persistence of performance monitoring through target-setting, indicators and benchmarks, and on the other, the promotion of self-evaluation and 'light touch' regulation that express a 'softer' governance turn, and promote self-regulation as...
In recent decades, governing practices in education have become highly contradictory: deregulation and decentralisation are accompanied by re-regulati...
A European Politics of "Education" proposes a sociology of education establishing connections between empirical data coming from European-scale comparative surveys, normative assumptions structuring actors representations and interpretative judgements, and a specific focus on Lifelong Learning policy areas. It invites readers to think about the place of standards, expertise and calculations in the European space from a common perspective, supported by a tradition of critical sociology and European political studies.
The book:
Addresses an important agenda: how the policies...
A European Politics of "Education" proposes a sociology of education establishing connections between empirical data coming from European-scale com...
