1st Edition

Fabricating Quality in Education Data and Governance in Europe

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

How is European Education Governed? Data is now the lifeblood of education governance. At the international level, organisations like the OECD steer education systems through their programmes of assessment and the European Commission’s project of creating the most successful knowledge economy in the world is driven by data collection, analysis and comparison. At the national level,... Read more

Introduction Jenny Ozga, Peter Dahler-Larsen, Christina Segerholm and Hannu Simola  Part I: Dimensions of Europeanisation  1. Changing Spatial and Social Relations in Education in Europe Martin Lawn, Risto Rinne and Sotiria Grek  2: Fabricating Europe: From Culture to Numbers Sotiria Grek and Risto Rinne  3. Europe Through Experts and Technologies Martin Lawn and Christina Segerholm  4. National Policy Brokering and the Construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland Sotiria Grek, Martin Lawn, Bob Lingard, Jenny Ozga, Risto Rinne, Christina Segerholm and Hannu Simola  5. Europe and the Global: The Role of the OECD in Education Politics Risto Rinne and Jenny Ozga  6. Europe in Translation Jenny Ozga, Peter Dahler-Larsen and Christina Segerholm  Part II: Governing European Education  7. The Governance Turn Jenny Ozga, Christina Segerholm and Hannu Simola  8. Governing by Numbers: The Rise of Data in Education Hannu Simola, Jenny Ozga, Janne Varjo and Vibeke Normann Andersen  9. Central-Local Relations of Governance Jenny Ozga, Hannu Simola, Janne Varjo, Christina Segerholm, Susanna Hannus and Hannele Pikänen  10: Teachers' Perceptions of Quality Assurance and Evaluation John Gray, Linda Croxford, Carsten Strombaek Pedersen, Risto Rinne, Sari Silmäri-Salo, Hannu Simola and Mirka Mäkinen-Streng  Afterwod: Evaluation as a Field and as a Source of Reflection Peter Dahler-Larsen

Biography

Jenny Ozga is Professor of the Sociology of Education in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.

Peter Dahler-Larsen is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Christina Segerholm is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Hannu Simola is a Professor of the Sociology of Education in the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland.