1st Edition
A European Politics of Education Perspectives from sociology, policy studies and politics
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 and politics of supranational Europe are making a European educational space
- Contains a response to the emergence of new epistemic governance and instruments at European level
- Contains contributions from the EU and the UK which give a comprehensive selection of perspectives and analysis of the field as it concerns Europe
The complexity of the contemporary European education policy space is addressed here with new lines of inquiry as well as a reflexive outlook, on standardization, policy-making and actor engagement. Students and researchers of European policy studies, education policy analysts and theorists will all be particularly interested readers.
1 Introduction
Romuald Normand and Jean-Louis Derouet
2 Standards and Standardization in European politics of Education
Paolo Landri
3 Policy transfers in Europe: the European Union and beyond
Magdaléna Hadjiisky
4 The Praise of mutual Surveillance in Europe
Luís Miguel Carvalho and Estela Costa
5 Policy Learning and Expertise in European Education
Romuald Normand
6 Ranking and the Structuration of a transnational Field of Higher Education
Niilo Kauppi
7 Higher education: from « unclear technologies » to human resources management techniques
Jean-Émile Charlier and Sarah Croché
8 Universities, the risk industry and capitalism: a political economy critique
Susan L. Robertson and Chris Muellerleile
9 "Silencing the disbelievers": games of truth and power struggles around fact-based management
Isabelle Bruno
10 Compliance and contestation in the neoliberal university: reflecting on the identities of UK social scientists
Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz and Aniko Horvath
11 Losing the plot, plotting the lost: politics, Europe, and the rediscovery of lifelong learning
John Holford
12 How are European lifelong learning systems changing? An approach in terms of public policy regimes
Eric Verdier
Biography
Romuald Normand is Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg, Research Unit SAGE (Societies, Actors and Government in Europe), France.
Jean-Louis Derouet is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France.
