Session Information
23 SES 05 A, Fabricating Quality in Europe: Data and Education Governance (Part 1)
Symposium, to be continued in 23 SES 06 A
Time:
2009-09-29
08:30-10:00
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Ken Jones
Discussant:
Jane Kenway
Contribution
This introductory paper will frame the symposium by challenging the assumption that education within the European Union is largely a question of subsidiarity and thus the responsibility of national governments. The paper suggests that this has changed to reflect education’s key contribution to the new Knowledge Economy goals of Europe. As a consequence, it can be argued that education has shifted from its institutionalised and ordered sequences to become a new fluid, flexible and cross national phenomenon - that of learning (Lawn and Grek 2006). At the same time, that fluid and flexible phenomenon is subjected to quality assurance and evaluation processes that involve constant monitoring, measurement and comparison that may be making a new European policy space in education, in response to global pressures (Lawn and Grek 2009)
Method
Methodology: The paper draws on the project methodology and reports on the analysis of interviews with key policy informants at European and national levels, along with critical discourse analysis of policy texts.
Expected Outcomes
Investigating the rise of educational data, with all its forms, processes, significant actors, national and international sites of production and policy analysts, means rendering visible the new ways of governing education. The European Educational Space is being constructed at the interface between states and EU offices (Grek et al 2009), between offices and sub-contractors, academics and politicians, experts and officials, consultants and researchers. The Space we researched is bordered, cross-bordered and without borders, a space in which data flows unevenly forming a new European education landscape. Who governs education is still the question but the space in which to answer it has grown.
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