Session Information
23 SES 07 A, Knowledge and Policy in the Education Sector in Europe (Part 1)
Symposium, to be continued in Session 23 SES 07.5 A
Time:
2009-09-29
15:30-17:00
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Eric Mangez
Discussant:
Maarten Simons
Contribution
The Scotland Education Team is examining the Integrated Children’s Services (ICS) policy initiative. This initiative signals a radical re-conceptualisation of education, as part of universal services for children, that combine education with Health, Social Work, and the Police. The unified approach to policy making also reflects policy-makers’ concerns to extend the range of interventions that schooling can offer to include attitudinal and dispositional characteristics (for example self regulation in health, greater self-confidence and well-being). Knowledge is the main engine powering this radical shift as ICS bring together sector-specific, national, international and generic quality indicators. In this regard, ICS parallels the development of ‘intelligent government’
Conclusions: This public action is highly ‘networked’ and involves the reformation of bureau-professionals and their displacement by new knowledge-based, integrated professions. The integration of knowledge potentially increases the capacity of government to scrutinise and affect individual actions in many social settings, both private and public. Integrated knowledge raises questions in relation to using knowledge to create a better, ‘flourishing’ society (by whose definition?) and in relation to how one can do that without breaching the rights of privacy and data protection.
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