Network Sessions as ECER 2015

Network: 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education

23 SES 01 B, Assessment, Standardisation and Social Justice

Tuesday, 2015-09-08, 13:15-14:45, Room: 418.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Anne Larson

  1. High-stakes Assessment Systems as a Historical Barrier to Educational Change
  2. María Teresa Flórez Petour 

  3. “They want to show that they are topnotch”. Students’ enactment of policy in interaction.
  4. Marie Tanner  Héctor Pérez Prieto 

23 SES 02 A, Policy Reforms and Teacher Professionalism (Part 1)

Tuesday, 2015-09-08, 15:15-16:45, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Marie Brennan

  1. Understanding The Political Arena Of Out-Of-Field Teaching In Australia
  2. Linda Hobbs  Colleen Vale  Christopher Speldewinde  Zahra Parvanehnezhadshirazian 

  3. “To Where Pathways Lead” – Teacher education and the art of policy persuasion in Contemporary Europe; reflections from the Ireland context
  4. Anne McMorrough. BA. HDipEd. MEd  Conor Galvin 

23 SES 04 A, Policy Reforms and the Regulation of Teachers’ Work

Wednesday, 2015-09-09, 09:00-10:30, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Peter Kelly

  1. The marketisation of English School Leadership?
  2. Linda Hammersley-Fletcher 

  3. Taylorism Revisited? Scientific Management And The Taylorisation Of School Teaching In England
  4. Howard Stevenson  Pat Thomson 

  5. Child in nature/Nature in child
  6. Magdalena Sjostrand Öhrfelt 

23 SES 05 A JS, Democracy and Education in Performative Regimes

Wednesday, 2015-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Sharon Todd

  1. Co-option or Resistance in Neo-liberal Times? The Co-operative Schooling Movement in England
  2. Martin Mills  Hextall Ian  Mahony Pat 

  3. The End Of Democracy And The Modes Of Resistance
  4. Carlos Reis  Dores Formosinho  García del Dujo Angel 

  5. Citizens Governing Schools. Customers, Partners, Right-holders
  6. Sara Carlbaum 

23 SES 05 B, Globalisation, Europeanisation and Higher Education Reforms

Wednesday, 2015-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: 418.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Xavier Rambla

  1. Globalisation, Internationalization and the English Language in Greek Higher Education
  2. Areti Vogopoulou  Antigone Sarakinioti  Anna Tsatsaroni 

  3. Manoeuvring the European Quality Landscape: the significance of ENQA policy in governing Swedish higher education
  4. Christina Segerholm  Agneta Hult 

23 SES 05 D, Policies and Practices of Parental School Choice (Part 1)

Wednesday, 2015-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: VIII. Előadó [C], Chair: Annette Rasmussen

  1. Performance Differences Between Religious And Nonreligious Schools
  2. Geert Driessen  Orhan Agirdag  Michael S. Merry 

  3. Family background and school choice in cities of Russia and Estonia: Selective agenda of the past and present
  4. Triin Lauri  Kaire Põder  Daniel Alexandrov 

23 SES 06 D, Inclusive Education and Parental School Choice

Wednesday, 2015-09-09, 15:30-17:00, Room: VIII. Előadó [C], Chair: Annette Rasmussen

  1. Dynamics in Family School Choice Strategies in Finnish Comprehensive Schooling
  2. Janne Varjo  Mira Kalalahti  Hannu Simola 

  3. Policies In The Pursuit Of ‘Elite And Excellence’: Delineating The Educational ‘Imaginary’ Of Parents And Teachers
  4. Despina Tsakiris  Iokasti Theohari  Dimitra Pavlina Nikita 

  5. Social Justice In Portuguese Schools – Influences And Political Perspectives
  6. Marta Sampaio  Carlinda Leite 

23 SES 08 A, New Forms of Governance in School Education (Part 1)

Thursday, 2015-09-10, 09:00-10:30, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Andrew Skourdoumbis

  1. Evidence On The Use Of External Evaluations As Devices For Regulation, Control And Persuasion
  2. Soledad Rappoport  María Fernández-Agüero  Héctor Monarca  Miguel Ávila 

  3. The work of academy chains in England: neoliberal responsibilisation as a new modality of state power
  4. Amanda Keddie 

23 SES 09 B, The Impact of PISA on National Education Policies

Thursday, 2015-09-10, 11:00-12:30, Room: 418.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Ulrike Hohmann

  1. Comparing the Policy Response to PISA in England and Germany
  2. Peter Kelly 

  3. PISA in public debate: the case of Portugal
  4. Estela Costa  Sofia Viseu  Luis Miguel Carvalho  Natércio Afonso 

  5. Academic Reduction Reforms and Trans-national Educational Policy Cycles
  6. Gerald LeTendre  Jinai Sun 

23 SES 09.5, Network Meeting

Thursday, 2015-09-10, 12:45-13:45, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Anna Tsatsaroni

  1. Network Meeting
  2. Anna Tsatsaroni 

23 SES 10 D, Diversity as a System of Exclusion: Historical Notes on Contemporary Thought (Part 1)

Thursday, 2015-09-10, 15:30-17:00, Room: VIII. Előadó [C], Chair: Thomas Popkewitz

  1. Diversity as a System of Exclusion: Historical Notes on Contemporary Thought (PART I)
  2. Catarina Silva Martins  Sverker Lindblad  Rita Foss Lindblad  Daniel Tröhler  Lynn Fendler  Thomas S. Popkewitz  Romuald Normand 

  3. A World Wide Panopticon: on Large Scale International Assessments and Progress in Education
  4. Sverker Lindblad  Rita Foss Lindblad 

  5. The Salvation of Enlightenment and the Eclipse of Natural Differences
  6. Daniel Tröhler 

  7. Configuring Difference for Social Justice: Representation and Non-Representation
  8. Lynn Fendler 

23 SES 12 A, Nordic Educational Programmes to Assure Transition and Prevent Dropout

Friday, 2015-09-11, 09:00-10:30, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Palle Rasmussen

  1. Nordic Educational Programmes To Assure Transition And Prevent Dropout
  2. Annette Rasmussen  Stein Erik Ohna  Mara Westling Allodi  Palle Rasmussen  Ann Hodgson  Verner Larsen  Anne Nevøy  Lars Bang Jensen 

  3. Transitions Within Vocational Education And Training
  4. Stein Erik Ohna  Anne Nevøy 

  5. The Swedish Model Of Upper Secondary Education: An Analysis Of Recent Reforms And Trends Of School Attendance And Dropout
  6. Mara Westling Allodi 

  7. Educational Transition By Developing ‘Readiness’ - In The Case Of Danish Production Schools
  8. Annette Rasmussen  Verner Larsen  Lars Bang Jensen 

23 SES 13 A, Education Policy Analysis: Methodological Issues

Friday, 2015-09-11, 11:00-12:30, Room: 417.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Anna Tsatsaroni

  1. Policy Formation In Times Of Transition
  2. Catherine Simon 

  3. Asymmetry in Education Policy Interviews: Constructing Us, Them and You
  4. Jaakko Kauko  Sonja Kosunen 

  5. The Effect of Austerity on Active Citizenship: a France-Netherlands Comparison
  6. Wiel Veugelers  Antoine Bevort 

23 SES 13 C, Tackling Early School Leaving in Europe: an Evaluation of School-based Practices (Part 1)

Friday, 2015-09-11, 11:00-12:30, Room: 425.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Noel Clycq

  1. Symposium 1: Tackling Early School Leaving in Europe: an evaluation of school-based practices
  2. Noel Clycq  Helena C Araújo  Eunice Macedo  Louise Ryan  Magdolna Lorinc  Paulina Marchlik  Hanna Tomaszewska-Pękała  Paolo Landri  Alexandra Doroftei  Christina Rocha 

  3. Symposium 1: Paper 3/3 'Challenges and obstacles for school-based measures to help students at risk'
  4. Paulina Marchlik  Hanna Tomaszewska-Pękała 

  5. Symposium 1: Paper 2/3 'Tackling ESL in the UK: case study from a London school'
  6. Louise Ryan  Magdolna Lorinc 

  7. Symposium 1: Paper 1/3 'Crossing Glances and Practices on Early School Leaving in Portuguese Upper Secondary Schools'
  8. Helena C Araújo  Eunice Macedo  Alexadra O. Doroftei  Christina Rocha 

23 SES 14 C, Tackling Early School Leaving in Europe: an Evaluation of School-based Practices (Part 2)

Friday, 2015-09-11, 15:30-17:00, Room: 425.Oktatóterem [C], Chair: Noel Clycq

  1. Symposium 2: Tackling Early School Leaving in Europe: an evaluation of school-based practices
  2. Noel Clycq  Talitha Stam  Sílvia Carrasco  Laia Narciso  Paolo Landri  Bálint Ábel Bereményi  Marta Bertran  Marjolein Braspenningx 

  3. Symposium 2: Paper 1/3 'The Aspirations of Native Dutch Pupils At-risk of Early School Leaving'
  4. Talitha Stam 

  5. Symposium 2: Paper 2/3 'Perceptions and practices around ESL in schools. Reflections from a qualitative approach in Catalonia.'
  6. Sílvia Carrasco  Laia Narciso  Bálint Ábel Bereményi  Marta Bertran 

  7. Symposium 2: Paper 3/3 'Studying specific school based measures tackling early school leaving. A case study in Flanders/Belgium.'
  8. Marjolein Braspenningx  Noel Clycq  Noel Clycq 

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