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23 SES 07 A, Navigating Shifting Geographies of Lifelong Learning Policies Part 1
Symposium to be continued in 23 SES 08 A
Contribution
This contribution seeks to shed light on the complex dynamic of European governance and domestic adaptation in the adult education policy domain. Domestic adaptation (rather than implementation) captures administrative adjustments by executive governments, other interest groups, and civil society to new institutional opportunities and structures that arise within Europe, and their normative consequences (Graziano & Vink 2008). The aim of this paper is to examine Education and Training 2020 and the Renewed European Agenda for adult learning, two distinguishable but interrelated policy mixes, or complex intergovernmental, multi-sectoral policies that involve multiple policy goals (Del Rio & Howlett 2013), which produce new institutional opportunities and structures in the adult education policy domain, although in different ways. Grounded in political sociology, our analysis addresses the nature of these policy mixes, their historical development, and the governance mechanisms and policy instruments through which they produce policy changes. Drawing on Lascoumes & Le Galès (2007), a governance mechanism is construed as a policy process aimed at reaching specific policy objective(s) that naturalizes the effects it produces; whereas a policy instruments represents the means used to reach policy outcome(s), in the sense of more or less stable frameworks that structure collective action. The data consist of a set of policy documents, reports, and other written information available through the official websites of the European Union and its institutions, including the European Commission’s registry of committees and groups. Moreover, as both policy mixes under consideration make use of official working groups and networks as a key policy instrument, we draw on social network analysis (Wasserman & Faust 1994) to study the interactions of local, national, European and global policy actors within and across these networks. An affiliation dataset (2-mode matrix) was created, starting from data on the participation of organizations (nodes) in some official working groups (events). This analysis makes it possible to identify the network of organizations, its level of integration (or density), and the level of centrality of any single node, including its capacity of acting in the network as broker. The social network analysis is carried out through Ucinet 6 software (Borgatti, Everett & Freeman 2002). Although the analysis is still in progress we expect it to contribute novel knowledge on the ways European policy is produced and coordinated, who contributes to these processes, and how this (may) produce changes in the adult education policy domain through domestic adaptation.
References
Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G., and Freeman, L.C. (2002). Ucinet 6 for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies. Del Rio, P., and Howlett, M. (2013). Beyond the “Tinbergen Rule” in Policy Design: Matching Tools and Goals in Policy Portfolios. Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Working Paper Series. Graziano, P., and Vink, M. P. (eds.) (2008). Europeanization: New research agendas. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Lascoumes, P., and Le Galès, P. (2007). Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments - From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation. Governance 20 (1), pp. 1-21. Wasserman, S., and Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
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Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
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Network 8. Research on Health Education
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Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
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