ABSTRACT
Since tools such as international benchmarking, stocktaking and rankings have become more prominent in recent years, scholars are increasingly interested in studying policy instruments based on multilateral surveillance of national policies (Zeitlin 2005; Schäfer 2006a, 2006b; Kohler-Koch and Rittberger 2006; Martens 2007). This chapter will focus on one of the more elaborate multilateral surveillance tools applied in the EU context – the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – and will examine its application in the field of education, a domain only marginally exposed to Europeanization in the last decades. As the chapter shows, the OMC created a new level for education governance, constituting an important internationalization process in this field.
