ABSTRACT

The range, speed and scale of Europeanizing effects in education, and their complexity, has produced a relatively new field of study. Using scholarship and research drawn from sociology, politics and education, this book examines the rise of international and transnational policy and the flow of data and people around Europe to study Europeanizing processes and situations in education.

Each chapter creates a space for policy research on European education, involving a range of disciplines to develop empirical studies about European institutions, networks and processes; the interplay between policy-makers, stakeholders, experts, and researchers; and the space between the European and the national. The volume investigates the construction of European education, exploring the consideration of the role of think tanks and consultancies, international organizations, researcher mobilities, standards, indicators of higher education, and cultural metaphor.

Bringing together international contributors from a variety of disciplines across Europe, the book will be of key value to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education studies, politics and sociology.

chapter 2|18 pages

Education governance and transnational experts

Europe and its emerging relationship with the OECD

chapter 3|18 pages

The ‘French pinnacle’ of PISA

A boundary object between translations and irreversibility

chapter 4|16 pages

Soft governance through PISA benchmarking

German reforms in secondary education

chapter 6|16 pages

Worlds of educational standards

Complex interplays between sociologies of education

chapter 7|14 pages

The understories of European education

The contemporary life of experts and professionals

chapter 8|20 pages

Meeting expectations

On the challenges of collaborative research through European funding

chapter 9|20 pages

The (C)SI effect

School inspection as crime scene investigation

chapter 11|31 pages

Higher-education governance reforms in Europe

Concepts, measurement and empirical findings

chapter 12|20 pages

Transnational academic mobility from the perspective of gender inequality

Researcher flows and knowledge construction in Europe