Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This article focuses on the changing nature of education governance in Europe. It looks at the shifting discourses and policy practices in the ways in which the European Commission has aligned itself to education and discusses the reasons for what is presented as a substantial shift in the tools and resources for governing the European education space. The article suggests that, alongside other significant developments, the knowledge economy has had two significant effects on education governance in Europe: first, a rapid change of policy discourse and practice, moving from constructing a European ‘culture’ to a Europe of learning governed by numbers; and second, education is slowly moving from the margins of European governance to the very centre of its policy making. The article discusses the new technologies of governance that have powered this shift and makes a case for the significance of recognising and studying them further.
Author: Sotiria Grek
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
Award: G2032034141
OpenAlex ID: W2147248056