Políticas Educativas Europeias

This book grew out of the experience of a European Union Thematic Network of the same title, and focuses on aspects of the complex and varying relationships between globalisation, Europeanisation and Education.

The volume is divided into two parts:

PART 1: Governance and the Knowledge Economy, focuses on how the discourses of a Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning, and an emerging functional and scalar division of the labour of educational governance became central to the development of a European Education Space. Contributors emphasise the role of the European Commission, and especially the Lisbon agenda, in this process, and considers the role of the Open Method of Coordination and the Bologna Process in the construction of the EES. A key theme linking Europeanisation to globalisation is the prominence of the discourse of competitiveness, and the role allocated to education in enhancing Europe’s ability to compete with the United States and Japan.

PART TWO: Citizenship, Identity and Language, looks at the emergence of a new social model for Europe, this time from the point of view of how it relates the development of individual capacities and citizenship, and the role of intellectuals in this process. A second major theme is the place, role and choice of languages and at the impact of pressures from globalisation and Europeanisation, and national and sub-national levels, on language choice and teaching, taking into account both ‘World Englishes’ and Language Europe. Finally, globalisation becomes the central issue in an analysis of its different relationships with ‘northern’ (of which European education policy is taken as the example) and ‘southern’ paradigms of educational development.

CONTENTS

Roger Dale. Introduction

PART ONE. Governance and the Knowledge Economy

ROGER DALE Contexts, Constraints and Resources in the Development of European Education Space and European Education Policy, 23-43

STEPHEN R. STOER & ANTÓNIO M. MAGALHÃES Education, Knowledge and the Network Society, 45-63

SUSAN ROBERTSON Europe, Competitiveness and Higher Education: an evolving project, 65-83

PALLE RASMUSSEN Lifelong Learning as Social Need and as Policy Discourse, 85-100

SUSAN ROBERTSON Unravelling the Politics of Public Private Partnerships in Education in Europe, 101-119

ROGER DALE Studying Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education: Lisbon, the Open Method of Coordination and beyond, 121-140

PART TWO. Citizenship, Identity and Language

XAVIER BONAL & XAVIER RAMBLA ‘In the Name of Globalisation’: southern and northern paradigms of educational development, 143-157

PALLE RASMUSSEN, KATHLEEN LYNCH, JACKY BRINE, PEPKA BOYADJIEVA, MICHAEL A. PETERS & HEINZ SÜNKER Education, Equality and the European Social Model, 159-177

JANET ENEVER Languages, Education and Europeanisation, 179-192

M'HAMMED SABOUR Globalisation and Europeanisation: unicentricity and polycentricity and the role of intellectuals, 193-213

KIRK SULLIVAN & JANET ENEVER What is Language Europe?, 215-231

ANTÓNIO M. MAGALHÃES & STEPHEN R. STOER Performance, Citizenship and the Knowledge Society: a new mandate for European Education Policy, 233-260

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