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Investigador no CES e em Psicologia, a Escola da Psicologia, e psocilogia e Ciências das línguas.

Até recentemente era Secretário académico da Associação Britânica de Investigação Educacional e tem sido Professorial Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University; a Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and a Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Birmingham.

É o editor do European Educational Research Journal, official Journal of the European Educational Research Association.


Actuais interesses de investigação:

2006-2011: Knowledge and Policy: The role of Knowledge in the construction and regulation of Health and Education policy in Europe: convergences and specificities among nations and sectors (Know+Pol) (European Commission)

2006-2009: Fabricating Quality In European Education (FabQ) (ESF/ESRC EUROCORES)

2006-2008: A Scottish School of Educational Research 1925-1950, ESRC 17636 Co- Director with Professor Ian Deary, Psychology, University of Edinburgh

Publicações recentes:

1996
Modern Times? Work, Professionalism and Citizenship in Teaching, Falmer Press: London
1998
Silences and Images; social histories of classrooms, Peter Lang, New York [ed]

2002
Fabricating Europe- The Formation of an Education Space, Kluwer, London

2005
Materiality of Schooling - design, technology, objects, routines, Oxford: Symposium Books

Borderless Education: imagining a European education space in a time of brands of networks

The 'Usefulness' of Learning: the struggle over governance, meaning and the European education space

Imagining a Project: Networks, Discourses and Spaces Towards a New Archaeology of Urban Education, Paedagogica Historica XXV, 2, pp.381-393, 2000

Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: the Role of Transnational Policy Actors, European Educational Research Journal, 1(2), 2002

The Institute as Network: the Scottish Council for Research in Education as a local and international phenomenon in the 1930s, Paedagogica Historica Volume 40, Nos. 5 & 6, October 2004

Soft Governance and the Learning Spaces of Europe in Comparative European Politics, Rethinking European Spaces, 4(2), July 2006.

Contacto:

m.lawn@btinternet.com

pertinência para o projecto:

Investigação sobre políticas educativas europeias, construção do espaço europeu de investigação,