Shaping of European Education Interdisciplinary approaches

The range, speed and scale of Europeanizing effects in education, and their complexity, has produced a relatively new field of study, and this book examines the rise of international and transnational policy and flows of data and people around Europe. It uses scholarship and research drawn from sociology, politics and education in the study of Europeanizing processes or situations in education. Each chapter: creates a space for policy research on European education, bringing together widely dispersed studies in education studies, political science, sociology and European integration studies reflects scholarship, drawn from different centres and disciplines across Europe, developing theoretical insights into develops empirical studies about European institutions, networks and processes; the interplay between policy-makers, stakeholders, experts, and researchers; and between the European and the national brings together researchers from a large set of countries and mixes experienced and young researchers.
As an introduction to the ways in which European education is being constructed, the book includes new subjects of study and a new relationship between disciplinary subjects and their methods of study. These include the role of think tanks and consultancies, international organizations, researcher mobilities, standards, indicators of higher education, and cultural metaphor.

1. Introduction Martin Lawn and Romuald Normand 2. Education Governance and Transnational Experts: Europe, OECD and the New Politics of Policy Mobilisation Sotiria Grek 3. The "French Pinnacle" of PISA. A Boundary Object between Translations and IrreversibilityRomuald Normand 4. Soft Governance through PISA Benchmarking – German Reforms in Secondary Education Tonia Bieber, Dennis Niemann and Kerstin Martens 5. Power as Translation in the Global Governance of Education Nelli Piattoeva 6. Worlds of Educational Standards: Complex Interplays between Sociologies of Education Paolo Landri 7. The Understories of European Education: The Contemporary Life of Experts and Professionals Martin Lawn 8. "Speaking Truth to Power"? On the Challenges of Collaborative Research through European Funding Eric Mangez and Pieter Vanden Broeck 9. The (C)SI effect – School Inspection as Crime Scene Investigation Joakim Lindgren and John Clarke 10. What Kind of Public Sphere Shapes the European Educational Research Space? Marybel Suarez 11. Higher Education Governance Reforms in Europe: Concepts, Measurement and Empirical Findings Michael Dobbins and Christoph Knill 12. Transnational Academic Mobility from the Perspective of Gender Inequality – Researcher Flows and Knowledge Construction in Europe Regula Julia Leemann and Stefan Boes

Martin Lawn is an Honorary Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. Romuald Normand is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France.