Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1873927908 ISBN 13: 9781873927908

Publisher: Symposium Books, 2009

Synopsis

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 ONE: 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 (EES). Contributors emphasise the role of the European Commission, and especially the Lisbon agenda, in this process, and consider 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 to 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 the impact of pressures from globalisation and Europeanisation, at 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
PART ONE. Governance and the Knowledge Economy
ROGER DALE. Contexts, Constraints and Resources in the Development of European Education Space and European Education Policy
STEPHEN R. STOER & ANTONIO M. MAGALHAES. Education, Knowledge and the Network Society
SUSAN ROBERTSON. Europe, Competitiveness and Higher Education: an evolving project
PALLE RASMUSSEN. Lifelong Learning as Social Need and as Policy Discourse
SUSAN ROBERTSON. Unravelling the Politics of Public Private Partnerships in Education in Europe
ROGER DALE. Studying Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education: Lisbon, the Open Method of Coordination and beyond
PART TWO. Citizenship, Identity and Language
XAVIER BONAL & XAVIER RAMBLA. 'In the Name of Globalisation': southern and northern paradigms of educational development
PALLE RASMUSSEN, KATHLEEN LYNCH, JACKY BRINE, PEPKA BOYADJIEVA, MICHAEL A. PETERS & HEINZ SUNKER. Education, Equality and the European Social Model
JANET ENEVER. Languages, Education and Europeanisation
M'HAMMED SABOUR. Globalisation and Europeanisation: unicentricity and polycentricity and the role of intellectuals
KIRK SULLIVAN & JANET ENEVER. What is Language Europe?
ANTONIO M. MAGALHAES & STEPHEN R. STOER. Performance, Citizenship and the Knowledge Society: a new mandate for European Education Policy

About this edition

• Publisher: Symposium Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1873927908
• ISBN 13: 9781873927908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Roger Dale, Susan Robertson