European Educational Research (Re)Constructed

This book examines contemporary educational research and its governance, addressing key questions via a multidisciplinary theoretical framework of comparative institutional analysis with original data and applying multiple methods. The authors explore and explain important changes in the governance of educational research and the contents of scholarship in education and related disciplines across Europe since the 1990s. This volume synthesizes findings from a multi-year comparative research project, including in-depth empirical case studies of three distinct educational research cultures evolving in Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The authors reconstruct and compare changing conceptualizations of educational research, embedded in increasingly internationalized contexts of research, and examine shifts in its governance, including patterns of funding, publication, and evaluation. They examine the producers of European educational research and the distinct role of the European Union in constructing a European Educational Research Area, in establishing cross-border networks, and in (re)shaping educational research agendas. Through innovative empirical analysis of programs of research on various levels and education researchers' collaborations in scientific networks, they provide insights into (supra)national dynamics in education-related scholarship. Theory-guided content analysis of research projects funded by leading national funding agencies and by the most highly developed supranational research funding instrument - the EU Framework Programme - enables the authors to embed findings on Germany, the United Kingdom, and Norway in a broader European perspective.

CONTENTS
Justin J.W. Powell, Mike Zapp, Marcelo Marques & Gert Biesta. Introduction: (Re)Constructing Institutional Change in European Educational Research
Mike Zapp, Justin J.W. Powell & Marcelo Marques. Theorizing Institutional Change in Educational Research (Governance)
Mike Zapp & Justin J.W. Powell. (Re)Shaping the Educational Research Field in Germany and the Impact of International Large-scale Assessments
Marcelo Marques. In the Name of Quality! Normative Pressures and Changing Legitimacy of Educational Research through Evaluation in the UK
Jo B. Helgetun, Justin J.W. Powell & Mike Zapp. Governing Educational Research in Norway: coercion, cooperation or consensus?
Marcelo Marques. Organizational Networks in Educational Research in Europe: interconnections and stratification in the EU Framework Programme (1994-2013)
Mike Zapp, Marcelo Marques & Justin J.W. Powell. Comparing Institutional Change in Educational Research Governance in Germany, the UK, Norway and the EU
Marcelo Marques, Mike Zapp, Justin J.W. Powell & Gert Biesta. Continuity and Change in Educational Research: comparing educational research contents in Germany, the UK, Norway and the EU, 1994-2015
Mike Zapp, Marcelo Marques & Justin J.W. Powell. On the Future of Educational Research (Governance)