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Expertise, Networks and Indicators: The Construction of the European Strategy in Education
Authors: Romuald Normand
This paper describes the networks of experts involved in the fabrication of indicators and benchmarks supporting the Open Method of Coordination led by the European Commission. In studying international expertise ,the article explores the policy borrowing process and the transfer of knowledge between several agents and institutions at global level.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 25, 2011
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International Organisations and the Shared Construction of Policy ‘Problems’: Problematisation and Change in Education Governance in Europe
Authors: Grek Sotiria
Thispaper develops the idea that IOs, and particularly the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have had significant policy influence within the context of education policy development in the European education space. The article focuses on an examination of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the more recent Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in order to discuss processes of problematisation and normalisation of the notions of ‘skills’ and ‘competencies’ by the two major European IOs, the OECD and the European Commission. The article examines the ways both concepts have turned into a policy problem in need of soft governance through new data, standards and policy solutions.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 25, 2011