European EducationPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1694418
Cristina Alarcón
{"title":"An Improbable Identification? The Netherlands as a “Reference Society” within the Chilean Educational Policy-Making Debate (2014–2015)","authors":"Cristina Alarcón","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1694418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1694418","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigated a policy-making debate in Chile, by examining the construction of the Netherlands as a new “reference society”. It focused on a reform agenda that aimed at a transformation of the neo-liberal school governance model. Based on the analysis of government documents, parliamentary debates, and media materials, the paper concludes that in addition to the consideration of PISA results the identification with the Netherlands served fundamentally as a political compromise solution.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"117 1","pages":"48 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84890089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1691014
Stavros Moutsios
{"title":"The European Comparative Gaze","authors":"Stavros Moutsios","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1691014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1691014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses the comparative perspective of the European Modernity towards other civilizations, and the creation of comparative studies, and, for that matter, of comparative education. The paper argues that much of the debate on Eurocentrism neglects the fact that the European tradition includes also an inextricable self-reflective dimension, which has allowed for the emergence of impartial approaches to the study of overseas societies, and has established critique as a sine qua non intellectual stance. Through illustrations from the cultural history of Europe, the paper points to a rupture in the representational and cognitive closure, that characterized medieval Europe, regarding other cultures, which led to the awareness that, while human beings share the same features societies are instituted differently. However, from the 19th century on, foreign societies were to be gauged primarily through the lenses of “progress” and “development”, which became the main legitimating ideas of capitalist expansion. Nevertheless, as the paper concludes, self-reflectiveness is embedded in the European epistemological tradition – a tradition that needs to be advanced rather than ignored.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"152 6 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77953904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1682461
Theodore G. Zervas, A. Papadopoulos
{"title":"Creating Greeks and Greek-Americans: Geographic and Educational Identity Constructions at the Socrates and Koraes Greek-American Schools","authors":"Theodore G. Zervas, A. Papadopoulos","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1682461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1682461","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reveals the complex intersectionalities of immigrant identity construction, nationalisms (and national exceptionalisms), and how Greek culture/language schools in the United States significantly influenced and created a Greek and Greek-American Identity. Drawing on the Chicago experience and the Socrates and Koraes Greek-American Schools, this paper interrogates the collaborative relationship between the Greek state, the Greek community in the United States and Greek culture/language schools. Part I of this paper discusses the spatial/scalar character of the construction of the Greek culture/language school phenomenon, and the role of the Greek state played in fixing the definition of “Greekness” by establishing a normative historiography and national identity for the homeland. Also considered in this part is the complex relationship of immigrant identity construction, nationalisms and the construction of Greek national identity using geography and history. Part II surveys the empirical dimension of the phenomenon of Greek culture/language education in the United States. Early Greek immigrant efforts sought to preserve a Greek cultural identity through the Greek culture/language schools. Over time questions arose on what type of Greek identity would be (or could be) preserved in the United States.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"126 1","pages":"16 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88110371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-09-17DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1643248
Eef Scheerlinck, Klaas De Brucker, Pamela Kerkhove
{"title":"The Pan-European Bologna Reform: An Analysis Based on Employer Perceptions in a Belgian Context","authors":"Eef Scheerlinck, Klaas De Brucker, Pamela Kerkhove","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1643248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1643248","url":null,"abstract":"The Bologna reform aimed at creating a more transparent system of comparable degrees. Taking a demand-side viewpoint, we discuss two types of employer perception, namely, whether Belgian employers perceive Bologna as successful in facilitating the comparison of degrees and whether they are satisfied with the knowledge and skills of those of their employees who have acquired the new degrees. The main conclusions are that Belgian employers do not perceive the comparability of degrees as having become more easy, employability of “academic” (research-grounded) bachelors remains problematic, and employers caution against the loss of practical skills. Finally, we elaborate three policy recommendations.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"29 1","pages":"309 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83440724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1642768
Nina Raud, Olga Orehhova, Oleksandra Golovko, Svitlana Zapolskykh
{"title":"Toward Multilingual Tertiary Education in Ukraine: The Case of Zaporizhzhia National University","authors":"Nina Raud, Olga Orehhova, Oleksandra Golovko, Svitlana Zapolskykh","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1642768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1642768","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a research into Ukrainian state and university language policies, and a Ukrainian university community’s potential to become multilingual in terms of its foreign language proficiency and attitudes toward multilingual tertiary education. The results allow assuming that Ukrainian state acts and university regulations allow for multilingual tertiary education. Ukrainian universities can develop their own multilingual models, as the case study of one top Ukrainian university (Zaporizhzhia National University) suggests.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"67 1","pages":"291 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89064933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-07-19DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1637266
R. Kasa, M. Elken, A. Paalzow, D. Pauna
{"title":"Conditioned Entrepreneurialism: Strategic Responses of Universities in Latvia and Norway","authors":"R. Kasa, M. Elken, A. Paalzow, D. Pauna","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1637266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1637266","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on comparative data from five universities in Latvia and Norway, this article examines universities’ strategic responses to a policy environment that calls for more entrepreneurial approaches in organizing research activity in higher education. This study concludes that strategic responses of universities to pressures for entrepreneurialism vary not only depending on the national policy context but also depending on the institution’s profile. While universities in this study rarely defy some of the key elements of entrepreneurialism as proposed in the policy domains, their strategic responses are conditioned by local institutional realities.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"1983 1","pages":"253 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82212440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-06-10DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1619463
Justina Naujokaitienė, D. Passey
{"title":"Influences on Developing Collaborative Learning Practices in Schools: Three Cases in Three Different Countries","authors":"Justina Naujokaitienė, D. Passey","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1619463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1619463","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores influences on the development of collaborative learning practices in schools. Evidence from three cases in three countries is detailed and analyzed, using a theoretical framework concerned with school curricula: aims and intended learning outcomes; syllabus, learning and teaching methods; and assessment. In each of the three cases (England, Germany, and Lithuania), a review of national statutory requirements and nonstatutory guidelines is supported by evidence from teacher practice (in-depth case studies), which are then viewed through a comparative case-study method approach. The article highlights influences on practice, and draws conclusions about developing effective future policy and practices.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"59 1","pages":"212 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77909513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-06-07DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1619464
S. Norozi
{"title":"How Do Norwegian Reception Schools Cater to the Academic and Integrational Needs of Newly Arrived Minority Language Pupils: Cases From Two Municipalities","authors":"S. Norozi","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1619464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1619464","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the perceptions and experiences of the professionals about integrational and academic programs for newly arrived minority language pupils in elementary reception classes in two Norwegian municipalities: Oslo and Trondheim. The data were collected through interviews, field conversations, and available relevant documents. The head teachers, subject coordinators, and reception teachers were interviewed. Framed by activity theory, the article offers a combinative analysis of all aspects of the reception classes. The findings reveal the complex layers of challenges built into the process of integrational and academic programs for newly arrived migrant pupils in the reception classes.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"231 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87600641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-06-07DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1619465
S. Wollscheid, B. Stensaker, Markus M. Bugge
{"title":"Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in the Field of Education: The Dilemmas Related to Organizational Design","authors":"S. Wollscheid, B. Stensaker, Markus M. Bugge","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1619465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1619465","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-informed policy and practice has been a trend as part of an effort to increase the use of research to improve education at all levels. In many countries, knowledge-brokering initiatives were established to stimulate links between research, policy, and practice. Drawing on a mapping of initiatives in seven countries, this article describes different organizational designs, and discusses potential dilemmas these might imply for the realization of these organizations’ roles. Given different interests involved, the article shows that organizational design is crucial for enhancing legitimacy. Findings indicate a trend toward locating the knowledge-brokering function in a combined policy–science logic.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"40 1","pages":"270 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82160490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EducationPub Date : 2019-05-30DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2019.1601020
C. Whitsel, B. Junisbai, A. Junisbai
{"title":"Polarization During Institutional Decline: Variation in Educational Attainment in Post-Soviet Central Asia in 1991–2006","authors":"C. Whitsel, B. Junisbai, A. Junisbai","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2019.1601020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2019.1601020","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the contours of inequality in the context of institutional decline and polarization in educational attainment. Using household survey data collected in 2005–2006 by UNICEF, we conduct synthetic cohort analyses estimating the likelihood of transitioning to secondary and higher education for men and women; urban and rural residents; poor and wealthy; and ethnic majority and minority citizens. Overall, gender and ethnic differences appear to contribute most to the polarization, although poverty and rural residence play a role in some contexts.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"186 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73280723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}