Evaluating European Education Policy-Making Privatization, Networks and the European Commission

by Souto-Otero, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781137287977
• ISBN10: 1137287977
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of European educational policy and policy-sociology, this book also introduces the 'absent voices' in the policy privatization debate: policy consultants and policy-makers. Contributors combine theoretical concepts with empirical research to consider the differences between the European Commission policy privatization process and similar processes in countries around the world. Evaluating European Education Policy-Making provides the first empirical contribution to the study of the private/public policy networks that the Commission uses for the co-production of its 'statework' in the area of education, and ultimately addresses fundamental questions of democracy and accountability.

Author Biography

Manuel Souto-Otero is Senior Lecturer in Education Policy at the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK. He has published widely in the areas of EU education policy, internationalization in education, educational inequality and policy evaluation.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Evaluating European Education Policy-Making in Education and Training: Between Institutional Legitimization and Policy Privatization; Manuel Souto-Otero

2. Competition, Governance and Global Education Policy; Antonio Olmedo and Stephen Ball

3. Breaking Down the Learning Silos: What Role for Employers and the Private Sector in Education and Learning?; Jacob Dencik

4. The Increasing Need for Private Actors in Policymaking at the European Commission; Cyntia Villalba

5. 'All in'? Patterns of Participation in EU Education Policy; Åse Gornitzka

6. The Role of Private Companies in Supporting European Policy in the Field of Education and Training; Daniela Ulicna

7. Higher Education Experts and Commissioned Research: Between Stability, Fragility and Ambiguity?; Jeoren Huisman

8. Conclusions: Who Benefits from EU Policy-Making in Education? The European Commission and the Privatization of Education Policy; Manuel Souto-Otero