European Politics of Education

<p>A European Politics of <i>Education</i> proposes a sociology of education establishing connections between empirical data coming from European-scale comparative surveys normative assumptions structuring actors’ representations and interpretative judgements and a specific focus on Lifelong Learning policy areas. It invites readers to think about the place of standards expertise and calculations in the European space from a common perspective supported by a tradition of critical sociology and European political studies.</p><p>The book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Addresses an important agenda: how the policies and politics of supranational Europe are making a European educational space</li> <p> </p> <li>Contains a response to the emergence of new epistemic governance and instruments at European level</li> <p> </p> <li>Contains contributions from the EU and the UK which give a comprehensive selection of perspectives and analysis of the field as it concerns Europe</li> </ul><p>The complexity of the contemporary European education policy space is addressed here with new lines of inquiry as well as a reflexive outlook on standardization policy-making and actor engagement. Students and researchers of European policy studies education policy analysts and theorists will all be particularly interested readers. </p>