Undergraduate Course: Education Policy in the EU (SCPL10031)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Education and social policy more generally have gone through several important transformations in the last half century in Europe. This course aims to discuss some of these changes. It will deal mainly with education policy, examining how, by whom and with what effects policy is made, and also discussing its role in the changing character of democracy. The course will examine education policy as an important, yet peripheral and largely ignored, policy area in the making of Europe. First we will trace it historically during its 40 years of development; second, we will study the more recent emphasis on learning as an economic resource for European societies, a source of social cohesion but also interestingly- as one of the most common modes of policy making in Europe (i.e. policy learning); and finally, the course will discuss the role of education governance in Europe, currently and in the future. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- develop an advanced understanding of the development of education policy within the European Union
- critically assess the impact of globalisation on education policy in Europe
- understand and critically debate the transfer of education research and policy between countries
- understand the role of the OECD in national and European education policy making
- develop research, analytical and presentation skills, through guided research in preparation for assessment and tutorials
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Reading List
Byrne, D. and Ozga, J. (2006), BERA Review 2006: Education Research And Policy, British Educational Research Association.
Dale, R. (1999), żSpecifying globalisation effects on national policy: a focus on the mechanismsż, Journal of Education Policy, 14 , pp. 1-17.
Davies, P. (2002), żThe relevance of systematic reviews to educational policy and practice.ż Oxford Review of Education, 26 (3/4), pp. 365-378.
Desrosičres, A. (1998), The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press (chapter 8: żClassifying and Encodingż)
Dolowitz, D and Marsh, D (1996) żWho Learns What from Whom: a review of the policy transfer literatureż, Political Studies XLIV (2), 343-357
Freeman, R (2006) żLearning in public policyż, in Rein, M, Moran, M and Goodin, R E (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford: Oxford UP
Freeman, R (2007) żEpistemological bricolage: how practitioners make sense of learningż, Administration and Society 39 (4) 476-496
Giddens, A. (1998), żGlobalisationż, in The Third Way, Cambridge: Polity, pp. 28-33.
Giddens, A. (1998), żInto the global ageż, in The Third Way, Cambridge: Polity, pp. 129-53.
Gray, J. (1998), False Dawn: the Delusions of Global Capitalism, London: Granta.
Held, D and McGrew A (eds) (2002/2007), Globalization/Anti-Gobalization (esp intro and Part 1), Cambridge: Polity,
Hodkinson, P and Smith, J.K. (2004), żThe relationship between research, policy and practice.ż In: Thomas, G. and Pring, R., eds. (2004). Evidence-Based Practice in Education. Maidenhead: Open UP/McGraw-Hill. pp. 150-163.
Lawn, M. (2006), żSoft Governance and the Learning Spaces of Europeż, Comparative European Politics, 4, 272-288.
Levitt, B and March, J (1998) żOrganizational learningż, Annual Review of Sociology 14, 319-340
Martens, K. (2007), żHow to become an influential actor żthe żcomparative turnż in OECD education policyż, in K. Martens, A. Rusconi and K. Lutz (eds) Transformations of the State and Global Governance, London: Routledge, 40-56.
Novoa, A and Lawn, M. (eds), (2002), Fabricating Europe: the Formation of an Education Space, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nutley, S., Walter, I. and Davies, H. (2003), żFrom knowing to doing: a framework for understanding the evidence-into-practice agendaż, Evaluation, 9, pp. 125-48.
Ozga J and Lingard B. (2007), żGlobalisation, Education Policy and Politicsż in Lingard, B and Ozga J (eds) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics, London, Routledge.
Porter, T. M (1995), Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press (chapter 8: żObjectivity and the Politics of Disciplinesż and chapter 9: żIs Science Made by Communities?ż)
Power, M. (2004), żCounting, control and calculation: Reflections on measuring and managementż, Human Relations, 57, 765-783.
Rogers, E (2003) The Diffusion of Innovations, fifth edition, New York: Free Press.
Rose, N. (1999), Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (chapter 6: żNumbersż)
Rose, R (1991), żWhat is lesson-drawing?ż, Journal of Public Policy 11(1), 3-30.
Rose, R (2000), żWhat can we learn from abroad?ż, Parliamentary Affairs, 53, 628-43.
Schön, D A (1973) Beyond the Stable State. Public and private learning in a changing society, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Simon, H (1991) żBounded rationality and organizational learningż, Organization Science 2(1), 125-134
Wenger, E (2000) żCommunities of practice and learning systemsż, Organization 7(2,) 225-246. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Education policy, European Union, democracy, learning as economice resource for European societies |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sotiria Grek
Tel: (0131 6)51 3180
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Course secretary | Miss Amy Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8253
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