The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education - The Fabrication of the Homo Academicus Europeanus? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new knowledge impacts other actors in charge of implementing this knowledge in the context of the decision-making process and practice. The book describes knowledge-based and evidence-based technologies that produce new modes of representation, cognitive categories, and value-based judgements which determine and guide actions and interactions between researchers, experts and policy-makers. It explores several major social theories and concepts, analysing the transformation of the relationship between educational and social sciences and politics. In the light of epistemic governance being linked to transformations of academic capitalism, the book describes the ways in which academics engaged in heterogeneous networks are capable of developing new interactions as well as facing new trials imposed on them by the changing conditions of producing knowledge in their scientific community and within their institutions. Knowledge is power. It is materialized in metrics, policy instruments and embedded in networks. The governance of European higher education, insightfully argues Romuald Normand, is not structured by hierarchical public policies, by governmental exercise of authority or heroic decision making. Normand makes a sophisticated intellectual argument, building upon the work of Foucault, Latour (Sociology of science), and the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thevenot (sociology of justification) in order to precisely analyse Europe's higher education through the circulation of ideas and instruments. Based upon precise research, the book is a major contribution to the understanding of high education in a capitalist Europe, beyond the simple idea of neo liberalism. Normand, provocatively, even suggests the making of a European Homo Academicus. This is an innovative and important book for public policy, European Studies and the sociology of Education. Patrick le Gales, FBA, CNRS Research Professor, Centre d'Etudes Europeennes, Sciences Po, Paris, France

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Educational Governance Research, 3
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Romuald Normand
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	235
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-31774-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	3-319-31774-1
Barcode:	9783319317748

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