Beschreibung:
This book argues that data and their use constitute a form of governance of education. It highlights the ways in which education is steered and managed so that a European education policy space is 'fabricated' through data which travel across national systems, and which enter and restructure provision to make it measurable, comparable and governable.
Introduction 1. Changing Spatial and Social Relations in Education in Europe 2: Fabricating Europe: From Culture to Numbers 3. Europe Through Experts and Technologies 4. National Policy Brokering and the Construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland 5. Europe and the Global: The Role of the OECD in Education Politics 6. Europe in Translation 7. The Governance Turn 8. Governing by Numbers: The Rise of Data in Education 9. Central-Local Relations of Governance 10: Teachers' Perceptions of Quality Assurance and Evaluation Afterwod: Evaluation as a Field and as a Source of Reflection