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SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

From conservative to pragmatic modernization of education? International comparative analysis of the restructuring of educational policy.

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

We outline an international comparative study situated within the tradition of critical educational policy analysis focusing on changing political ideologies, visions and objectives, the implementation of reforms and new mechanisms, and activities related to structure, governance, content and systems of support and control. Part of our intention is to understand the educational and societal impacts and outcomes/effects, possibilities and constraints, contradictions, resistance and alternatives across the different contexts where neoliberal and neoconservative policies have been influential. The project seeks to provide important theoretical, historical and empirical understandings of the ongoing educational restructuring process at the system and at the local, institutional and organizational level. In order to work successfully towards an understanding of the educational restructuring, a consistent theoretical framework will be developed to guide the research and underpin the analysis and confrontation with empirical data to be collected. The project approaches educational restructuring as a process of ideological, systemic, institutional innovation, change and adaptation in an international and multi-level policy environment. It seeks to identify is sues and measures related to funding, organization and content at the level of supra national policies and national policies as well as local and institutional policies. It aims to identify ideological positions and to map the substance of the policies an d change at the different levels. It will analyze the extent to which national contexts and policies, organizational settings and action reinforce convergence or divergence in restructuring educational systems and institutions.

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SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

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