Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy in Europe (Educational Futures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9087906226 ISBN 13: 9789087906221

Publisher: Sense Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

This book addresses the recent impact of the knowledge-based economy as an economic imaginary and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale. The contributors come from various disciplinary backgrounds (education, history, linguistics, sociology) but share a commitment to trans-disciplinary research and a view that changes in educational policy and practice can productively be researched with a focus on discourse. The papers in this collection apply a range of approaches to discourse analysis, as well as narrative policy analysis, and several contributors use a cultural political economy perspective which incorporates a version of critical discourse analysis. The book will be of interest to researchers, post-graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in several subject areas, including education, discourse studies and political economy.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9087906226
• ISBN 13: 9789087906221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Jessop Bob, Fairclough Norman, Wodak Ruth Professor