Higher education systems are caught between two dynamic processes, one referring to
economic value and the other to status value. Although these political rationalities are …

Mathias Decuypere a and Pieter Vanden Broeck b aMethodology of Educational Sciences
Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; bInstitut dTanalyse du changement dans …

Several authors have underlined that processes of Europeanisation of education emerge
despite the European Union's lack of formal power in this area. This article argues on the …

This article argues for using French pragmatic sociology to explore tensions regarding
teachers' work, by studying critique formulated by teachers themselves. Based on interviews …

Taking a point of departure in the paradoxical fact that the increase in educational
knowledge leads to an increase in uncertainty for educational organisations, this article …

This introductory chapter introduces standards and standardisation as concepts of outmost
relevance to current educational practice and policy across the world, and frames them …

This editorial introduces the European Educational Research Journal special issue that
hosts four articles co-authored by emerging researchers in the field of educational research …

Concerns about the teacher's role—what should the teacher do and how critical is that work—
have come to occupy the attention of transnational organizations (OECD, 2005; UNESCO …

The present work aims to investigate social competences as part of the broad discourse on
social and emotional skills, abilities and competences (SESACs). The objective is to nourish …

The paper focus is the political processes of recontextualization, in Portuguese schools, of a
policy pilot to combat retention and dropout, in basic/secondary education, through …