Keynotes:
Keynote lecture will include the following.
Lars Hulgård:
Social Innovation and People-centered Development. About Boaventura de Souza Santos ”Opening up the Canon of Knowledge”.
Betina Dybbroe:
Work Identity and the Contradictory Experiences Of Welfare Workers.
Henning Salling Olesen:
Psycho-societal interpretation
Stephen Carney:
Policy as practice: research education policy in global times
Stephen Carney, Associate professor, Educational Studies
Education policy scholarship is a broad field that considers visions and texts as well as the processes around their production and implementation. These processes can both be formal and informal; stable and dynamic, coherent and chaotic. Just as education policy is a broad field, so too are the range of approaches to policy analysis. These include contributions from functionalist, Marxist, post-structuralist and post-modern schools of thought.
Increasingly, education policy scholars take account of the globalization of society, not least the new role of the nation state (and state-based policy making) at a time when nations are being challenged and remade by intra and supra-national policy processes. From this perspective, educational phenomena – from policy visions to practices – are conceptualized as increasingly interconnected. This has profound consequences for researching education reform in any given local context. What is authentic? What is foreign? Which actors shape policy-making and what is the new role of national ‘culture’ in such processes? The lecture will illustrate how particular ‘national’ cases are connected imaginatively and materially, how particular ‘localities’ are being produced by global flows, and how we need to think afresh about the emerging ‘global’ policy landscape that shapes our engagement with/ in education. The lecture will thus have a strong orientation towards researching education under global conditions and I shall illustrate a number of strategies to ‘follow’ global policy in particular empirical sites.
Detailed summaries of these presentations will be accessible on the seminar’s website.