The Differentiation of Transnational Education in Europe (and Beyond)

Autor: Pieter Vanden Broeck, Eric Mangez
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3369050
Popis: In 2014 the European Commission introduced a reform of its previous funding efforts in the realm of education, which grouped them together under a single banner, baptised ‘Erasmus+’. With this new instrument, it funds a wide array of educational activities that range far beyond the institutional limits of what Guy Vincent once termed the ‘school form’. The programme thus gives articulate expression to Europe’s credo that ‘no single institution, school or company, can claim to be able to develop the skills needed’ for life in the new learning society. This paper starts from the curious coincidence of the establishment of a European educational space with the active corrosion of the institutional contours of school in order to examine how such transnational education thus mirrors, therefore both mimics and deviates from, the morphogenesis of the national school system. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Niklas Luhmann, it argues for understanding the Europeanisation of education as a means for growth by internal disjunction. That is: as an internal differentiation of the global education system, which surpasses the limits the former developed in reference to the nation-state, thus resettling and dramatically expanding the limits of what counts as meaningful education.
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