Fabricating Quality in European Education
European Partners
FabQ involves researchers from the Universities of Umea in Sweden (co-ordinator Dr Christina Segerholm), from the University of Southern Denmark (co-ordinator Professor Peter Dahler-Larsen) and from the University of Helsinki in Finland (co-ordinator Professor Hannu Simola). The overall co-ordination of FabQ is the responsibility of Professor Jenny Ozga (CES).
European Project Partners
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Peter
Dahler-Larsen (Denmark) |
Christine Segerholm (Sweden) |
Hannu Simola (Finland) |
Activities that produce evidence about the performance of education systems in Europe, both nationally and internationally, have been increasing considerably in recent years. Audit, inspection, evaluation and regulation along with decentralisation, devolution and deregulation have become the key principles of the restructuring of education systems in Europe. Indeed, the development of indicators and benchmarking as modes of education governing may contribute to the ‘Europeanisation’ of education. This, then, is a major policy development that requires investigation, both through empirical enquiry and theoretical development.
Publications
Working Papers |
WPS1: Quality
Assurance and Evaluation Policy Brokering: Views from Sweden,
Christina Segerholm WPS2: ‘We are doing well on QAE’. The case of Sweden, Christina Segerholm WPF1: All Unintended Effects Will Be Removed by the Authorities! Or: New paradigms for the understanding of evaluative knowledge? Peter Dahler-Larsen |
Dannish Research Team
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Vibeke Normann Andersen, PhD, Head of Department at Department
of Political Science & Public Management at University
of Southern Denmark. Her research areas are educational studies
and public sector reform.
Andersen, V.N. & P.Dahler-Larsen (2007) "The Framing of Public Evaluation Data and the Legislation on Openness and Transparency in Danish Schools" in J.D.Breul, R.Boyle & P.Dahler-Larsen (eds) Open to the Public. Evaluation in the Public Sector. New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers. Andersen, V.N. (2007) "Public spheres, transparency and openness in public services" pp.83-111 in H.Bang & A.Esmark (eds) Public Spheres and Identities in the Network Society. København, Samfundslitteratur. |
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Finnish Research Team
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Janne Varjo's dissertation "Drafting Education Legislation for the Competitive State: Parliament of Finland
and 1990s turn in education policy" was published in 2007 by University of Helsinki, Department of Education. Dr
Varjo is currently working as an associate member for the
FabQ project. Varjo, J. & Meriläinen, R. (2008) Nuorisokoulu osana opetusministeriön visiotyöskentelyä [Youth school as a part of Ministry of Education's new planning activities]. In Meriläinen, R. (ed.) Suomalaisen koulutuspolitiikan murros 1990-luvulla The 1990s shift in Finnish education policy]. Helsinki: OKKA-säätiö. Varjo, J. & Kauko, J. (2008) Indikaattorien aika koulutusindikaattorit valtiollisena hankkeena Suomessa [Age of Indicators - Education indicators as a national project in Finland]. Kasvatus [The Finnish Journal of Education] 39 (3), 246–260. |
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Risto Rinne is a professor of education and director in the Department of Education
at the University of Turku. He is also the director of CELE
(Center for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education)
in the University of Turku as well as the director of the
Finnish National Graduate School on Educational Research.
Rinne has published over 400 scientific publications and
he has led many research projects. His main interests and
publications include sociology of education, international
comparative education, educational policy, citizenship and
learning in knowledge society and history of education. He
has also published many articles and books in the field of
transmission and building the educational knowledge base
in Europe.
Risto's home page in internet: http://vanha.edu.utu.fi/ktl/users/risto_rinne/index_en.php |
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Susanna Hannus is doing dissertation of effects of the new policy technologies
in lower secondary schools in socially different areas and
lower secondary schools' new mode of governing. Hannus studied
quality evaluation and primary schools' mode of governing
in her Master's thesis.
Hannus, S. 2006. Laadun arviointi ja uusi hallinnan tapa. Pro gradututkielma. [Quality evaluation and assessment and a new way to govern. Master's thesis. University of Helsinki. Department of Education.] Hannus, S. 2007. Koulupudokkuuden mekanismit ja nuorisotyön keinot. [Mechanisms of school drop-out and resources of youth work]. The Finnish Journal of Youth Work Nuorisotyö (5), 2007, 8–10. Hannus, S. 2007. Monikerroksinen uusi hallinnan tapa alakouluissa. [New multilayer mode of governing in primary schools]. The Finnish Journal of Education Kasvatus. 38(5), 400–416. |
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e-mail: c.newton@ed.ac.uk or phone no: 0131 651 6243