Session Information
23 SES 10 C, Governing by Inspection
Symposium
Contribution
The proposed symposium reports on the initial findings from a three-year (2010-2013) joint Swedish Research Council and UK Economic and Social Research Council project exploring inspection and the governing of education in Sweden, Scotland and England. The symposium will introduce the key concepts framing the project, and report on the preliminary analysis of data relating to the changing nature of inspection in the 3 countries. There is an increase in inspection activity throughout Europe (SICI 2008), indeed there are increasing and coordinated efforts for the internationalisation of inspection outcomes in Europe (Troost 2001). This is linked to the policy drive to improve the performance of education systems in Europe, given added urgency by anxiety about the Lisbon objectives and the impact of the current economic crisis. The knowledge economy demands effective forms of steering and governing education systems (Jessop et al 2008 Ozga 2008) yet while policy learning from best practice is strongly promoted in governing discourse (see for example OECD 2004, EC 2007) the achievement of a productive balance between ‘pressure and support’ (Barber 2007) seems elusive at all system levels-from the transnational to the institutional. Waves of deregulation and decentralisation are accompanied or succeeded by re-regulation and/or increased centralisation in the emergent global and European education policy fields (Lawn and Grek 2009 Helgøy et al. 2007). In this symposium, we draw on perspectives on changing governance and Europeanisation (Clarke 2008, Ozga et al 2011to discuss the emergent findings from our study.
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