Fabricating Europe The Formation of an Education Space
Fabricating Europe has within it a core idea, a crucial but imprecise idea, that of a European educational space, which transnational governance, networks and cultural and economic projects are creating now. Yet, the perceptible creation of this contempor
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Fabricating Europe The Formation of an Education Space
Edited by
António Nóvoa and
Martin Lawn
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW
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0-306-47561-8 1-4020-0801-5
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Fabricating Europe: The Formation of an Education Space António Nóvoa and Martin Lawn
1
FOREWORD: Space and Learning Goran Therborn
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CHAPTER 1: Borderless Education: Imagining a European Education Space in a Time of Brands and Networks Martin Lawn
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IMAGINING SPACE CHAPTER 2: Education and the European Space of Flows David Coulby
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CHAPTER 3: Notes towards the Definition of a European Educational Space Franco Ferrarotti
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CHAPTER 4: Locating European Identity in Education Yasemin Soysal
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GLOBALIZING SPACE CHAPTER 5: Reterritorializing Educational Import: Explorations into the Politics of Educational Borrowing Gita Steiner-Khamsi
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CHAPTER 6: Returning to Europe: The Use of External References in Reconceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia Iveta Silova
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CHAPTER 7: Quality Education and Training for Tomorrow’s Europe: A Contrapuntal Reading of European Commission Documents Ronald Sultana
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CHAPTER 8: Ways of Thinking about Education in Europe António Nóvoa
131
CHAPTER 9: Coda: Europe, Social Space and the Politics of Knowledge Terri Seddon
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Index
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INTRODUCTION
FABRICATING EUROPE The Formation of an Education Space
1. INVITATION TO ENGAGE This book emerged out of an invitational seminar, which took place in Lisbon, supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation. The purpose of the meeting was to create a discussion between invited participants on the possibility of a European public space for education/public spaces interweaved with education: the novel situation for educators in Europe, which, it was felt, needed a careful exploration. Members of the meeting were invited because of the critical contribution they had made to an exploratory theoretical understanding of the current situation which educators and citizens in Europe were finding themselves in. Expressed in the invitation to the Lisbon meeting was a core idea, an ambiguous and fuzzy idea, of a European educational space, created by transnational governance, networks, cultural and economic projects. This is a new idea, recording the emergence of particular discourses and practices, but it is not clear what it is, even as it is being formed. It is being produced by national state collaboration, European Union (EU) guidelines and products, academic networks, social movements, business links a
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