Shaping of European Education

Martin Lawn is an Honorary Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.Romuald Normand is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France.

• 1. Introduction Martin Lawn and Romuald Normand 2. Education Governance and Transnational Experts: Europe, OECD and the New Politics of Policy Mobilisation Sotiria Grek 3. The "French Pinnacle" of PISA. A Boundary Object between Translations and Irreversibility Romuald Normand 4. Soft Governance through PISA Benchmarking – German Reforms in Secondary Education Tonia Bieber, Dennis Niemann and Kerstin Martens 5. Power as Translation in the Global Governance of Education Nelli Piattoeva 6. Worlds of Educational Standards: Complex Interplays between Sociologies of Education Paolo Landri 7. The Understories of European Education: The Contemporary Life of Experts and Professionals Martin Lawn 8. "Speaking Truth to Power"? On the Challenges of Collaborative Research through European Funding Eric Mangez and Pieter Vanden Broeck 9. The (C)SI effect – School Inspection as Crime Scene Investigation Joakim Lindgren and John Clarke 10. What Kind of Public Sphere Shapes the European Educational Research Space? Marybel Suarez 11. Higher Education Governance Reforms in Europe: Concepts, Measurement and Empirical Findings Michael Dobbins and Christoph Knill 12. Transnational Academic Mobility from the Perspective of Gender Inequality – Researcher Flows and Knowledge Construction in Europe Regula Julia Leemann and Stefan Boes