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An Epistemic Governance of European Education

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The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education

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This chapter explores the specification of knowledge regimes in different countries under the impact of globalisation as well as the circulation of knowledge-based technologies and their consequences on the emergence of a new epistemic governance in European education. While each country maintains specific organisational and institutional properties, the chapter demonstrates the importance of international networks and travelling policies, mediated by numbers and measurement tools, in the genesis of the European knowledge-based economy which legitimises the power of expertise and a new conception of the relationships between science and policy. This technocratic and neo-liberal turn serves as a political project promoting entrepreneurial university and utilitarian research findings.

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    Contrary to them, we use the word “research entities” instead of “research units” to avoid any confusion about the tasks achieved in some of these institutions outside of academia, which are often more expertise than research.

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