Inter- und Transnationalität als Gegenstand der Organisationspädagogik

Zusammenfassung

As the European nation states became established in the nineteenth century, international comparison became a central medium for pedagogical research. In the present day, internationally comparative research in the field has been shaped by large-scale school comparison studies such as PISA or TIMMS, studies carried out within European programmes, or OECD reports. Though these studies have frequently been explicitly aimed at comparing organisations (i.e. schools and school administration bodies), they have rarely been reflected upon from the point of view of organisational studies. As the field of transnational studies develops at the start of the 21st century, a new question arising is whether studies of this kind are subject to methodological nationalism by naturalising the national in these comparisons. More recent approaches indicate accordingly that pedagogical organisations should not be seen as national representatives. Therefore, the first step is to study transferred and transnational knowledge and mobile organisational processes from a transnational point of view before asking in a second step whether and how national features are produced in this process.