Education and the knowledge-based economy in Europe / / edited by Bob Jessop, Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jessop, Bob,; Fairclough, Norman, 1941-; Wodak, Ruth, 1950-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale. The contributors come from various disciplinary backgrounds (education, history, linguistics, sociology) but share a commitment to trans-disciplinary research and a view that changes in educational policy and practice can productively be researched with a focus on discourse. The papers in this collection apply a range of approaches to discourse analysis, as well as narrative policy analysis, and several contributors use a cultural political economy perspective which incorporates a version of critical discourse analysis. The book will be of interest to researchers, post-graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in several subject areas, including education, discourse studies and political economy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Bob Jessop , Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak -- Introduction / Bob Jessop -- A Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness and its Implications for Higher Education / Bob Jessop -- From ‘Humboldt’ to ‘Bologna’: history as discourse in higher education reform debates in German-speaking Europe / Mitchell G. Ash -- The EU as an emerging normative power in the global knowledge-based economy? Recognition Regimes for higher education qualifications / Eva Hartmann -- Embracing the global: crisis and the creation of a new semiotic order to secure Europe’s knowledge-based economy / Susan L. Robertson -- The Bologna Process and the knowledge-based economy: a critical discourse analysis approach / Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak -- ‘Requisite irony’ and ‘the knowledge-based economy’ / Peter D. Jones -- Using keywords analysis in CDA: evolving discourses of the knowledge economy in education / Jane Mulderrig -- ‘Finland is a small country’ narrative construction of the internationalisation of higher education / Terhi Nokkala -- Conclusion: shifting discourses and mediating structures in the co-construction of Europe, knowledge and universities / Roger Dale -- Notes on Contributors / Bob Jessop , Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak -- Index / Bob Jessop , Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak.