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

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...

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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
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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.