Implementing European Union Education and Training Policy: A Comparative Study of Issues in Four Member States

Description

The papers which make up this volume have for the most part emerged from the work of a team of young researchers based for varying periods at the Department of Educational Studies of the University of Oxford as part of an international network funded by the European Union. The network, known as PRESTiGE (Problems of Educational Standardisation and Transition in a Global Environment), involves teams at six European universities, each of which can only employ young researchers from Member States other than that in which it is situated. The Oxford part of PRESTiGE has been concerned with the interpretation, transmission and implementation of European Union education and training policy in four Member States: France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As the leader of the Oxford team I had the good fortune to work with young researchers from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Portugal. Their work is included here. So too are contributions from Jake Murdoch (a member of the Dijon team, based at the Université de Bourgogne) and Professor António Nóvoa, the leader of the Lisbon team. Together the papers (which we have allowed to overlap to some extent, so that each one can be read independently) represent a genuinely international collaborative effort to understand the intentions and the effects of EU education and training policy, and we hope that they will contribute to further discussion of the important issues that those with an interest in European co-operation and development will wish to pursue. Introduction....Pages 1-11 The European Union and Education and Training: An Overview of Policies and Initiatives....Pages 13-39 Educating Europe: An Analysis of EU Educational Policies....Pages 41-72 Interpreting EU Education and Training Policy: Thoughts from the English Perspective....Pages 73-86 Tensions Between the European and the Nordic Dimension in Education, with Particular Reference to Sweden....Pages 87-115 A Comparative Study of the European Dimension in Education in England, Scotland and Wales....Pages 117-141 The European Dimension in the National Curriculum for England....Pages 143-160 European Policies and Transition Processes: The Influence of EU Training Programmes in Eastern Germany....Pages 161-188 The Impact of EU Education and Training Policies in Sweden....Pages 189-212 Eu Programmes in Education and Training: Development and Implementation in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom....Pages 213-264 Standardisation and Differentiation in the Levels of Diplomas in Higher Education Systems in Europe....Pages 265-276 Higher Education Student Mobility and the Interpretation of European Union Educational Policies in France....Pages 277-304