Sverker Lindblad – författare

Lärarutbildning, makt och politik är en forskningsantologi som synliggör hur lärarutbildningar formas i ett spänningsfält mellan högskola, skolpolitik, profession, media och överstatliga aktörer som OECD. Boken skiljer mellan politiken, det vill säga statliga beslut och reformer, och ”det politiska”, det vill säga hur gränser, hierarkier och kunskap ordnas inom och kring lärarutbildning.Genom kritiska analyser visar forskarna hur lärarutbildning organiseras och styrs och hur detta inverkar på lärarprofessionen. Boken behandlar också historiska rörelser – från seminarie­traditioner till akademisering och övernationell styrning – och beskriver hur forskningsfältet har utvecklats i Sverige och internationellt. Sammantaget visas att lärarutbildning är mer än en utbildning – den är en arena där frågor om kunskap, politik och profession stöts, blöts och omförhandlas. För att hitta hållbara vägar framåt pekar forskarna på behovet av långsiktig styrning, starka forskningsmiljöer och en genomtänkt koppling mellan vetenskap och praktik.Boken vänder sig till lärarutbildare, lärarstudenter och lärare samt till skolhuvudmän och politiker.

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as ‘rationales’ to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as ‘rationales’ to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

A volume in International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice. Series Editor: Kathryn M. Borman, University of South Florida.

A volume in International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice. Series Editor: Kathryn M. Borman, University of South Florida.

This book represents a set of critical analyses of educational reforms where issues of transnational governance are of vital concern. It focuses on different aspects of, and practices in educational reform-making, and in particular on governing techniques and the working of new agencies such as supranational and multinational organizations. In addition, the book examines contemporary issues of immigration/immigrants in the politics of schooling, by reflecting on matters of migration, and problematizing how concepts such as exclusion and abjection make the migrants appear “failed”, “insufficient” and even “dangerous”.The book provides theoretical insights into critical relations between knowledge and power, governance and governmentality, and notions concerning educational systems, as well as how these are compared. The central themes of the book are models for organizing and reflecting on transnationalization and educational reforms. In its discussion of those themes, the focus lies on changing conceptions of education and the educational system; on how school or teacher education is adapting to discourses of effectiveness and efficiency; and on their transformation according to standardized templates. Such changing conceptions define the meanings of education and educational progress; they are important for the identification and analysis of educational knowledge, and for critical discourses on education in society.

This book represents a set of critical analyses of educational reforms where issues of transnational governance are of vital concern.