Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy in Europe

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Norman Fairclough (Editor), Bob Jessop (Editor), Ruth Wodak (Editor), Ruth Professor Wodak (Editor)
• Publisher: Sense Publ
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9789087906238
• ISBN: 978-90-8790-623-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Educational Futures: Rethinkin; Educational Futures: Rethinkin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries