Education Contested de Jules L. Peschar

Education Contested: Changing Relations between State, Market and Civil Society in Modern European Education

Jules L. Peschar

Marieke van der Wal

This text discusses the relationship between state, market, civil society and education, examining such topics as: development in education inspectorates; the way in which universities are stimulated to support themselves financially; and the way education prepares students for citizenship.

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Preface 1 Central Issues and Changing Perspectives in European Comparative Education Part 1: State 2 World Class Schools: Some Preliminary Findings from the International School Effectiveness Research Project (ISERP) 3 Paying the Price for ‘Deregulation’: The Rise of External School Evaluation through Inspection 4 Curriculum Control in ‘Deregulated’ and Bureaucratic Educational Systems in Europe: The Cases of England and Greece 5 How Can an Educational System be Decentralised while Preserving its Unity? The Case of Russia and France Part 2: Market 6 Universities, Markets and the State: Higher Education Financing as a Laboratory of Change 7 The State, Civil Society and Economies: The University and the Politics of Space 8 Education Between State and Private Delivery: Civil Society as Equilibrium. The Dutch Case 9 Capacity Building for Market Orientation in Higher Education: Experiences in Vietnam and Kenya Part 3: Civil Society 10 The Current State of the French Education System: A Contrast Balance Sheet 11 University Training for Adults in the Light of the Interaction Between University and the Civil Society 12 Pakistani Immigrants: A Challenge to Norwegian Schools and Social Equity 13 University Selectivity and Employment: A Comparison Between British and French Graduates.

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Jules L. Peschar is professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He was chair of national evaluation programmes in education and consultant to the Ministry of Education and OECD. His main interest is in cross-national research and international education indicators, in particular Cross-Curricular Competencies. Marieke van der Wal is a PhD Student at the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Sociology of Education has her general interest. Cross-Curricular Competencies is the subject of her dissertation. Her dissertation will go into a conceptualisation and measurement of Cross-Curricular Competencies and can be expected in autumn 2002.