Gamarnikow, Eva;
(2009)
Education in Network Society: Critical Reflections.
In: Cowen, R. and Kazamias, Andreas M and Kazamias, A.M., (eds.)
International Handbook of Comparative Education.
(pp. 619-631).
Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, Netherlands.
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Abstract
The main aim of this chapter is to raise a number of key questions about the current ‘education and globalisation’ policy discourse. This discussion is contextualised in critical reflections on how the thesis underpinning Castells' (2000) Network Societyhas been appropriated as a claim about the knowledge society and its significance in the era of globalisation. The main argument of the chapter is that Network Societyis a treatise focusing primarily on changes in the economy, technology and work, and on the importance of the nation state, of the sphere of politics, in mediating economic and social changes. The focus of Network Societyrequires educational researchers to address issues which tend to be elided in discussions about education, namely the nature of the link between education and economy, technology and work. There is a tendency in policy sociology to treat economy, technology and work as taken-for-granted givens, occasionally under the conceptual umbrella of globalisation, whose main role is to act as a source of policy imperatives for expanding or otherwise intervening in education. The aim of this chapter is to explore the discourses constituting these sites of the policy trajectory, namely, the context of influence (Ball, 2006) of the contours and shape of education policy. The chapter is organised in six main parts. The first three engage with the themes of Network Societywhich articulate with education policy. The following three sections are concerned with employment, education as human capital development and social mobility as key elements in policy discourses. The main focus of the argument is on the policy tensions which arise from the failure of current education policy to address the central theme identified in Network Society, namely its capitalist form.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Education in Network Society: Critical Reflections |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4020-6402-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4020-6403-6_39 |
| Publisher version: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-40... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10003448 |
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