Naslov
How are grassroots activists analysing and contesting policy travel

Autori
Doolan, Karin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
UNIKE ljetna škola "Policy travel"

Mjesto i datum
Ljubljana, Slovenija, 07.07.2014. - 11.07.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
education policy analysis; contestations

Sažetak
Education policy analysis is not the exclusive privilege of education policy researchers. Education policies are analysed in governmental agencies, civil society organisations, as well as by student activists. For example, the Academic Solidarity Union and the Independent Student Initiative in Croatia have been making sense of (and contesting) the import of higher education policies from a critical theory perspective, as exemplifying the globalisation of neoliberal ideology. Apart from Dolenec and Doolan (2013), writing about the Croatian context, such grassroots theorisations and contestations have been identified by Giroux (2013) in his discussion of the Quebec student movement, and Alcántara et al. (2013) writing about student protests in Mexico. We will be exploring how grassroots activists in Croatia have understood the higher education policy process, with a focus on policy travel, and how their analysis fares against characteristics of ‘good policy analysis’ in education, suggested by authors such as Rizvi and Lingard (2010). How do these activists recognise the ‘relationality’ and ‘inteconnectivity’ of policy developments? How do they conceptualise the broader discursive policy context? What is the initiatives’ positionality in these understandings and contestations? What can education policy researchers learn from them and what can they learn from education policy researchers?

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

POVEZANOST RADA