The Growing Supranational Impacts of the OECD and the EU on National Educational Policies, and the Case of Finland

Autor/in	Rinne, Risto
Titel	The Growing Supranational Impacts of the OECD and the EU on National Educational Policies, and the Case of Finland
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 6 (2008) 6, S.665-680 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2008.6.6.665
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Case Studies; International Cooperation; International Organizations; International Studies; Global Approach; Trend Analysis; Educational Change; Policy Analysis; Politics of Education; National Standards; Standard Setting; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Internationaler Studiengang; Globales Denken; Trendanalyse; Bildungsreform; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational policy; Standardisierung; Finnland
Abstract	The trends of globalisation have had unavoidable impacts in steering and guiding the decisions of national policy-makers and the direction of national education policies. In the obscuring processes of supranational homogenisation of education and educational policy, supranational regimes, such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU), play a significant role. The traditional idea of meritocratic competition is challenged by globalisation and by the new standard setting of the supranational organisations, and nation-states are losing their power to define standards and to control the key features of educational selection. The process is proceeding particularly in the field of higher education, where the stakes to win reputational capital are at their highest. The message, objectives and language of those organisations are cast in the same mould. They have started to speak in the same words with the same stress, repeating the same phrases about globalisation, economic efficiency and productivity, and swearing that globalisation is inevitable in the name of progress. In this article, historical change in the educational policies of the OECD and the EU and the implication of these policies for national education policies are studied. Special emphasis is laid on the field of higher education and the national case of Finland. (Contains 2 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10