“The New Governing of Education: Privatisation

“The New Governing of Education: Privatisation, Profit and Knowledge for Policy”
40th Anniversary seminar of the Faculty of Education,
organised by the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE)
and KEVEKO Doctoral Programme, University of Turku
TIME AND VENUE
October 8-9, 2014 in the meeting room of the Faculty 441, 4th floor, Educarium, Assistentinkatu 5,
Turku
THEME
To celebrate the 40 year’s anniversary of the Turku University Faculty of Education, the Centre for
Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE) and the Doctoral Programme KEVEKO
organise an international seminar on one of the central research themes of the Department of
Education: ‘new’ governing of education.
The seminar identifies the main features of governing education that may be understood as ‘new’.
In particular, there is a focus on the changing role of knowledge (as performance data) and the
increased activity of private sector actors in bringing change about. Research in education has not,
on the whole, kept pace with these developments, and political science has been slow to recognise
the importance of education as a policy field for understanding of more general change in
governing. This seminar seeks to fill this gap by bringing interdisciplinary perspectives (from
political science, sociology of knowledge and political sociology) to bear in identifying key ideas
and tensions in new governing.
The questions we address include
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What is new about ‘new’ governing? How widespread is it, in the European context? What
factors influence its adoption?
How is knowledge production influenced by and influential in new governing?
Which actors are empowered and which displaced by new governing?
In addition to the theme above, during the seminar the personnel of CELE and the doctoral
candidates of the KEVEKO present their ongoing research and research projects on a variety of
topics. The seminar opens the window to the wide range of research of CELE and KEVEKO as
well as the people behind it.
TARGET GROUP
This seminar is of vital interest to anyone studying current policy in education, or involved in the
education sector as a teacher or administrator. It seeks to understand and highlight growing trends
in the control and direction of education systems, and to generate debate about national
particularities that may help to shape or resist these trends-in Finland and elsewhere. Doctoral
candidates from political science and sociology, as well as Doctoral candidates and personnel of
the faculty, are very welcome. Also students and researchers from other universities are warmly
welcome.
Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta • Faculty of Education
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 8831
www.utu.fi/edu
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
To stimulate discussion, the two guest speakers, Martin Lawn and Jenny Ozga, will draw on their
recent and current research to present papers on two dimension of new governing:
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Visiting Professor in the Department of Education, Martin Lawn from the University of
Edinburgh and University of Oxford will discuss the emergence of the ‘shadow state’, that is,
(perhaps especially but not exclusively in England) the increasing outsourcing of education
services to private providers, and will look at the networks of entrepreneurs and consultants
who are now ‘shadowing’ government and often influencing the direction of policy for profit. He
considers how we should best understand this phenomenon (does it replace or extend the
state?) and raises questions about trust, accountability and democracy within this emerging
system.
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Professor Jenny Ozga, University of Oxford will talk about the changes in knowledge that
are accompanying – and perhaps shaping, and being shaped by – the new governing. She
argues that knowledge is now ‘forming’ policy, rather than simply informing it, but suggests that
this is a specific kind of ‘actionable’ knowledge, that reduces complexity and choice for policy
makers, often through the mechanism of comparison. Her talk will connect to Martin Lawn’s
through attention to the growing role of major publishing companies like Pearson in creating
large scale data sets that offer apparently comprehensive knowledge about system
performance. She also looks at the implications of advances in data systems – especially the
growth of constant monitoring – for the governing of learners and teachers.
REGISTRATION FOR THE SEMINAR
For participation to the seminar, please register at by September 30th in
https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/6C206D0E4E8771F4.par
NB. The Faculty of Education and KEVEKO offer the registered participants of the whole day(s)
(Wednesday and/or Thursday) a free lunch at Macciavelli’s cabinet and a coffee in the afternoon.
ORGANISER
Doctoral Programme on Educational Policy, Lifelong Learning and Comparative Education
Research KEVEKO and the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE),
Department of Education, University of Turku
Further information: Coordinator of the KEVEKO Doctoral Programme Sanna Niukko,
email [email protected] or tel +358 2 333 8843
Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta • Faculty of Education
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 8831
www.utu.fi/edu
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, October 8th
10:00–10:10
Welcome, Director of KEVEKO Doctoral Programme, Professor Risto Rinne
10:10–11:10
Keynote lecture of Professor Martin Lawn: ‘The Shadow State: The Shift to ForProfit Companies in English Education’ (1h)
11:10–11:45
Invited responses from a professor and a doctoral candidate (2 x 10 min) of CELE
and KEVEKO: Professor Heikki Silvennoinen and Doctoral Candidate Heikki
Kinnari
Discussion (15 min)
11:45–12:45
Lunch served at Restaurant Macciavelli (two cabinets reserved)
12:45–14:00
Ongoing research projects in CELE and KEVEKO – Short presentations of the
personnel, chair Martin Lawn (3 x 20 min):
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University Research Fellow Piia Seppänen: ‘Parents and School Choice.
Family Strategies, Segregation and School Policies in Chilean and Finnish
Basic Schooling (PASC)’
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Johanna Kallo, Doctoral Candidates Olli
Suominen and Zhou Xingguo: ‘Trans-national Dynamics in QAE Politics of
Basic Education in Brazil, Russia and China (BCR)’
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Assistant Professor Tero Järvinen: ‘International study of city youth (ISCY)’
Discussion
14:00-14:30
Coffee served on the lobby of 4th floor
14:30–15:45
Ongoing doctoral research in KEVEKO – Short presentations (5-10 min) of the
Doctoral candidates of the KEVEKO doctoral programme: the contribution of
faculty’s doctoral candidates to understanding education policy (or a more general
theme, if needed)
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All students are welcome to present their research, please register by Sept
30th
Discussion
Thursday, October 9th
9:15–10:15
Keynote lecture of Professor Jenny Ozga: ‘Knowledge Works: how data, expertise
and inspection build the European Education Policy Space’ (1h)
10:15-10:45
Invited responses from a professor and a senior lecturer (2 x 10 min) of CELE and
KEVEKO: Professor Arto Jauhiainen and N.N. (to be confirmed)
Discussion (10 minutes)
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00–12:00
Ongoing research projects in CELE and KEVEKO – Short presentations of the
personnel, chair Jenny Ozga (3 x 20 min):
Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta • Faculty of Education
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 8831
www.utu.fi/edu
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tuomas Zacheus_ ‘ Transitions and
educational trajectories of immigrant youth: A 4-year longitudinal study from
compulsory to further education’
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Professor Heikki Silvennoinen: ‘Skills development for realizing the workforce
competence reserve (SkillsREAL)’
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Professor Arto Jauhiainen: ‘Academic teachers and doctoral students in the
tumult of changing university’
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Discussion
12:00–13:00
Lunch served at Restaurant Macciavelli (two cabinets reserved)
13:00-14:30
Panel Discussion: ‘The Consequences and Implications of the New Governing of
Education: Privatisation, Profit and Knowledge for Policy’ (1h 30 min)
Participants: Martin Lawn, Jenny Ozga, Risto Rinne, Arto Jauhiainen, N.N. and
N.N. (to be confirmed), Chair N.N. (to be confirmed)
Background reading relevant to the lectures
For professorial & student responses to Martin Lawn’s lecture, the following texts may be useful:
Ball, S.J. and Junemann C. (2012) Networks, New Governance and Education, Bristol, the Policy
Press
Shiroma, E. O. (2014) Expert-Consultants and Knowledge production: Teachers for EFA in Brazil’
In Fenwick, T, Mangez, E and Ozga, J (eds) Governing Knowledge: Comparison, KnowledgeBased Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education (World Yearbook of Education
2014) London, Routledge
For Jenny Ozga’s Lecture: ‘Knowledge Works: how data, expertise and inspection build the
European Education Policy Space’ the following texts may be useful:
Fenwick, T Mangez, E and Ozga, J (2014) Introduction-Governing Knowledge (pp 3-10) in
Fenwick, T, Mangez, E and Ozga, J (eds) Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based
Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education (World Yearbook of Education 2014)
London, Routledge
Williamson, B (2014) New Governing Experts in Education: self-learning software, policy labs and
transactional pedagogies’ in Fenwick, T, Mangez, E and Ozga, J (eds) Governing Knowledge:
Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education (World
Yearbook of Education 2014) London, Routledge
Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta • Faculty of Education
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 8831
www.utu.fi/edu

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