Description

• Title:
  Embedded concepts: Comparative analysis of the meaning of education policies
• Creator:
  Dunajeva, Jekatyerina;
  Siarova, Hanna
• Description:
  The study demonstrates that the definition and meaning of education, and by extension of educational inequality, are embedded in countries’ historical, political and social environments, while also responding to exogenous changes and international trends. We comparatively discuss the experience of 4 countries (Norway, Finland, Lithuania and Hungary) in order to unpack the historical underpinnings of the way education is framed in policy documents. Building on that, we review the effects of neoliberal ideas with their universalist dogma that have affected policy making in all cases, and assess to what extent the meaning of education was decoupled from its historical framework. Our findings are relevant for understanding not only the process of policy change, but in particular how the meaning of concepts within educational policy change over time. We suggest that embedded concepts carry meaning that has evolved over time and became strongly entangled with the country’s history and culture, while prevailing ideologies (neoliberalism and in the case of Hungary that of neoconservatism) also generate considerable effects on education policies.;
  The study demonstrates that the definition and meaning of education, and by extension of educational inequality, are embedded in countries’ historical, political and social environments while responding to exogenous changes and international trends. We comparatively discuss the experience of 4 countries (Norway, Finland, Lithuania and Hungary) to unpack the historical underpinnings of how education is framed in policy documents. Building on that, we review the effects of neoliberal ideas with their universalist dogma that have affected policy making in all cases and assess to what extent the meaning of education was decoupled from its historical framework. Our findings are relevant for understanding not only the process of policy change but, in particular, how the meaning of concepts within educational policy changes over time. We suggest that embedded concepts carry meaning that has evolved over time and become strongly entangled with the country’s history and culture while prevailing ideologies (neoliberalism and, in the case of Hungary, neoconservatism) also generate considerable effects on education policies.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Hanna Siarova
• Date:
  2023.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuły naukowe
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Critical Review; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023); 15-32;
  Przegląd Krytyczny; Tom 5 Nr 2 (2023); 15-32;
  2657-8964
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pk/article/view/40990/34907
• Subject:
  embedded;
  education policy;
  neoliberalism;
  national context;
  education policy,
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pk/article/view/40990
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other