Thinking Epistemic Governance in

EducationRomuald Normand

Research Unit SAGE (Societies, Actors and Government in Europe)University of Strasbourg

Current research on Higher education • Emerging power of global academic

capitalism (Dale, 1999, Dale & Robertson, 2009, Slaughter & Leslie, 1997))

• Marketization and privatization (Margison, 2004, 2006, 2007)

• Development of international rankings: (Hazelkorn, 2011)

• Bologna process and its consequences (Neave, 1994; Neave & Maasen, 2007)

• Network of actors (Think Tanks, International Organizations, agencies, states, companies, and consultancy groups) (Ball,2012)

Some blind Spots in European Research • The hypertrophy of market and

marketization : and the State? • The focus on actors and

discourses: what about instruments and tools of governance? (Desrosières, 2002; Gorur, 2011; Grek, 2012; Grek aet alii, 2009; Lascoumes & Le Gales, 2007; Normand, 2009, 2010, Ozga & Alii,2011)

• What means really Knowlege-Based Economy or Knowlege-Based Society ? (OECD, 1996; Lawn, 2011)

My Research Project

• Developing a reflection on the relationships between the state, instruments and knowledge• A new epistemic governance

in/of education ? • Analyzing the mid-term

effects on the academic profession and work• A new Homo Academicus ?

(1984)

Criticism against the academic World

• Bureaucracy and corporatism• Failure of higher

education systems • Academics enclosed in

their “ivory tower”,

Exogenous transformations

• The mode 2 of knowledge production (Gibbons & alii, 1994; Maassen ,Stensaker, 2011)

• Expertise & policy learning (Dunlop & Radaelli, 2013, Gornitzka, 2013; Lange & Alexiadou, 2010, Radaelli, 2008; Radaelli & Dunlop, 2013)

• Robust Knowledge (Weingart, 2008)

Endogenous transformations

• Discourses of Truth• Managerialism

(Blieklie,1998, Deem, 1998)• New intermediary

spaces

Mandarin Expert

Peer Entrepreneur

PerformanceTradition

Competition

Reputation

Work Conventions

Academic Trials or Hardships (Boltanski, Chiapello; 2005).

• Trials of Truth • Trials of Strength • Trials of Reality

Conclusion

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