Education for Europe? Professionalization between effectiveness and autonomy

This paper assumes that there has been a discourse shift in the understanding of internationalization from an idealistic view on overcoming national narrow-mindedness to an economic view of effectiveness and self-improvement, which also affects the discourse on Europeanization and building Europe by...

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Published inEuropean educational research journal EERJ Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 784 - 792
Main Author Hummrich, Merle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2018
Subjects
Educational Change
Educational Cooperation
Educational Policy
Foreign Countries
Global Approach
Immigration
Inclusion
International Cooperation
International Education
Neoliberalism
Politics of Education
Professional Education
Professional Identity
Refugees
Europe
internationalization
economization
education
Europeanization
professionalization
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Summary:This paper assumes that there has been a discourse shift in the understanding of internationalization from an idealistic view on overcoming national narrow-mindedness to an economic view of effectiveness and self-improvement, which also affects the discourse on Europeanization and building Europe by education. Against this background, the question of which consequences this discourse shift has for education and professionalization, is asked. In the end, two contradictions are pointed out as boundaries of professionalizing European education: the first lies in the opposed understanding of Europe and education for Europe; and the second in the replacement of politics by education (understood not only as bottom up control of political aims by education but also as a specific idea of humanity).
ISSN:1474-9041
1474-9041
DOI:10.1177/1474904117705502