Soft power and hard measures: large-scale assessment, citizenship and the European Union.

Autor/inn/en	Rutkowski, David; Engel, Laura C.
Titel	Soft power and hard measures: large-scale assessment, citizenship and the European Union.
Quelle	In: European educational research journal, 9 (2010) 3, S. 381-395Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2010.9.3.381
Schlagwörter	Evaluation; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Kompetenzerwerb; Bildungspolitik; Internationale Organisation; Evaluation; Bildungspolitik; Leistungsmessung; Europäische Union; Staatsbürgerkunde; Leistungsmessung; Internationale Organisation; Europäische Union
Abstract	This article explores the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) with particular emphasis on the European Union's (EU's) involvement in the regional portion. Using the ICCS, the EU actively combines hard measures with soft power, allowing the EU to define and steer cross-national rankings of values of EU citizenship. The authors contend that once hard measures of citizenship are produced, they become an efficient 'truth' that can be legitimated through evaluation and ranking. As measures are represented in comparative tables, the conversation shifts to 'Why are we ranked here?' rather than 'How/why were we ranked?' This shift requires critical discussion, one which is often difficult, given the politics of agreement and funding patterns underlying assessment. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2011/4