Patterns of Actorship in Legitimation of Educational Changes: The Role of Transnational and Local Knowledge

Autor/in	Wirthová, Jitka
Titel	Patterns of Actorship in Legitimation of Educational Changes: The Role of Transnational and Local Knowledge
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 21 (2022) 4, S.658-679 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wirthová, Jitka)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/1474904121993251
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Global Approach; Foreign Countries; Politics of Education; Debate; Educational Policy; Czech Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Globales Denken; Ausland; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Debating; Streitgespräch; Politics of education; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	This paper examines how different meanings of knowledge (transnational, comparative, statistical, local, and personal) relationally stabilise the agential position for the legitimation of educational reform across state and non-state actors. Analysing the materiality and systems of reason of proposals to reform education in the pre-election debates in the Czech Republic, the focus is placed on different patterns of legitimate and legitimating actorship, assembled from global and local relations. Through an ecological conceptualisation the research identifies the problematisation and decomposition of actorship into contradictory assemblages of both traditional actors (teachers and politicians) and relatively new ones (NGOs). The relationship of the civil sector and the state structures allowed the emergence of new non-state, non-professional actors (NGOs) who aggregate their expertise from transnational data and legitimate both their position as experts and the particular educational change. This has consequences for non-experts as politicians and teachers. The transnational and European context penetrated into the Czech educational sphere not through an elite class of system actors but through the representatives of NGOs. Rhetorically saving education from degradation, NGOs engage in spreading the transnational data and externalise the legitimation of educational reform and thus become the bearers (although agentially limited) of the European space. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01