http://hdl.handle.net/10451/2899 2013-05-22T13:09:26Z 2013-05-22T13:09:26Z Carvalho, Luís Miguel http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7358 2012-12-06T15:48:07Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Fabrications and Travels of a Knowledge-Policy Instrument Authors: Carvalho, Luís Miguel Abstract: This article sets forth the main elements of the conceptual framework for the overall approach to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) taken in this special issue. PISA is here examined as a (knowledge for policy) regulatory instrument made by intertwined cognitive and social practices, and involving multidirectional flows of knowledge and policy elements. Additionally – and using materials from a study on the fabrication of PISA – the article gives closer attention to the process of gathering and coordinating the social worlds involved in the making of the instrument, to the plasticity of knowledge for policy and to the fictions – which the instrument carries – regarding education and its governing practices. As a whole, the article relates to the ubiquity of PISA – that is, its conspicuous albeit not similar presence in various geopolitical territories and discursive spaces. Fabricated under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, by bringing together individuals and organisations from various social spaces, its materials and texts generated often reach national and local policy and knowledge contexts, where different social groups have interests in them and are using them differently, though attached to PISA’s dicta on regulatory processes.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Barroso, João Carvalho, Luís Miguel http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7191 2012-11-08T16:51:57Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Apontamentos sobre os «novos modos de regulação» à luz de estudos sobre as relações entre conhecimento e política Authors: Barroso, João; Carvalho, Luís Miguel Abstract: No presente artigo abordamos o objecto deste número temático –“os novos sistemas de regulação”- recorrendo a resultados de estudos recentes efectuados por uma equipa portuguesa integrada num projecto de investigação desenvolvido em torno da seguinte interrogação geral: Qual o papel do conhecimento na construção e na regulação das políticas públicas? As pesquisas pretenderam ampliar a compreensão acerca da relação activa entre política e conhecimento num contexto social e cultural caracterizado pelo aumento do volume, da pluralidade e da circulação de saberes sobre os vários sectores das políticas públicas. Assim, o programa de investigação partiu dos seguintes pressupostos: as formas actuais do governo – na fabricação e na gestão das políticas – dependem, mais e mais, do recurso ao conhecimento especializado; tem vindo a aumentar a capacidade de diferentes actores sociais não só para mobilizarem conhecimento, mas também para proporem, oporem ou contraporem orientações e dispositivos de ordenação, coordenação e controlo de acção colectiva.; This article presents the results of recent studies carried out by a Portuguese team which was integrated to a research project concerning the following central (and general) question: What is the role of knowledge in the construction and regulation of public policies? The research intended to widen the understanding of the active relationship between politics and knowledge in a social and cultural context characterized by increasing volume, the plurality and circulation of knowledge on the various sectors of public policy. Thus, the program research from the following assumptions: current forms of government - in the elaboration and policy management – depend more and more, the use of specialized knowledge; has increased the ability of different social actors not only to mobilize knowledge, but also to propose, oppose or counteract guidelines and devices ordering, coordination and control of collective action.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Costa, Estela http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5668 2012-03-20T15:40:33Z 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The role of network-based knowledge in legitimating education policy options and the policy debate in Portugal Authors: Costa, Estela

2011-12-01T00:00:00Z Costa, Estela Pires, Ana Márcia http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5603 2012-03-15T13:53:04Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Role of the European Inspections in the European Educational Space - Echoes from Portugal Regarding the Assessment of Schools Authors: Costa, Estela; Pires, Ana Márcia Abstract: This paper is an approach to the construction of a European educational space (Nóvoa & Lawn, 2002), which is due to new modes of regulation in education. The policy under consideration is the institutional evaluation of schools carried out by the Portuguese General Inspectorate of Education. The aim is to explore how concepts and policies get “contaminated” by the European models (Barroso, 2003, 2006) and understanding how the regulation is outlined by the Inspectorates in some European countries, including Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. This paper owes to the phenomena associated to “travelling policies” (Alexiadou & Jones, 2001), to “policy transfer” (Dolowitz et al, 2000; Stone, 2001), and to “policy borrowing” (Halpin & Troyna, 1995; Steiner-Khamsi, 2004). The authors‟ perspective on the influences of the international movement of policies is free from simplistic and deterministic logics (Lingard & Rizvi, 2000), advocating that the internationalization of ideas come along with national reflections on how these ideas are materialized (Popkewitz, 1996). At the local/regional levels, the regulation of educational systems can be characterized as a growing „multi-regulation' - that comes from a growing number of sources and a variety of tools (assessment, monitoring and sharing best practices) - which mingle with modes that exist in a more traditional, bureaucratic regulation (Afonso & Costa, 2010). Thus, each country has its own overview about the structures, and effects of globalization, which do not occur simultaneously, nor in the same way in the different 'nation states' (Lingard & Rizvi, 2000).

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