Analyzing Education Reforms

Abstract

This chapter explains how the monograph takes inspiration in performativity philosophy and new materialism. The chapter further presents how the monograph explores the Bologna Process through a multisited policy ethnography. In addition, the chapter positions the monograph within research on the Bologna Process, globalization studies and the policy borrowing and lending approach. The positioning of the monograph within research on the Bologna Process centers on how the monograph is positioned in a critical approach that questions the ongoing reform processes as opposed to a reform- and policy-supportive approach. The positioning within globalization studies aims to develop a theoretical repertoire that relinquishes transnational reform processes from focusing exclusively on the phenomenon as a geometrical concern of size or a geographical concern of domain and supplement these categories with topological concerns such as connectivity and reach. Finally the positioning within the policy borrowing and lending approach centers on the importance of agency in the negotiations and translations of reform processes. This approach lends explanatory power to local enactments in the understanding of education reforms as such.