eszter neumann university of elte, hungary
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Policy paradigms and political decision-making *** the case of the Round Table for Education and Child Opportunities. Merging scenes and circulation of knowledge 5th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference Grenoble, June, 23-25, 2010. Panel 33. Eszter Neumann University of ELTE, Hungary. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Policy paradigms and political decision-making
***the case of the Round Table for
Education and Child Opportunities
Eszter Neumann
University of ELTE, Hungary
Merging scenes and circulation of knowledge5th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference
Grenoble, June, 23-25, 2010. Panel 33.
IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.
Expert networks in education policy…
„ [Social scientists] look at this with the attitude of the bug collector. They pin up a bug, now you look at the health and the education sector, they examine it, and they say »Yuck!« That’s all, then they leave. (…) But pedagogy stays.”
(pedagogic expert, 70)
IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.
Structure of the Presentation
1. What do we mean by merging scenes?
2. Cognitive patterns and policy paradigm Disciplinary discourses performed in the political
sphere Case study: the Round Table for Education and
Child Opportunities
3. Competing scientific paradigms and political choices
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Merging Scenes Public action (Commaille 2004)
multisited approach
→ cognitive dimension: Locations of problematizations
A conceptual tool Dramaturgical approach: staging alternative policy
paradigms
Classic question: how do scientific understandings (of education) interact with political rationalities? [Foucault 1991, Rose 1999, Weingart 1999, Maasen&Weingart 2005, etc.]
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Co-construction: expertise and policy-making
1990’s Major Public Actions
Content regulation (curricular policies)
Expertise Value oriented,
„ideological” Normative positions
Knowledge centres (R&D) State-maintained research
institutes
Mid 2000’s- Major Public Actions
Steering, quality management Educational integration Competence development
Expertise disciplinary paradigms, truth
claims - Cognitive flows International streams
Knowledge centres (R&D) Financial cut-backs development agencies (EU
funding)
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The Round Table for Education and Child Opportunities (2007-2008) 2006- „vacuum situation” in the
field of expertise
governmental programme
of rationalizing public services State Reform Committee, PM Core team of economists
Methods: 1 year long non-participant observation; Interviews with key actors, discourse analysis
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Policy paradigm (Hall, 1990)
Deliberative scene: performative character cognitive streams, competing scientific discourses Enacted/negotiated/ignored discourses
What is the content of the propositions? Expert coalition: economists, sociologists, ‘educational
scientists’, a neuro-psychologist how different disciplinary approaches merged in the
political sphere?
Policy paradigm (2002-2010): Social inclusion Policy-core of belief systems (Sabatier&Jenkins-Smith 1999):
improvement of the education of the disadvantaged discourse of abilities and skills development
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Early Intervention
compen-sation
socialintegration
Skillsassessment
Economiccompeti-tiveness
System development
Pedagogic autonomy
Nurturing talents
account- ability
Education science
psychology
economics
sociology
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Interactions between scenes: when politics comes back Multiple scenes, plurality of idea streams
Scenes as resources – multiple postions Scientific credibility – legitimization of propositions Policy knowledge entrepreneurism
Government’s political support gradually decreased…
“New Knowledge” programme (03/2008) Assembles fragments of the recommendations …and various idea streams, academic discourses
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Will social sciences stay…? Political programmes shaped by disciplinary paradigms
2002-2010. lack of strategic centre → equally influential paradigms from political perspective
Heteroglossia; grand narrative: economic competitiveness, the accountability of public services
Echange of arguments among disciplines performed as political;
Yet hardly compatible and commensurable in scientific terms
2010. elections: scientific paradigms objects of political negotiation
Shift in the grand narrative:
Social inclusion → Early childhood development
Thank you for your attention!
Eszter NeumannELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences
Budapest, Hungary