The workshop discusses current developments
impacting education in late modern societies. It has become common-sense to
post-industrial, knowledge-based societies to emphasize the role and importance
of education and knowledge in maintaining welfare and wealth standards,
harnessing innovation, and securing economic growth. This emphasis on the
functions of education for society, and principally, for the economy has led to
substantial transformations in the education sector. These transformations are
interconnected, yet we can distinguish three of the most significant changes
(1) by focusing on the role education plays in imagining and shaping the
future, (2) by attending to the shifts in the governance of education in
achieving the goals set, and (3) by analyzing the modes and consequences of
dominant strategies to farm education, both by states and non-state actors.
- Teacher
Piia Åminne