Spaces of Crisis, spaces of conflict: European

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Spaces of Crisis, spaces of conflict: European education and its uneven development Ken Jones Goldsmiths, University of London Themes of the conference papers: Side 1 Analysis of aspects of policy orthodoxy and its effects. School performance indicators School choice and spatial segregation Students & worrying about the future Differentiation & inequality Effects of the crisis on schools Side 2 Inclusion and social justice. Justice through inspection Supporting minority belonging Building agency among immigrant mothers Inter-cultural education Diversity and integration in Higher Education Education and Roma and Sinti people A sense of tension Between critical analysis and constructive practice Between the direction of economic, social and educational policy and the values and commitments of educators and researchers. This duality is not only a way of describing a research agenda, but also a way of describing the conditions in which such an agenda is produced. A condition of being both in and against the powerful shaping currents of contemporary academia. Letters and petitions I’ve recently signed against The visa status of overseas students being checked against their attendance in seminars Arrest and suspension of students protesting university policies Selling off the student debt book Uploading of all files on university computers onto Microsoft cloud servers Discrepancy between the pay of lecturers, and that of university managements Outsourcing of cleaners’ work at University of London. The academic and the hydra A name for this many-headed monster? “The term neoliberalism … resonates as a convenient label for describing how and why so many things in Academia seem to suck.” (Banas 2014). Other names The new world order in education (Laval & Weber). A global policy-making project (Moutsios) A globally-structured educational agenda (Dale). Names that outline the main features of the project, and the institutions that have elaborated it. But … We need to discriminate between different aspects of this vast complex of concepts. My particular focus: the political shape of the new order Europe (mainly, the EU) In a long moment of crisis (post-2008) The relationships between states and global policy-making entities The consequences of these relationships for internal political relationships, within national states. Taking issue with Depictions of the ‘European Educational Space’ as a smooth space: “Capital tends towards a smooth space defined by … flexibility, continual modulation, and tendential equalization." (Hardt and Negri 2001: 327) The European Educational Space ‘(We may be facing) a permanent orientation in which a suprastate bureaucracy will