Shaping of European education [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Martin Lawn and Romuald Normand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Martin Lawn and Romuald Normand -- 2. Education governance and transnational experts : Europe and its emerging relationship with the OECD / Sotiria Grek -- 3. The 'French pinnacle' of PISA : a boundary object between translations and irreversibility / Romuald Normand -- 4. Soft governance through PISA benchmarking : German reforms in secondary education / Tonia Bieber, Dennis Niemann and Kerstin Martens -- 5. Power as translation in the global governance of education / Nelli Piattoeva -- 6. Worlds of educational standards : complex interplays between sociologies of education / Paolo Landri -- 7. The understories of European education : the contemporary life of experts and professionals / Martin Lawn -- 8. Meeting expectations: on the challenges of collaborative research through European funding / Eric Mangez and Pieter Vanden Broeck -- 9. The (C)SI effect : school inspection as crime scene investigation / Joakim Lindgren and John Clarke -- 10. What kind of public sphere shapes the European Educational Research Space? / Marybel Perez Suarez -- 11. Higher-education governance reforms in Europe : concepts, measurement and empirical findings / Michael Dobbins and Christoph Knill -- 12. Transnational academic mobility from the perspective of gender inequality : researcher fl ows and knowledge construction in Europe / Regula Julia Leemann and Stefan Boes.