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Eszter Neumann University of ELTE, Hungary

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.

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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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 IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  4. 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.] IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  5. 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) Co-construction: expertise and policy-making IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  6. The Round Tablefor 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 IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  7. 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 IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  8. Education science Pedagogic autonomy sociology System development account- ability economics Nurturing talents psychology IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  9. 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 variousidea streams, academic discourses IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  10. 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 IPA Grenoble 2010. Panel 33.

  11. Thank you for your attention! Eszter Neumann ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences Budapest, Hungary neumann.eszter@gmail.com

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