Analysing Knowledge Networks in Higher Education Policymaking

Uncovering the Power of Networks in the Finland-EU Context
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70444-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Higher Education

Looking at higher education policy actors connecting the Finnish and EU contexts, this volume explores at the power and influence of networks on decision-making and the utilising of knowledge within higher education policy. It is unique in providing a new understanding of how European higher education policies are shaped and implemented in day-to-day policymaking.

Building on existing literature and robust empirical work to focus on EU–Finland knowledge networks, the book develops a novel methodological approach that combines social network analysis, network ethnography, interviews, and observation data to capture how networks can significantly affect how higher education is governed. Understanding how policy is shaped through knowledge networks is crucial as the EU faces political challenges to its cohesion from internal and external pressures through authoritarian and populist ideologies. This book represents a critical starting point for considering how to theorise, understand, and question the interdependence of knowledge and policy.

The topical book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with education policy and politics, higher education studies, and international and comparative education more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kauko, Jaakko

Eeva, Katri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Knowledge, power, and networks in higher education policymaking 2. Studying knowledge networks in higher education policymaking 3. Inside the Knowledge Networks 4. National and European systems intertwined: Higher education policymaking in the EU context 5. Finland–EU higher education policy network: Structure, formation, and characteristics 6. Organisational Knowledge Network 7. Policymakers’ Norms on Knowledge: Credibility, Reliability, and Holism 8. Navigating higher education policymaking in the European Parliament 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Katri Eeva (DPhil) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Finland

Jaakko Kauko (PhD) is Professor of Education Policy, Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Finland