Defuturing educational utopias: Reference societies as projection screens for educational futures - German Education Server

Defuturing educational utopias: Reference societies as projection screens for educational futures

30.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr - 30.05.2024, 15:15 Uhr

EERA NETWORK 23 Policy Studies and Politics of Education
SEMINAR SERIES 2024
Online

Belgium
benedict.kurz@uni-bielefeld.de

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Expectations concerning the potential futures of education, society and the economy play an integral role in education policy-making. One way in which future expectations are being processed and communicated in societal discussions on education policy is in the form of projections onto reference societies: education systems elsewhere are being set up either as ‘utopias’ which serve as idealized models to be emulated or as ‘dystopias’ which serve as warning examples to be avoided. In the seminar, I would like to take a closer look at the character and functions of educational utopias and dystopias in societal discussions on education policy and discuss how studying educational utopias and dystopias projected onto reference societies can contribute to understanding processes of policy-making and global governance better