ERIC Number: EJ1016908
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Publication Date: 2012
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Qualifications Frameworks and Their Conflicting Social Imaginaries of Globalisation
Louise Sarauw, Laura
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, v5 n3 p22-38 Win 2012
Critics often see the European Bologna Process as a univocal standardisation of higher education. By exploring how different qualifications frameworks project different social imaginaries of globalisation, this article takes a different stance. The overarching qualifications framework of the Bologna Process rests on a socially constituted and contested concept of globalisation as a change towards a more diverse and unforeseeable world, which calls for the development of flexible, lifelong learners with a broad knowledge base and strong democratic competencies. Although this social imaginary is widely known, I argue that it is also highly contested. For example, the Danish qualifications framework of 2003 projects a social imaginary of globalisation as a change towards a smaller and more predictable world, which enables a novel and more efficient alignment of the curriculum towards specific professional needs, and where the development of a broad knowledge base and democratic competencies are no longer prioritised.
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Qualifications, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Lifelong Learning, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Role of Education, Alignment (Education), Constructivism (Learning)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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