Disentangling policy convergence within the European Higher Education Area. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Veiga, Amélia; Magalhães, António; Amaral, Alberto
• Is Part Of: European educational research journal. Volume 18:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: European Higher Education Area -- political coordination -- political cultures -- policy convergence -- Bologna process; Education -- Research -- Europe -- Periodicals; 370.7209405
• DOI: 10.1177/1474904118804429
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-9041

Abstract

This paper addresses convergence as a political issue stemming from the political coordination of the European Higher Education Area. From the perspective of cultural theory, this issue relies on the fact that the influence of ways of life are not evenly influential in the political coordination of the European Higher Education Area. Convening the results of previous studies on the progress of Bologna, this paper underlines how goal displacement is challenging convergence in the ambit of the broader European Union political project. Additionally, the paper concludes that education within the European Higher Education Area is being configured by the prominence of the individualist and the fatalist ways of life.