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Commercial Actors, Partnerships and Strategies | European Educational Research JournalThe focus of this Call for Papers is on the understanding of developments within the European space of education from the viewpoint of the role of commercial actors in the governing of education. Indeed, the European policy space in education has been viewed as an intergovernmental arena, as a transnational space of diverse interactions, and rarely as a commercial and financial space in education. Increasingly, commercial actors enter the European policy space and take up varied forms of roles in governing activities and processes. Testing producers, data advice companies and education publishers are examples among many others. As part of new public management strategies, and related reforms of administrative and governmental agencies, these developments have been taken shape in different forms and with different degrees of intensity across Europe during the last two decades. Yet the current crises in national finances is a problem for public systems of education and for government budgets generally, but it is a major opportunity for private finance and commercial activities. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.eera-ecer.de/eerj-eeras-journal/new-call-for-eerj-special-issue/Deadline: 31 mai 2013