Issue ? 41. December 2013

Educational Policy Models in Modern Europe

Graduate student, Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: olya.vlasova@gmail.com

There are three political actors developing and implementing the educational policy: the state, the market and academia. Depending on the role of each of these actors the educational policy models are defined. These models are: state-paternalistic (the main role belongs to the state), liberal (the main role belongs to the market), social-corporate (the main role belongs to academia).

Given the modern tendencies of globalization, the study of educational policy models changes in the light of new institutional environment of Bologna process. Classical educational policy models acquire new features in this context. Their effectiveness is more often evaluated according to their ability to adapt to the new reality of a pan-European educational policy model in the institutional environment of Bologna process.

The author concludes that social-corporate model is more adaptable than the other two models. Liberal model of educational policy already contains the majority of adaptivity principles because of a large amount of actors taking part in decision-making in this policy model. However, the analysis of various tendencies in social-corporate and state-paternalistic models shows that power extension of different actors is more prominent in the social-corporate model. This extension is determined by the practice of public and private partnership in financing of education and by the historically large role of civil organizations in education management.

Keywords

Educational policy, educational policy models, educational policy actors, public and private partnership, Bologna process.