Unibo Team Leader: Prof.ssa Morena Cuconato, Dip. di Scienze dell’Educazione «Giovanni Maria Bertin»
The GOETE project will analyze the role of school in re-conceptualizing education in terms of lifelong learning by combining a life course and a governance perspective. In European knowledge societies adequacy of education means a balance of individual, social and economic aspects. This is operationalized by exploring how educational institutions conceptualize and organize individual educational trajectories. The study covers the period from transition into lower secondary education to transition into upper secondary education/vocational education and training, i.e. the age group between 10 and 16 years. Comparative analysis will focus on the regulation of access to education, of support measures for coping with education and of securing the relevance of education for social integration and the labour market. In 8 EU countries the mixed-method study involves surveys with students, parents and school principals; comparison of teacher training; case studies of local school spaces; discourse analysis; expert interviews with policy makers and stakeholders. On a scientific level, the comparison of the regulation of educational trajectories involves re-conceptualizing the social aspects of learning and education under conditions of late modern knowledge societies. It reflects the need for formal education to be embedded in social life worlds, enabled by social support, and complemented by informal and non-formal learning. On a practice and policy level, it will provide information about alternative means of providing children and young people with access to education; of supporting them in coping with education and ensuring the relevance of education by communication and cooperation between school, labour market, other educational actors, students and parents. The communication of findings will include a dialogic model of educational policy planning at local level, training workshops with teachers, youth workers and policy makers, and a European policy seminar
Coordinator
UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT (Germany)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Scienze dell’Educazione «Giovanni Maria Bertin»
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof.ssa Morena Cuconato
(in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Sociologia "F. Ardigò")
INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL INNOVATION AND SOCIAL RESEARCH TUEBINGEN (Germany)
UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN (Germany)
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJIANA (Slovenia)
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (The Netherlands)
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI (Finland)
UNIVERSITY OF TURKU (Finland)
QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST (UK)
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (UK)
SCHOOL OF HIGHER STUDIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH, RENNES (France)
UNIVERSITY OF ‘RENNES 2’ (France)
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI URBINO (Italy)
WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (Poland)
Start date 01/01/2010
End date 31/12/2012
Duration 36 months
Project cost 3.524.964,40 Euro
Project Funding 2.699.810 Euro
Subprogramme Area Education in a European knowledge society
Contract type Small or medium-scale focused research project