Education policy

Giudici, Anja and Emmenegger, Patrick 2023. Education policy. Emmenegger, Patrick, Fossati, Flavia, Häusermann, Silja, Papadopoulos, Yannis and Vatter, Adrian, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 604-622. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192871787.013.31)

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Abstract

Education policy is often regarded as the last bastion of Swiss federalism. However, in the last few decades, this policy field has been profoundly reshaped on the backdrop of intra- and international competition and mobility as well as the rise of knowledge-based economies and educational testing. This chapter characterizes Swiss education politics and policy on three key dimensions—its comparative centralization, standardization, and stratification. Building on this analytical description, this chapter shows that the different orientations of vocational and general education—with the former being oriented primarily towards upskilling, and the latter being perceived more in redistributive and enculturation terms—have produced distinctive cleavages and coalitions, thus leading to different developments in terms of governance, institutional reconfigurations, and future challenges.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LF Individual institutions (Europe)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780191968013
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 September 2024
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2024 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171744

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