Who Speaks? Power, Knowledge and the Professional Field - A Discourse Analytical Perspective on Educational Policy Consultancy and Advice
Who Speaks? Power, Knowledge and the Professional Field - A Discourse Analytical Perspective on Educational Policy Consultancy and Advice

Author(s): Susanne Maria Weber
Subject(s): Politics, Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: education; higher education; academia; politics; professional field; knowledge ; education policy;
Summary/Abstract: The relationship of academia, politics and professional fields in education is currently under discussion. Numerous works in education concerned with the contemporary condition of academia and universities address the problems of new political strategies in Higher Education and conditions changing university as institution and social space of knowledge production. Between bureaucratization and managerialism, the programatics of the “entrepreneurial university” creates new imperatives on academics and the academic field as such (Liesner 2006; Lorenz 2012; Peters forthcoming; Weber forthcoming). Within an overall trend of economization of and in academia, the relationship between academic knowledge, politics and society are becoming more critical. With political and societal expectations becoming more intense, notions of academic productivity shifting towards an outcome and financial output oriented perspective (Münch 2007, 2011), the academic field is transforming (Masschelein & Simons 2010; 2012). What are implications and possible risks for academic policy advice?

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