Profile area Perspectives on Education Policy and Governance (PEPP) conducts research on how politics and policy are formulated and implemented within various types of educational professional practice.
PEPP is a research profile that examines how the education system is influenced by political decisions and policies—from preschool to higher education. The research focuses on how these decisions are formulated, interpreted, and enacted in educational practice, and what consequences they entail. The studies span international, national, and local levels and address issues such as governance, marketization, privatization, and the use of evaluation and assessment methods as tools of control. The research fields also include Europeanization, teacher education, student health, inclusion, and digitalization.
The research is grounded in a broad theoretical foundation, drawing on critical and institutional perspectives from disciplines such as education, political science, history, and sociology. The findings produced by PEPP are relevant to professionals in schools, parents, students, teacher education programs, policymakers, and leaders within the education sector. By combining national and international policy studies, the research contributes important knowledge about how education is shaped and governed in a changing society.
