The research area Perspectives on Education Policy and Politics (PEPP) contributes high quality and interdisciplinary research aimed at a variety of stakeholders and focuses on the formulation, production and enactment of policy and their consequences for teachers, students, parents, and policy makers.
The members are engaged in research that seeks to understand policy contexts at different levels (national, regional and organisational), as well as international frameworks of policy making and their connections to national practices. We analyse policy from a critical perspective, and examine modes of governance, values and policy ideas in education contexts. We engage with a range of methodologies, and theoretically we draw on perspectives from educational studies, political science, history, and sociology.
Our scientific contributions are centered around the following themes:
