Bedømmelsesudvalg:

• Professor Anja Heikkinen, Universitetet i Tampere
• Professor Palle Rasmussen, Aalborg Universitet
• Lektor Søren Ehlers, Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU), Aarhus Universitet (formand)

Vejledere:

• Professor Susan Wright
• Professor Philipp Grollmann, Universitetet i Bremen

Forsvaret foregår på engelsk.

(dørene lukkes præcist)

Afhandlingen udlånes på Danmarks Pædagogiske Bibliotek og ligger endvidere inden forsvaret til gennemsyn i  ph.d.-sekretariatet, Campus Emdrup (A114b).

Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik er vært ved en efterfølgende reception.

Abstract:

In 2002, the Copenhagen Process was initiated within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy in order to enhance co-operation within EU VET policy. The Process was embedded in a discourse of ‘evidence-based policy’ and founded on an uneasy mix of the ‘voluntary’ participation by Member States and fixed milestones for attaining common objectives along with introducing EU standards. The dissertation analyses the Process from a critical perspective based on the Australian policy researcher C.L. Bacchi’s methodology, ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ The dissertation argues that the Process has expanded VET policy to legitimately include actors at the EU level. Its new European institutional setting has been established through the OMC and VET is being reconfigured within a neoliberal LLL discourse in which education and training is to contribute to the competitiveness of the EU in a global economy.