Translating European Higher Education Policies in the Light of Liberal Transformations. The Case of Polish Educational Entrepreneurs

• Main Author: Dakowska, Dorota
• Other Authors: Politique, Religion, Institutions et Sociétés : Mutations Européennes - Groupe de Sociologie Politique Européenne (PRISME-GSPE), Université Robert Schuman - Strasbourg III-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ECPR
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: Higher education; Bologna Process; Poland; Processus de Bologne; Pologne; enseignement supérieur; Entrepreneurs; [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01184862; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01184862/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01184862/file/Dakowska_Paper_ECPR_Reykjavik_2011_final.pdf

Section 51: Europe of Knowledge (Education, Higher Education and Research Policy)Panel 499 ‘The Europe of Knowledge and its Ignored Labourers: Translating European Education policies’ International audience The Europeanization of the Polish Higher Education (HE) system results from the inter-play of several factors: post-communist legacies, liberal transformations and the EU accession conditionality, which coincided with the launch of the Bologna Process (BP). While the systemic transformations implied a vast privatisation of the HE system, the BP defined the role of the sector as supporting a ‘knowledge-based economy’, an agenda promoted by the Lisbon strategy and international institutions in the field. Taking into account these variables is important to understand the institutional context and the perceptions and priorities of the political, administrative and scientific elites, whose representatives were involved in HE reforms.