The politics of post-WW II education reform
Based on the large-scale data collection I contributed to as part of the Schoolpol Project (https://schoolpol.web.ox.ac.uk/home), I am investigating the determinants of post-WW II education reform in Western democracies. This stream of work includes both historical and comparative approaches. In addition to trace the development of specific education reforms and processes, I am involved in constructing a novel database of educational manifestoes issued since 1945 as well as a systematic coding of the degree of organisation and mobilisation of educational stakeholders in post-WW II democracies.
Publications
Multidimensionality Matters: The Implications of Educational Hierarchy and Differentiation for Intergenerational Mobility in Europe
The effects on social mobility of stratifying pupils into different educational pathways have been debated for decades. We intervene in …
The Politics of Post-War Education Expansion and Differentiation
In the post-war period, the focus of governments in advanced democracies generally shifted from generalising basic education to …
Center-right Parties and Post-War Secondary Education
The massification of secondary schooling constitutes the key educational project of the first post-war period. However, the resulting …
Education as a Tool of Social Equality?
Do political parties approach education with different social policy aims? We argue that while parties have adopted a common language …
Nationalism and the Curriculum: Analytical and Methodological Considerations
Historically, nationalism and the curriculum are closely connected. The affirmation of the principle that each state should represent a …
Bildungspolitik
In German.
This chapter outlines the main characteristics of Swiss education politics and policy from both comparative and historical …
