Educational policies with varying dimensions: Romania, European Union and International Organizations. What are the prospects for the society of tomorrow?

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TitreEducational policies with varying dimensions: Romania, European Union and International Organizations. What are the prospects for the society of tomorrow?
Type de publicationJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuteursRusitoru M-V, Pacheco RGP
JournalREVISTA DE INVESTIGACIONES POLITICAS Y SOCIOLOGICAS
Volume16
Pagination99-116
Type of ArticleArticle
ISSN1577-239X
Mots-clésdiscourse analysis, Education policies, educational prospective, lifelong learning
Résumé

Our society is characterized by more and more significant changes which present a particularly strong impact on education. In such a historical context, making predictions about the future of education is an extremely delicate mission for policy-makers, researchers, parents and learners. In the current paper, we formulated the hypothesis that prospects in education are influenced by economic, social, geopolitical and pedagogical factors. In order to explore our working hypothesis, we carried out more than sixty semi-structured interviews with national, European, international officials of international organizations, European Union and Romanian educational organizations. Political discourse analysis highlights that the future of education worldwide is mainly interdependent on financial funding for education, ``ageing'' challenges, real outputs after a training period, as well as the ``Lifelong Leaning'' approach.