[GOETE-Newsletter] GOETE Newsletter 1-2011

[GOETE Coordination Team]

Dear reader,

We are glad to present you the second newsletter of the
GOETE research project. GOETE aims at analysing how educational
trajectories of young people are regulated as a result of complex
interactions in different European education systems. The study
"Governance of educational trajectories in Europe" (GOETE) investigates:
- how access of children and young people to different stages of
education is enabled or restricted,
- how coping with educational demands is being facilitated through
formal and informal support,
- how it is being negotiated between different actors
- and what kind of education actually is relevant for society at large
as well as subjectively for the learners.

This GOETE newsletter brings an update on the progress in our research,
and articulates some reflections on European and
national policy discussions as well as links to relevant policy
developments at EU level. If you want to subscribe to the GOETE
newsletter please click here.

With best regards from the

GOETE coordination team


  GOETE Newsletter 1-2011

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(1) GOETE Project News
(2) Reflection: EU Education Policy: Europe 2020:
Possible Implications for GOETE by Roger Dale, Bristol, United Kingdom
(3) Reflection: National Education Policy in Focus: Organisation of
Schooling in Germany: a discussion by Thorsten Bohl, Tuebingen, Germany
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(1) GOETE Project News
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The GOETE Project has completed its first year. In this first year much
effort has been put in the preparation of the comparative research. In
this first phase eight country reports and a glossary with
key concepts were produced. During this period, the GOETE consortium has
worked
on the design, construction, and implementation of research instruments
for the
empirical field work. The field work is expected to be completed by the
end of 2011.

Key events in this first year were the GOETE consortium meeting in
Ljubljana in July 2010, where representatives of all partner teams
attended, and the GOETE case study working group meeting in Amsterdam in
December 2010 where delegates from all participating GOETE partners
involved in the qualitative case studies attended. Further, the second
GOETE consortium meeting took place in Bologna in February 2011.

Read more:
<http://www.goete.eu/news/project-news/122-recent-activities-in-the-goete-project>


(2) Reflection: EU Education Policy: Europe 2020: Possible Implications
for GOETE by Roger, Dale, Bristol, United Kingdom
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The EU's new policy agenda "Europe 2020" and its more or less directly
associated initiatives, carry quite a large range of implications for
the GOETE project. Europe 2020 is the successor to the Lisbon Agenda, as
the guiding light for the EU's overal strategy. Its target is achieving
'smart, sustainable and inclusive growth', and one of its main goals is
to raise education levels to satisfy demands for new and higher skills.
Roger Dale intends to clarify with his reflection the aims and possible
implications of those initiatives.

Read more:
<http://www.goete.eu/news/project-news/126-reflection-eu-education-policy-europe-2020>


(3) Reflection: National Education Policy in Focus: Organisation of
Schooling in Germany: a discussion by Thorsten Bohl, Tuebingen, Germany
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International discussions about educational structures and the
organisation of schooling have a long tradition in Europe; in spite of
this, there is no operationally defined and cross-nationally valid
terminology available to describe the organisaton/structure of education
systems. In the GOETE countries the timing of the transition form
primary to secondary education varies substantially. Thorsten Bohl
discusses the topic of the school system in Germany in his reflection
and his interview.

Read more:
<http://www.goete.eu/news/project-news/125-national-education-policy-in-focus>

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