TY - BOOK AU - Wikander,Lennart AU - Gustafsson,Christina AU - Riis,Ulla TI - Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: Polities, Politics, Performances T2 - Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices Series SN - 9789462090521 AV - L1-991 PY - 2012/// CY - Rotterdam PB - BRILL KW - Education-Research-Congresses KW - Philosophy, Modern-Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: Polities, Politics, Performances -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section I. Comparative Education - The Role of Knowledge and Educational Research -- 1. Robustly Researching the Relevant: A Note on Creation Myths in Comparative Education -- 2. Comparative Education in Late Modernity: Tensions between Accelerating the Disenchantment of the World and Opening Pedagogical Spaces of Possibility -- 3. Existential Education and the Quest for a New Humanism:How to Create Disturbances and Deeper Thinking in Schools and Universities? -- 4. Education and the Welfare Society: The Swedish Case -- Section II. Globalisation and New Trends -- 5. Pedagogical and Epistemological Paradigms in the University in the Ara of Globalisation -- 6. The Decline of Europe and its Impact -- 7. Governance Matters? Changing Systems of School Governance in Europe: Empirical Effects and Challenges for School Development -- 8. Global Evaluation and Quality Assurance Policy Meet Local Education Context: A Swedish Case Narrative -- Section III: New Knowledge - Identities - Policies -- 9. Managerialism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is there Space for Creativity? -- 10. The Assessment of Competencies Acquired by Returnees from Individual Student Exchanges: European Key Competencies and the Italian School -- 11. Comparing Identities in Dissimilar Spaces and Times: Hybridity, Border Crossing, Indeterminacies, Pluralism -- 12. Negotiating Identities in School Settings: "Latinos" in Madrid and Buenos Aires -- About the Authors N2 - Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: Polities, Politics, Performances presents some outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Uppsala, in summer 2010. Bringing together studies related to knowledge and educational policies, the volume deals with the role of knowledge, globalisation and new trends what have an effect of identities and policies UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3034756 ER -