Publications

Authors:

Milana, Marcella; Klatt, Gosia; Tronca, Luigi

Title:

Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groups

Year:

2020

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFELONG EDUCATION

ISSN of journal:

0260-1370

N° Volume:

39

Number or Folder:

1

Page numbers:

31-47

Keyword:

Adult education; European governance; European Commission; expert groups; Social Network Analysis

Short description of contents:

The influence of the European Commission (EC) expert groups on policy coordination within the European Union has received a growing interest among researchers, who have assessed their role in policy-making processes, their participation patterns, their transparency, and their knowledge-generating process. This article interrogates the structural configuration of the networks, and the relationships between the actors, formed through the Commission expert groups on adult learning, and under the Education and Training 2020 work programme, respectively, by means of a Social Network Analysis. So attention is paid on the mutual-constitutivness of a social network and its members, or the potential power within a network, and of a network, to influence member states’ domestic adaptation of communitarian policies. Our analysis points at noticeable differences between the connectivity of each of the Commission expert groups, and the groups emerging from the two forms of network governance these produce in the adult learning, and education and training domains. A key result, however, is that two actors (i.e. Flemish Department for Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland) stand out as fully embedded in both forms of network governance, and represent highly connected ‘informal’ brokers across policy domains.

Web page:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02601370.2020.1729881

Product ID:

113193

Handle IRIS:

11562/1012674

Last Modified:

January 25, 2025

Bibliographic citation:

Milana, Marcella; Klatt, Gosia; Tronca, Luigi, Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groups «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFELONG EDUCATION» , vol. 39 , n. 1 , 2020 , pp. 31-47

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