European student movements against “commodification of education” : international norm and counter-norm in new higher education policies

Geneviève Myriam Jacqueline Madeleine Désirée Genicot (1)

1 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales

The emergence of social movements defining themselves as opponents to the commodification and/or privatisation of education, including first and foremost students but also teachers and other actors, accounts for the changes occurring in the field of HE policy nowadays. In this paper we shall address the new forms of HE delivery from a double perspective, combining the study of policy takers' and policy makers' representations of how higher education should be delivered. We shall depict this binary normative structure and show the potency and dominance of policy makers' norm and the relative weakness of policy takers' one. We shall then try to explain this difference exploring two potential explanatory factors: -First, the hidden diversity of policy takers' representations; -Second, the diffusion mechanisms of the norms.

Mots clés: norm; commodification; education; social movements; transnational; students

Mots clés: norme; marchandisation; mouvements étudiants

Domaines: Science politique

Geneviève Myriam Jacqueline Madeleine Désirée Genicot. European student movements against “commodification of education” : international norm and counter-norm in new higher education policies. ECPR Joint Sessions - Workshop 11 « Reforming Education Policy: Internationalisation – Privatisation – Governance », May 2007, Helsinki, Finland. ⟨hal-00262471⟩