Sotiria Grek's talk will trace the development of the epistemic infrastructure of the education SDG in order to show the ways that the incremental build-up of the discourse, technical expertise and necessary – though always fragile– alliances facilitated a paradigmatic policy shift in the field of education: this is the move from the measurement of schooling to the measurement of learning. Through an analytical lens that examines the entanglement of the material, semiotic, as well as political and temporal/spatial elements of the infrastructure, her talk will show how the SDG4 as an epistemic infrastructure enabled a fundamentally new policy direction.
The colloquium will discuss the ways that quantification, despite –and often thanks to– its perceived failings, folded contested discourses, decision-making, politics and ideas into its processes. Sotiria Grek argues that the making of the SDG4 represents a paradigmatic policy shift; one that is not only to be traced in the move from schooling to the policy prioritisation of learning outcomes, but in the very production of global public policy as enabled and materialised through the SDGs as epistemic infrastructures.
Speaker
Sotiria Grek, Professor in European and Global Education Governance, University of Edinburgh
Discussant
Andrés Sandoval Hernandez, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Bath
Moderator
Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Professor, International Relations/Political Science and Director of the Global Governance Centre, the Graduate Institute
PLEASE NOTE: Access to indoor public events is limited to attendees with a Swiss or European COVID certificate. In addition, face masks must be worn to all in-person events at the Graduate Institute.
This event is co-sponsored by the Global Governance Centre and NORRAG, the Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training.
