ABSTRACT

This paper explores educational trade fairs as part of the contemporary networked governance of public sector education. The focus is on the forms and functions of network governance in educational trade fairs and how different powers of private and public networking actors and ideas are played out, including the wider implications for education. Based on an event ethnographic case study of a Nordic educational technology fair, the study identifies three significant forms of how network governance powers are constituted: through consensual culture, blurred public-private actor roles, and market individualised addresses. Together this network governance has de-politicising effects that mask power imbalances and evoke democratic challenges for public sector education. The paper discusses how diffused market networking powers shape a national public education sector, and the forms of resistance and responsibilities within such governance. The merits of in-depth process-based event ethnography, which includes social media data, are raised and problematised.

摘要

本文探讨了教育交易会作为当代公共部门教育网络治理的一部分。重点是教育交易会中网络治理的形式和功能，以及如何发挥私人和公共网络参与者和想法的不同权力，包括对教育的更广泛影响。基于北欧教育技术博览会的事件民族志案例研究，该研究确定了网络治理权力如何构成的三种重要形式：通过共识文化、模糊的公私参与者角色和市场个性化地址。这种网络治理共同产生了去政治化的效果，掩盖了权力不平衡，并引发了公共部门教育的民主挑战。本文讨论了分散的市场网络权力如何塑造国家公共教育部门，以及这种治理中的阻力和责任形式。深入的基于过程的事件民族志（包括社交媒体数据）的优点被提出和质疑。