Externalisations in the Portuguese Parliament and Print Media: A complexity approach to education policymaking processes

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Externalisations in the Portuguese Parliament and Print Media: A complexity approach to education policymaking processes

Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series 2022-23.

About the seminar

Dr Santos presents an analysis of the complex dynamics emerging from the interactions between global, national, and local actors in policymaking processes. In her paper she addresses how references to international organisations (such as the OECD), their tools of assessment and guidance (such as PISA), and practices of other countries are used in discussions about education taking place the Portuguese parliament and in the media.

About the speaker

Iris Santos is a post-doctoral research fellow, at the Faculty of Administration and Business at Tampere University. Her research interests are diversified, focusing among others on the analysis of the use of evidence and knowledge in education policymaking, policy transfer, borrowing and lending, education development cooperation, sustainable development and more broadly speaking, she is interested in the dynamics of global-local networks of actors involved in education governance and policy. Santos has publications in a diversity of peer-reviewed research journals and contributed to the books Politics of Quality in Education: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China, and Russia (Routledge, 2018) and more recently, to the book titled Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).