Quality assurance networks as a process of educational change in the Arab Gulf: A cultural political economy analysis

• In Event: Toward a critical cultural political economy of education: Between cases and theory

Abstract

In the context of the Arab world, analysis of education has to move away from cultural forms such as Western modernity and the tendency of reducing the cultural to policy discourse and move towards a framework that is underpinned ontologically and epistemologically allowing for an understanding of the casual powers of the cultural aspects of the ensemble and the particular conditions under which they are activated in relation to the political and economy of education. By examining a moment in the politics of education this research proposal considers if and how Arab civil society quality assurance networks impact on the regionalisation of higher education across the Arab Gulf. By analysing the education ensemble through the cultural and civilizational element of civil society, the aim is to identify if Arab quality assurance networks have a role in the regionalisation of higher education, with what power and with what impact.

Author

• Clare Walsh, University of Bristol