EduKnow member Íris Santos starts a 4-year fellowship from the Research Council of Finland at the Faculty of Education and Culture of Tampere University.
The study, titled Strategizing the SDGs – International organisations and the global governance of education (GloGoEd), analyses how intergovernmental organizations, namely the EU, OECD, and UNESCO use the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create strategic crisis narratives in education. It explores how these narratives justify these organizations’ roles, push certain education policies, bring new players into education development and defines the futures of education in specific ways.
This multidisciplinary research combines lenses from comparative and international education, organizational studies, and policy studies and applies qualitative content analysis, critical discourse analysis, and social network analysis to analyse documents, reports, press releases, and interviews with experts. The findings are expected to challenge assumptions about IGOs’ roles and influence, revealing the power dynamics and strategies used to shape global education governance.