The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education: The Fabrication of the Homo Academicus Euro

References.- 1. An Epistemic Governance of European Education.- Introduction.- Globalisation and Regimes of Knowledge.- Policy Networks and Travelling Politics of PISA.- Transnationalisation of Knowledge and Evidence-Based Research Policy.- The Mode 2 of Knowledge Production: a European Research Agenda.- The European University and the Knowledge Triangle.- The Foundations of the European Epistemic Governance.- Conclusion.- References.- 2. The Politics of Standards and Quality.- The Politics of Standards: Objects, Metrics and Expertise.- The Knowledge Economy and the European space of Statistics.- Governing by Numbers: New Political Technologies.- Standards, Quality and Tools in Higher Education.- From Standardization to Normalization: the Fabrication of a new Agency.- Conclusion.- 3. "What works?" or the Shaping of the European Politics of Evidence.- Introduction.- The Social Epistemology of the Politics of Evidence.- Policy Travelling from Health to Education.- Political Technologies of the Welfare State.- The Great Debate and Controversy in Education.- The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policy Making.- Conclusion.- References.- 4. The Multiple Worlds of Expertise.- Introduction.- Understanding the Politics of European Expertise.- Expertise and Policy Learning in Interactive Contexts.- Reflexive Learning and Story Telling.- Epistemic Community or Expertise in the Mode 2.- Social Interactions and Instrumental Politics.- Learning in the Shadow of Hierarchy.- Conclusion.- References.- 5. The New Spirit of Managerialism.- Introduction.- The New Spirit of Global Academic Capitalism.- The Criticism and Trials against the Academic Profession.- Trajectories and Trends of New Public Management in Higher Education.- The Trials of Managerialism and Professionalism.- The Knowledge-based University: a New Academic Regime?.- Conventions at Work for a new Homo Academicus.- Conclusion.- 6. The Making of a New Homo Academicus?.- Introduction.- The Weakening of the Academic World's Defences.- The Academic Institution's New Discourses of Truth.- New Spaces at the Boundaries of Academia.- Principles of Justification and Potentialities for Criticism.- Trials and Criticism of Managerialism.- Agencies of the Self and Academic Subjectivities.- Conclusion.- References.- Conclusion.