Call for Participation—Curriculum Policies: Making Education Respond to Society and the Labor Market

Please note that the venue for this event has changed from Georgia to Croatia.

The Network of Education Policy Centers will hold its second summer school in Croatia in collaboration with that country's International Institute for Education, Policy Planning and Management and supported by OSI's Education Support Program.

The school will consist of a 2.5-day core course led by a team of lecturers, followed by four elective module courses on specific aspects of curriculum policies: curriculum, migration and social cohesion; the economics of curriculum; the politics of civics curriculum; and outcome-oriented education and principles of curricular design.

The core course will cover:

• Curriculum and political ideology
• Curriculum and Knowledge 
• Links between curriculum and economy 
• Who decides what to teach? (Participation and decision making)
• Curriculum raising the "big issues" (does curriculum articulate society’s problems?)

Instructors for the school will be: Stephen P. Heyneman, Maria Golubeva, Doyle Stevick, Iris Marusić, and Mladen Domazet.

The school has been designed for ambitious policy makers and implementers at the local, national and regional level from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the former Soviet Union, Turkey and Mongolia, as well as graduate students in education policy from around the globe.

Please visit www.edupolicy.net for additional information and an on-line application form.