The Understories of European Education: The Contemporary Life of Experts and Professionals

Abstract

The European Space for Education exists in different forms; for example, as policy documents, regulations, projects, Ministers Meetings. In the last ten years or fifteen years, there has been an important growth in the work of experts and professionals, constructing the infrastructure of this Space. Their associations, created at a European level, are enmeshed and embedded in this work of construction. This is undramatic but essential work, and they have steadily engaged with the governance of Europe. But they live life in the shade, without summit meetings or media headlines, but with an essential place in the ecology of new European education.