Politics, Higher and Adult Education, and the Power of Research

Abstrakt

The chapter focuses on the relationship between higher and adult education policy and social science research. It demonstrates the important ways higher education has been shaped by neoliberal policies.

It presents variants of the policy-science relationship and, in this context, comments on the ways critical research can influence education policy and politics.

Klíčová slova

• public policy
• education policy, research
• higher and adult education
• neoliberalism