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Kushnir, I 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-7208,
2023.
‘It is more than just education. It’s also a peace policy’: (re)imagining the mission of the European Higher Education Area in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
European Educational Research Journal.
ISSN 1474-9041
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Abstract
Following the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, scholarship has not yet addressed the role of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in this context. This paper asks: What is the political role of the EHEA as an institution and the instrumentalisation of its higher education (HE) cooperation initiatives in the context of the invasion? To investigate this, the paper thematically analyses interviews with representatives from key HE stakeholders in three EHEA members – Germany, France and Italy, as well as key recent international communications related to the EHEA’s response to the war. The thematic analysis revealed two overarching themes leading us to consider that: (1) the EHEA has been regaining its lost significance through shaping and disseminating its response as an institution to the invasion of Ukraine; and (2) HE cooperation in the EHEA in the context of this war has been acquiring a new meaning. These themes lead us to conclude that the war has prompted the EHEA to re-establish its purpose, following the ebbing interest in standardising HE structures. Most importantly, the EHEA has begun to emerge as a platform for political cooperation beyond HE for the promotion of peace in the European region.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | European Educational Research Journal |
| Creators: | Kushnir, I. |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Date: | 21 September 2023 |
| ISSN: | 1474-9041 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1177/14749041231200927 DOI 1807599 Other |
| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Institute of Education |
| Record created by: | Laura Ward |
| Date Added: | 25 Sep 2023 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2023 10:51 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49803 |
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