Jean Gordon

Jean Gordon's picture

User Profile

France

Jean Gordon is the Director of the European Institute of Education and Social Policy (Paris) (www.eiesp.org) which she joined in 1989.
She has wide experience in the comparison & analysis of education policies & systems, and in contributing to lifelong learning opportunities & personal development through improving access to learning and its recognition, individualising pathways and increasing transparency of learning and qualifications in Europe. She has undertaken many Europe-wide studies, including for the EU Commission, and in 2008-2009 she was one of the authors of a 27 country study for DG Education: Key Competences in Europe: Opening doors for lifelong learners across the school curriculum and teacher education. Jean has undertaken projects in the EU Member States, the candidate countries as well as in the Western Balkans, the MEDA countries and also in Central Asia.
She is Joint Editor of the European Journal of Education for which she has designed and/or coordinated issues on the futures of learning, education and well-being, intercultural dialogue, equal opportunities, internationalisation of education, qualifications frameworks, access to lifelong learning, etc. She coordinates the European Operations for Universal Education Foundation of which EIESP is an operational partner and the Secretariat for the Consortium of foundations, ‘Learning for Well-being’.

Interests/Expertise: 

Learning for well-being

key competences - policy and strategy development 

Futures of education 

vocational education and training - systems development, access, quality, recognition, etc.

qualifications & transparency

monitoring and evaluation - projects, programmes, systems

journal editing 

Recent research/consultancy: 

Romania – CALIPT: Revision of methodologies, instruments and procedures for an increased quality of initial VET (2009 - 2012). Evaluation and review of policy and strategy for VET in Romania over the last 15 years. The general objective is to review the policies and strategies for IVET against their coherence with other national strategies and European priorities for VET (intended policy and actual policy level) and their implementation at different levels: national/central, regional, local/school (operational level). The outcomes should provide inputs for future policies and measures in terms of ensuring policy coherence and consensus among the key actors at national level, providing guidelines for strategic implementation and action plans, considering the impact of practice at regional and local/school level. The project is led by the National Centre for TVET Development of the Ministry of Education in Romania. The partners are: SC GEA Strategy/ Consulting S.A (RO), Danish Technological Institute (DK) and the EIESP (FR)

Gordon J., Arjomand G. & O’Toole L., The well-being of children and youth - a stocktaking report on data sets and indicators, Work-in-Progress Report 2010, drafted for the ‘Learning for Well-being’ Consortium of Foundations in Europe, 2009-2010. http://www.eiesp.org/site/pages/view/69-plan-of-the-consortium.html

J. Gordon, G. Halasz, M. Krawczyk, T. Leney, A. Michel, D. Pepper, E. Putkiewicz, J. Wisniewski, Key Competences in Europe: Opening doors for lifelong learners across the school curriculum and teacher education, (Warsaw, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research)tudy undertaken for the Directorate General Education and Culture of the European Commission, (2009). (http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-information/moreinformation139_en.htm)

Tom Leney, Jean Gordon and Stephen Adam, The Shift to Learning Outcomes; Policies and Practices in Europe, Cedefop, 2008 

For other information see: www.eiesp.org 

Recognitions, positions, memberships: 

Joint Editor, European Journal of Education 

Selected publications: 

Additional Information

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS SINCE 1999

Janet Looney & Jean Gordon, Guest editors, European Journal of Education; vol. 46, no. 4, Dec. 2011,  On becoming a teacher: a lifelong process

 

Gordon J., Arjomand G. & O’Toole L., The well-being of children and youth - a stocktaking report on data sets and indicators, Work-in-Progress Report 2010, drafted for the ‘Learning for Well-being’ Consortium of Foundations in Europe, 2009-2010. http://www.eiesp.org/site/pages/view/69-plan-of-the-consortium.html

 

J. Gordon, G. Halasz, M. Krawczyk, T. Leney, A. Michel, D. Pepper, E. Putkiewicz, J. Wisniewski, Key Competences in Europe: Opening doors for lifelong learners across the school curriculum and teacher education, (Warsaw, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research)tudy undertaken for the Directorate General Education and Culture of the European Commission, (2009)

(http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-information/moreinformation139_en.htm)

 

Jean Gordon, Guest editor for the European Journal of Education; vol. 44, no. 4, Dec. 2009,  Networks in Education: benefits and issues in Europe.

 

Tom Leney, Jean Gordon and Stephen Adam, The Shift to Learning Outcomes; Policies and Practices in Europe, Cedefop, 2008 http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/Information_resources/Bookshop/publication_details.asp?pub_id=525

 

Marwan Awartani, Cheryl Vince Whitman & Jean Gordon, “Developing Instruments to Capture Young People’s Perceptions of How the School as a Learning Environment Affects their Well-Being”, European Journal of Education, vol. 43, no. 1, 2008

 

Marwan Awartani, Cheryl Vince Whitman & Jean Gordon, The Voice of Children, Student Well-Being and the School Environment. Middle East Pilot Preliminary Survey Results: Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon, Universal Education Foundation, Fall 2007 (www.uef-eba.org)

 

Johanna Lasonen and Jean Gordon, “Improving the attractiveness and image of VET”, Modernising vocational education and training Fourth report on vocational education and training research in Europe: background report Volume 3, CEDEFOP (ed.), Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008 (Cedefop Reference series) http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/Projects_Networks/ResearchLab/forthcoming.asp

 

Danièle Colardyn and Jean Gordon, Guest editors for the European Journal of Education, vol. 40 no. 3, September 2005: Lifelong learning for all: Lisbon strategies in the global context.

 

Ex-post Evaluation of the Curriculum Development Projects funded in the Framework of SOCRATES 1997-2001, by Erica Sahlin, Jean Gordon, Isabelle Libert, Laurence Emin, Astrid Berg, Martin Persson, for the European Commission, February 2005.  http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/education_culture/evalreports/education/2005/erasmus-cd/erasCDxprep_en.pdf

 

Evaluation of the Outcomes of the European Training Foundation Peer Reviews, By Jean Gordon and Craig Thomson, for the EUROPEAN TRAINING FOUNDATION, January 2005. http://www.etf.eu.int/WebSite.nsf/Pages/23954A5ED4FAA441C1256FE40059BB0D/$FILE/ESEE_PR_EVAL_05_EN.pdf 

 

Guest editor for the European Journal of Education, vol. 39 no. 1 March 2004  Trends in Lifelong Learning: Improving Opportunities for Adult Learning; policies for tackling barriers and encouraging skills development, No. 1/ 2004 

 

Key Indicators on vocational education and training in the New Independent States and Mongolia, 1995-1999, EIESP for the European Training Foundation, Turin, 2003.

 

"New Challenges for Vocational Education", Jean Gordon in Lifelong Learning: which ways forward? Danielle Colardyn (ed.), College of Europe and Kenniscentrum EVC, Utrecht 2002.

 

"The Internationalisation of Education – Schools in Europe and the SOCRATES Programme" in The European Journal of Education, Mobility and Cooperation in Education – Recent Experiences in Europe, vol. 36, no. 4 December 2001.

 

SOCRATES 2000 Evaluation Study, edited by Ulrich Teichler, Jean Gordon and Friedhelm Maiworm for the European Commission. Presented by the Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung, Universität GH Kassel in cooperation with the European Institute of Education and Social Policy and the Gesellschaft für Empirische Studien, November 2000.

 

Guest editor for the European Journal of Education, vol. 34, number 4, December 1999; Equal opportunities in education and training: managing common problems in different contexts

 

 

 


History

Member for
12 years 23 weeks
Blog
View recent blog entries

Click the image to visit site

14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

Click the image to visit site

X