Justin Jw Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 816622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Jw Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin Jw |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Luxembourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6567-6189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond borrowed concepts
Increasingly, scientists move across geographical borders and affiliate with multiple organizations; almost all collaborate with other researchers. However, despite the massive expansion and relative opening of science, disciplinary boundary-crossing remains challenging. Although interdisciplinarity is often favored rhetorically, bibliometric research finds relatively few cases of meaningful, sustained dialogue between disciplines. To understand …
Deepening and broadening knowledge after the Pisa scientific event
The intensification of science as a social institution—known as scientization—is a hallmark of post-industrial society, characterized by deepening research within primary fields and expanding into new ones. While computational analyses of large bibliometric datasets reveal historical trends in the growth of science, their scale misses underlying dynamics. Conversely, qualitative accounts of specific discoveries provide context but fail to capture…
Special Neets
Institutional arrangements and social background characteristics significantly influence school-to-work transitions (STWT). This study examines cross-national differences in the risk of being not in education, employment, or training among young people with and without disabilities and investigates how institutional contexts influence the duration of ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) status among individuals with disabilities acro…
Pathways to Inclusion? Labor Market Entry Trajectories of Persons With Disabilities in Europe
Almost a fifth of the population in OECD countries report having a disability and the proportion of students classified as having special educational needs (SEN) has steadily increased over recent decades. While this group faces marginalization in schooling and employment everywhere, there are profound differences in disability‐based disadvantages across countries. However, comparative research on the labor market opportunities of persons with di…
Struggling for equal access and success
peer reviewed
Is More Science Really Less Science? The Scientization of Science, 1900–2020
Sixty years ago, Derek de Solla Price’s influential Little Science, Big Science first documented that from 1900 scientific publications doubled every 10–15 years and then predicted that limited resources would end rapid progress leading to an imminent “scientific doomsday”—a strikingly false prediction given that contemporary global mega-science annually yields 3.5 million mainline STEMM journal research papers. Nevertheless, the idea of a coming…
Institutionalizing inclusion in higher education
Investigating the institutionalization of inclusive higher education, the study focuses on how such policies and programs have evolved in Germany and Luxembourg. Embedded in transnational discourses on academic excellence, democracy, and inclusion, the latter bolstered by global ratification of human rights charters (UN-CRPD), the analysis draws on neo-institutionalist theory and the sociology of values to examine the on-going tension between uni…
Using large‐scale bibliometric data in higher education research
All fields of knowledge are challenged to adopt newer, more sophisticated methodologies to cope with growing complexity. Phenomena under study require further multidisciplinary and mixed methods collaborations to achieve expertise able to improve research strategies and practices. Furthermore, traditional methodological approaches face limits to their analytical reach. Here, we demonstrate opportunities from adopting newer, more sophisticated met…
Game of Brains
An evolving international research collaboration network
Co-authored research articles in the disciplinarily heterogeneous field of higher education have dramatically increased in this century. As in other fields, rising international co-authorships reflect evolving international collaboration networks. We examine higher education research over two decades, applying automated bibliometric topic identification and social network analysis of 9067 papers in 13 core higher education journals (1998–2018). R…
Evaluating universal student mobility
For decades, Luxembourg did without a national university. Before and after the University of Luxembourg’s founding (UL) (2003), tertiary education and the status of being a Luxembourgish student have been closely linked to international student mobility (ISM). This long-standing tradition was maintained in the new university via compulsory ISM: to bolster elite European networks and internationalization. Focusing on ISM from Luxembourg, based on…
Entwicklungslinien internationaler und komparativer Inklusionsforschung
Blurring the boundaries. University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education
Higher education (HE) scholarship often focuses on the so-called ‘entrepreneurial’ university as a consequence of new public management reforms. Simultaneously, the remarkable expansion of private HE is said to fragment, specialize, and diversify HE systems. Such diagnoses are misleading as they ignore wider environmental pressures and simultaneous changes in both public, non-profit and for-profit HE. We argue that putative diversity in HE operat…
Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism
Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers that disable. Myriad aspects of educational and disa…
Europeanizing Universities
Comparative education in an age of competition and collaboration
peer reviewed
University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities su…
Higher Education and the Exponential Rise of Science
How we collaborate and compete to find solutions to the problems and challenges of our age vastly impacts our individual and group success and well‐being. Interdependent, the institutions of education and science have dramatically expanded. Today, scientists in nearly all countries contribute to our shared stores of knowledge, with research universities the driving force behind unexpected pure exponential growth in scientific production. Competit…
Inklusive Bildung in der Schweiz – Zwischen globalen Normen und kantonalen Besonderheiten
This paper discusses the institutionalization of inclusive education in Switzerland’s different regions. Various concepts of Neo-Institutionalism were applied to analyse institutional change in Switzerland’s regionally-varying federal education systems. The key indicator is the school segregation rate of pupils in the 26 Kantone of Switzerland from 1999–2016. We find that inclusive education is differently understood and negotiated. In fact, no u…
Designing the (Most) Mobile University
How Employer Interests and Investments Shape Advanced Skill Formation
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Science Production in Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Charting significant growth in science production over the 20th century in four European Union member states, this neo-institutional analysis describes the development and current state of universities and research institutes that bolster Europe's position as a key region in global science. On-going internationalization and Europeanization of higher education and science has been accompanied by increasing competition as well as collaboration. Des…
Awareness-raising, legitimation or backlash? Effects of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on education systems in Germany
peer reviewed
An der Schnittstelle Ethnie und Behinderung benachteiligt
Subversive Status
What activities facilitate the development of disability studies (DS)? What barriers hinder its (multi)disciplinary flourishing? We address these questions focusing on contemporary DS in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—vibrant but challenging locales for DS. This multidisciplinary field engages intellectuals, activists, and stakeholders to subversively cross disciplinary, institutional, and political divides. Critical DS scholarship relies on c…
The Emergent European Model in Skill Formation
Proposing an alternative to the American model, intergovernmental reform initiatives in Europe have developed and promote a comprehensive European model of skill formation. What ideals, standards, and governance are proposed in this new pan-European model? This model responds to heightened global competition among “knowledge societies” as it challenges national systems to improve. The authors thus compare this emergent European model with the his…
Blurring the boundaries. University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education
Higher education (HE) scholarship often focuses on the so-called ‘entrepreneurial’ university as a consequence of new public management reforms. Simultaneously, the remarkable expansion of private HE is said to fragment, specialize, and diversify HE systems. Such diagnoses are misleading as they ignore wider environmental pressures and simultaneous changes in both public, non-profit and for-profit HE. We argue that putative diversity in HE operat…
Migration and ethnic group disproportionality in special education
Issues of educational equity and opportunity cannot be understood without regard to special education, as a key response to disabilities, disadvantages, and difficulties. Likewise, globalization cannot be understood without regard to cross‐border migration and minority group status in society. Illuminating the nexus of these, research into disproportionality in special education, defined as the over‐ or under‐representation of particular ethnic g…
The Shifting Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in France and Germany
In Europe, the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes in higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) are on the agenda, aiming to create a European educational area. Acknowledging important differences between countries, we compare the evolving relationship between HE and VET. We ask whether and how these two distinct organisational fields in France and Germany have changed in recent decades. Comparing institutional shifts, the ar…
Comparative education in an age of competition and collaboration
peer reviewed
Educational Systems and Rising Inequality
Educational systems considerably influence educational opportunities and the resulting social inequalities. Contrasting institutional regulations of both structures and contents, the authors present a typology of educational system types in Germany to analyze their effects on social inequality in eastern Germany after unification. After 1990, the comprehensive secondary school was replaced by three types of differentiated secondary schooling. In …
Legitimating school segregation. The special education profession and the discourse of learning disability in Germany
School segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. To explain why, we chart the development of the learning disability discourse and the special education profession, providing insights into the ongoing expansion of segregated special schooling. The discourse analysis of articles published between 1908 and 2004 in the special education professional association journal, Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik, uncovers the knowledge bas…
Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated
With educational expansion and rising standards, ever more students are being transferred into special education. These programs serve children and youth with ‘special educational needs’ (SEN), a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, physical, and intellectual disadvantages. An increasing proportion of students at risk of leaving secondary school without qualifications participate in special education. While most European countries…
Science Production in Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Charting significant growth in science production over the 20th century in four European Union member states, this neo-institutional analysis describes the development and current state of universities and research institutes that bolster Europe's position as a key region in global science. On-going internationalization and Europeanization of higher education and science has been accompanied by increasing competition as well as collaboration. Des…
University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities su…
Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), used in a variety of specific locations to represent purposely facilitated access, has become ubiquitous throughout the world within just a few decades. Found wherever people move in physical space and needing to navigate environmental barriers, this symbol is among the most widely recognized representations of disability. While it provides daily interactions with issues of accessibility and disability, i…
Change in Disability Classification
How do we make sense of considerable cultural differences and change in disability classification? How are disability's categorical boundaries being redrawn in special education to realign with shifting paradigms of normality? Based in particular on the case of provided services to students 'with special educational needs,' this analysis examines classification systems of student disability and their categorical boundaries in the United States an…
Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism
Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers that disable. Myriad aspects of educational and disa…
Designing the (Most) Mobile University
Awareness-raising, legitimation or backlash? Effects of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on education systems in Germany
peer reviewed
Pathways to Inclusion? Labor Market Entry Trajectories of Persons With Disabilities in Europe
Almost a fifth of the population in OECD countries report having a disability and the proportion of students classified as having special educational needs (SEN) has steadily increased over recent decades. While this group faces marginalization in schooling and employment everywhere, there are profound differences in disability‐based disadvantages across countries. However, comparative research on the labor market opportunities of persons with di…
Europeanizing Universities
Mark Priestley (Hg.)
Martina Röbbecke, Dagmar Simon, Martin Lengwiler und Clemens Kraetsch
Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated
With educational expansion and rising standards, ever more students are being transferred into special education. These programs serve children and youth with ‘special educational needs’ (SEN), a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, physical, and intellectual disadvantages. An increasing proportion of students at risk of leaving secondary school without qualifications participate in special education. While most European countries…
Behinderung in der Schule, behindert durch Schule? Die Institutionalisierung der ›schulischen Behinderung
Werner Georg (Hg.)
Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), used in a variety of specific locations to represent purposely facilitated access, has become ubiquitous throughout the world within just a few decades. Found wherever people move in physical space and needing to navigate environmental barriers, this symbol is among the most widely recognized representations of disability. While it provides daily interactions with issues of accessibility and disability, i…
Von schulischer Exklusion zur Inklusion? Eine neoinstitutionalistische Analyse sonderpädagogischer Fördersysteme in Deutschland und den USA
In Deutschland und den USA hat im letzten Jahrhundert eine massive Bildungsexpansion stattgefunden, auch im Bereich der sonderpädagogischen Förderung. Während immer mehr Kinder und Jugendliche eine sonderpädagogische Förderung erhalten, gibt es in beiden Ländern seit Jahrzehnten eine deutliche Überrepräsentanz von männlichen Schülern, ethnischen Minderheiten und sozial Benachteiligten in den vielfältigen sonderpädagogischen Maßnahmen. Trotz der ä…
Migration and ethnic group disproportionality in special education
Issues of educational equity and opportunity cannot be understood without regard to special education, as a key response to disabilities, disadvantages, and difficulties. Likewise, globalization cannot be understood without regard to cross‐border migration and minority group status in society. Illuminating the nexus of these, research into disproportionality in special education, defined as the over‐ or under‐representation of particular ethnic g…
Analyzing the nexus of higher education and vocational training in Europe
Given ongoing economic, political and social transformation, skill formation systems are under pressure to change. This is acknowledged in European declarations – Bologna for higher education and Copenhagen for vocational training – and various national reform processes. The omnipresent convergence hypothesis is that these international pressures will result in national skill formation systems becoming more similar. However, if these systems thro…
Change in Disability Classification
How do we make sense of considerable cultural differences and change in disability classification? How are disability's categorical boundaries being redrawn in special education to realign with shifting paradigms of normality? Based in particular on the case of provided services to students 'with special educational needs,' this analysis examines classification systems of student disability and their categorical boundaries in the United States an…
Why are higher education participation rates in Germany so low? Institutional barriers to higher education expansion
peer reviewed
Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems
peer reviewed
Legitimating school segregation. The special education profession and the discourse of learning disability in Germany
School segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. To explain why, we chart the development of the learning disability discourse and the special education profession, providing insights into the ongoing expansion of segregated special schooling. The discourse analysis of articles published between 1908 and 2004 in the special education professional association journal, Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik, uncovers the knowledge bas…
Sonderpädagogische Fördersysteme
Sonderpädagogische Förderung soll benachteiligte, beeinträchtigte und behinderte Schüler und Schülerinnen in ihrem Lernen und in ihrer sozialen Entwicklung unterstützen. Schüler und Schülerinnen werden in den Bereichen Lernen, Sehen, Hören, Sprache, körperliche und motorische Entwicklung, geistige Entwicklung sowie emotionale und soziale Entwicklung sonderpädagogisch gefördert. Um ihre individuellen Lernziele zu erreichen und ihre größtmögliche T…
Amerikanisierung oder Europäisierung der (Aus-)Bildung? Die Bologna- und Kopenhagen-Prozesse und das neue europäische Modell der Hochschul- und Berufsbildung
The Shifting Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in France and Germany
In Europe, the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes in higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) are on the agenda, aiming to create a European educational area. Acknowledging important differences between countries, we compare the evolving relationship between HE and VET. We ask whether and how these two distinct organisational fields in France and Germany have changed in recent decades. Comparing institutional shifts, the ar…
The Emergent European Model in Skill Formation
Proposing an alternative to the American model, intergovernmental reform initiatives in Europe have developed and promote a comprehensive European model of skill formation. What ideals, standards, and governance are proposed in this new pan-European model? This model responds to heightened global competition among “knowledge societies” as it challenges national systems to improve. The authors thus compare this emergent European model with the his…
Educational Systems and Rising Inequality
Educational systems considerably influence educational opportunities and the resulting social inequalities. Contrasting institutional regulations of both structures and contents, the authors present a typology of educational system types in Germany to analyze their effects on social inequality in eastern Germany after unification. After 1990, the comprehensive secondary school was replaced by three types of differentiated secondary schooling. In …
An der Schnittstelle Ethnie und Behinderung benachteiligt
Subversive Status
What activities facilitate the development of disability studies (DS)? What barriers hinder its (multi)disciplinary flourishing? We address these questions focusing on contemporary DS in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—vibrant but challenging locales for DS. This multidisciplinary field engages intellectuals, activists, and stakeholders to subversively cross disciplinary, institutional, and political divides. Critical DS scholarship relies on c…
Awareness-raising, legitimation or backlash? Effects of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on education systems in Germany
peer reviewed
How Employer Interests and Investments Shape Advanced Skill Formation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Science Production in Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Charting significant growth in science production over the 20th century in four European Union member states, this neo-institutional analysis describes the development and current state of universities and research institutes that bolster Europe's position as a key region in global science. On-going internationalization and Europeanization of higher education and science has been accompanied by increasing competition as well as collaboration. Des…
Higher Education and the Exponential Rise of Science
How we collaborate and compete to find solutions to the problems and challenges of our age vastly impacts our individual and group success and well‐being. Interdependent, the institutions of education and science have dramatically expanded. Today, scientists in nearly all countries contribute to our shared stores of knowledge, with research universities the driving force behind unexpected pure exponential growth in scientific production. Competit…
Inklusive Bildung in der Schweiz – Zwischen globalen Normen und kantonalen Besonderheiten
This paper discusses the institutionalization of inclusive education in Switzerland’s different regions. Various concepts of Neo-Institutionalism were applied to analyse institutional change in Switzerland’s regionally-varying federal education systems. The key indicator is the school segregation rate of pupils in the 26 Kantone of Switzerland from 1999–2016. We find that inclusive education is differently understood and negotiated. In fact, no u…
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Economics (19 works) · Higher education (17 works) · Economic growth (16 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (14 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Social science (9 works)