Research projects
Ongoing
A survey of the disparate shapes algorithmic management takes in professional work and organizational life.
Past
A follow-up study on platforms, the teaching profession, and the algorithmic management of learning, courtesy of Italy's Ministry for Research.
A study on how digital learning platforms shape education as a global affair, courtesy of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action program.
Learning units for 2026
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Selected Publications
Vanden Broeck, P., & Stark, D. (2026). What knowledge claims: the teaching profession meets algorithmic management. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 24(7).
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2026.2741906
Stark, David & Pieter Vanden Broeck (2024). Principles of Algorithmic Management. Organization Theory, 5(2).
https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877241257213
Vanden Broeck, Pieter. (2023). The rats under the rug: The morphogenesis of education in a global context. In Mattei, P, et al. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Education and Globalization (pp. 385–403). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197570685.013.44
Vanden Broeck, Pieter & Mangez, Eric (2020). Ambiguous Coexistence and Social Transaction: on a Sociology of Opacity and Institutionalized Discretion. The American Sociologist, 51(2).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-020-09444-2
Vanden Broeck, Pieter (2020). Beyond school: Transnational differentiation and the shifting form of education in world society. Journal of Education Policy, 35(6).
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1652769
Working paper
Vanden Broeck, P. (2021).
Au-delà de l’école. La morphogenèse de l’éducation transnationale comme processus de différentiation dans une société-monde (Cahiers du Girsef 125).
Monography
Decuypere, M., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021).
Education in flux: Studies on time, forms and reform. Routledge.
Book chapter
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). The construction of worlds: On the function and fiction of quantified data in education policy. In Sotiria Grek, Christian Maroy, Antoni Verger (ed.),
World Yearbook of Education 2021: Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education (p. p. 3-20). Routledge.
Journal article
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education.
European Educational Research Journal,
20(6), 705-718.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211041867 (Original work published 2021)
Journal article
Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). Beyond school. Transnational differentiation and the shifting form of education in world society.
Journal of Education Policy,
35(6), 836-855.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1652769 (Original work published 2020)
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). The history of the future and the shifting forms of education.
Educational Philosophy and Theory,
52(6), 676-687.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1708329 (Original work published 2020)
Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2020). Ambiguous Coexistence and Social Transaction: on a Sociology of Opacity and Institutionalized Discretion.
The American Sociologist,
51(2), 172-187.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-020-09444-2 (Original work published 2020)
Decuypere, M., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). Time and educational (re-)forms—Inquiring the temporal dimension of education.
Educational Philosophy and Theory,
52(6), 602-612.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1716449 (Original work published 2020)
Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). The problem of the present: On simultaneity, synchronisation and transnational education projects.
Educational Philosophy and Theory,
52(6), 664-675.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1707662 (Original work published 2020)
Dissertation
Vanden Broeck, P. (2020).
Observing transnational education : steps towards a morphology of world society.
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P. (2019).
When Nation-states Speak Europese. On Consensus, Epistemic Subsidiarity And Double Binds Inside Europe’s Education Committee. European Conference on Educational Research, Hamburg.
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P. (2018).
Mirroring school. A systems theoretical outline of the differentiation of transnational education in Europe. European Conference on Educational Research, Bolzano.
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P. (2017).
The Problem of the present. Simultaneity and conflict potential in transnational education projects. European Conference on Educational Research, Copenhagen.
Book chapter
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2016). Au-delà des inégalités. Pour une autre perspective sociologique. In Pierre-Joseph Laurent (dir) (ed.),
Tolérances et radicalismes : que n’avons-nous pas compris ? Le terrorisme islamiste en Europe (p. p. 121-137). Couleur Livres.
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2016).
Learning as a norm. European Conference on Educational Research, Dublin.
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2015).
Between Semantic and Structure: Making Sense of Europe’s Governance of Education. European Conference on Educational Research, Budapest.
Conference paper
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2014).
“Speaking Truth to Power”? On the Challenges of Collaborative Research through European Funding. European Conference on Educational Research, Porto.
Book chapter
Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2014). Meeting expectations. On the challenges of collaborative research through European funding. In M. Lawn and R. Normand (ed.),
Shaping of European Education. Interdisciplinary Approach. Routledge. Taylor and Francis Group.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315796581
Conference paper
Vanden Broeck, P. (2013).
On Luhmann’s Political System. Lessons For and From Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields. ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux.
