Editors:
- Examines the conflict between the traditional School for all model and more recent neo-liberal policies
- Shows that neo-liberal technologies affect the Nordic model in different ways
- Describes, analyzes and discusses a Nordic vision in relation to international trends
Part of the book series: Policy Implications of Research in Education (PIRE, volume 1)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Country Cases
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Front Matter
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Thematic Chapters
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity. Â
Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the rise of neo-liberal policies that have been enacted by those who believe the School for All ideology does not produce the knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace. It examines the conflict between these two ideas and shows how neo-liberal technologies affect the Nordic model in different ways.
The authors also show how social technologies are being interpreted in different ways in actual school practices. This process of translating national regulations into internal sense builds on the values in the culture to which they are introduced.
In the end, this book reveals that a Nordic model can constitute a delicate balance between traditional values, institutionalized practices, and contemporary, neo-liberal forms of governance and policies. It may be argued from a new institutional perspective that the main structures of the Nordic educational model will sustain as long as the deeply rooted Nordic culture survives in the globalised society.
Keywords
- Aims of education policies
- Comprehensive school system
- Democratic reasons for schooling
- Education as a public good
- Education as an individual asset
- Education for all
- Egalitarian philosophy
- Equality of school opportunities
- Equity of Education
- Ideology of equality
- Inclusion
- Moral idea of democracy
- Neo-liberal education policy
- Nordic educational ideology
- Privatisation of education
- Reducing social class differences
- School for all
- School reform
- Traditional school structures
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Ulf Blossing
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Department of Education, Norwegian University of Science and Tech, Trondheim, Norway
Gunn Imsen
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Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
Lejf Moos
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nordic Education Model
Book Subtitle: 'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy
Editors: Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, Lejf Moos
Series Title: Policy Implications of Research in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7125-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7124-6Published: 30 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0084-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7125-3Published: 21 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2543-0289
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education