Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education

This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research.

Autorentext

John Benedicto Krejsler is Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Inhalt

Foreword: 'We Are All Equal': Education and the Nordic struggles for equality and democracy

Foreword: Interrogating the Nordic Dimension in Education as a Metaspace

INTRODUCTION:

Chapter 1: Metaspace a conceptual tool to capture the Nordic

PART 1: Reflections upon the Nordic as a dimension

Chapter 2: The Nordic Dimension as a Metaspace for Educational Research

Chapter 3: The Nordic interactive and comparative spaces within the arena of education

Chapter 4: ****Between 'Down-South' and Norden: the case for Scottish Education

Chapter 5: Educational Action Research for Being Nordic vs Anglo-Saxon approaches

PART 2: Comparative cases in Nordic education policies and practice

Chapter 6: Policy Borrowing and Path Dependency in the Evolution of Extended Comprehensive Schooling in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Chapter 7: Governance and Goals in Early Childhood Education and Care: Does a Nordic welfare dimension prevail?

Chapter 8: The paradox of documentation in early childhood special education in Finland and Norway: Debating national documentation policies within a Nordic framework

Chapter 9: Commercialising the 'Nordic Model': Education export rhetoric in Finland and Sweden

Chapter 10: Newly arrived students in Nordic education policies and practices

Chapter 11: Second language and mother tongue education for immigrant children in Nordic educational policies: Search for a common Nordic dimension

Chapter 12: Rural education and professional learning in relation to the Nordic model - progress and pitfalls?

DISCUSSION:

Chapter 13: The Nordic Dimension: A resource for education between lived realities and myth