The Nordic Education Model 'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy

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 c...

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Other Authors: Blossing, Ulf (Editor), Imsen, Gunn (Editor), Moos, Lejf (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Policy Implications of Research in Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • 1. Nordic Schools in a Time of Change
  • PART 1: Country Cases
  • 2. A School for Every Child in Sweden
  • 3. The Norwegian School for All – Historical Emergence and Neoliberal Confrontation
  • 4. A School for Less than All in Denmark
  • 5. A School for All in Finland
  • 6. The Development of a School for All in Iceland: Equality, Threats and Political Conditions
  • PART 2: Thematic Chapters
  • 7. A Social Democratic Response to Market-led Education Policies: Concession or Rejection?
  • 8. Progressive Education and New Governance in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • 9. Assessing Children in the Nordic Countries - Framing, Diversity and Matters of Inclusion and Exclusion in a School for All
  • 10. One School – Different Worlds: Segregation on the Basis of Freedom of Choice
  • 11. Nordic Upper Secondary School:  Regular and Irregular Programmes – or Just One Irregular School for All?
  • 12. Dropout in a School for All: Individual or Systemic Solutions?- 13. Schools for All: A Nordic Model