OECD in the eyes of Finnish education policymakers.

Autor/in	Niukko, Sanna
Titel	OECD in the eyes of Finnish education policymakers.
Quelle	Aus: Kallo, Johanna (Hrsg.): Supranational regimes and national education policies. Encountering challenge. Turku: Finnish Educational Research Association (2006) S. 299-333Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Kasvatusalan tutkimuksia. 24
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISSN	1458-1094
ISBN	952-5401-23-5
Schlagwörter	Beeinflussung; Bildungspolitik; Geschichte (Histor); Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Kooperation; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung); Bildungsministerium; Finnland
Abstract	[This article] deepens the analysis of the impact of the OECD on Finnish education policies. [The] study is based on extensive interviews with 18 high-level Finnish education policy-makers and key civil servants from the Ministry of Education and the National Board of Education. In her article, [the author] seeks to answer what implications and features the interviewees associate with Finnish membership of the OECD now and in the past, how the interviewees define the OECD as an educational actor, and further, whether the interviewees think that the OECD has had an effect on Finnish education policy. [The author finds that the views of the interviewed experts are divided. Some interviewees clearly think that the OECD had the greatest influence in the 1970s and 1980s, whereas the EU has now taken its place as the most influential actor in the shaping of European education policy. The other group, however, argues that the OECD has always been more important to Finland than the EU, and this is still the case today. [The author] notes that the majority of the interviewees describe the OECD using predominantly neutral terms. The OECD is clearly seen as an instrument and an analytic expert institution that provides background information for national policy-making. However, only a small minority completely deny the role of the OECD as an independent policy actor. Most of the answers indicate, as [the author] writes, that the OECD clearly exerts an influence on national policies, for example through the recommendations of national policy reviews, or more generally by introducing and emphasising certain themes. Its influence is thought to be channelled about all in indirect ways. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2008/2