From Collectivism to Individualism? Education as Nation Building in a Scandinavian Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Telhaug, Alfred Oftedal; Medias, Odd Asbjorn; Aasen, Petter
Titel	From Collectivism to Individualism? Education as Nation Building in a Scandinavian Perspective
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 48 (2004) 2, S.141-158 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Local Government; War; Educational Policy; Educational Research; Educational Objectives; Political Influences; Elementary Education; Educational Trends; Governance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gemeindeverwaltung; Krieg; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Elementarunterricht; Bildungsentwicklung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung
Abstract	The theme of this article is education as nation building in the Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Starting with an overview of their Social Democrat parties' ascension of to near hegemony immediately following the Second World War, and these parties' impact on education, we go on to sketch the interplay between general political trends and educational policies up to the present day. We examine the goals of educational policies, the governance of the primary school system and the instruments of governance. Five levels of governance are taken into account: central government, regional and local government, schools and, finally, what happens in the classroom. Attention is given to trends that the Scandinavian countries shared in particular periods and to the divergence between them. We conclude that the main trend up to now is towards deregulation, decentralisation and individualisation. (Author).
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