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ERIC Number: EJ660263
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
An Inevitable Progress? Educational Restructuring in Finland, Iceland, and Sweden at the Turn of the Millennium.
Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Lindblad, Sverker; Simola, Hannu
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v46 n3 p325-39 Sep 2002
Discusses how current changes in the system of reasoning about education in Finland, Iceland, and Sweden are characterized by culturally woven patterns in high marketization strategies are introduced as technically effective devices both for educating the best and to increase inclusion. The system of reason presupposes that the neo-liberalist restructuring changes are inevitable global phenomena and represent progress when compared with old arrangements. (SLD)
Descriptors: Culture, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, International Education, Marketing, School Restructuring
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Finland; Iceland; Sweden
Note: Special issue titled "Changing Education Governance in Nordic Welfare States: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden as Cases of an International Restructuring Movement."