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Peer reviewedAhonen, Sirkka – Educational Review, 2002
Educational reform in Finland shifted from 1960s welfare state ideology, which viewed education as an instrument of social justice and equal opportunity, to the 1980s neoliberal ideology of competition and individualism, to the economic depression of the early 1990s, which resulted in a new definition of educational equality. (Contains 20…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role
