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Teaching Islamic Education in Finnish Schools: A Field of Negotiations
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Rissanen, Inkeri – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
The challenges of contemporary multicultural societies have resulted in changing aims for religious education and the necessity to adjust teacher education accordingly. The processes of negotiation related to the coexistence of different religious and cultural groups are intertwined in the Finnish curriculum for religious education. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture, Islam, Religious Education
Neo-Liberal Governance Leads Education and Educational Leadership Astray
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Moos, Lejf – Educational Governance Research, 2017
The neo-liberal move to depoliticise and deregulate governance of public sectors by transferring them to the technocratic and administrative marketplace management endangers the political and democratic processes at all levels. It influences education and educational leadership at their very core: the purpose of education is shifting from…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Governance, Politics of Education, Educational Administration
Discourses, Decisions, Designs: "Special" Education Policy-Making in New South Wales, Scotland, Finland and Malaysia
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Chong, Pei Wen; Graham, Linda J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
This comparative analysis investigates the influence of neo-liberal and inclusive discourses in "special" education policy-making in New South Wales, Scotland, Finland and Malaysia. The centrality of competition, selectivity and accountability in the discourses used in New South Wales and Malaysia suggests a system preference for…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Selective Admission