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Karran, Terence; Beiter, Klaus; Mallinson, Lucy – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
The Scandinavian states have international reputations for promoting social democratic ideals, which have long been manifest in Nordic universities, e.g. legal protection for academic freedom and university studies free of charge. However, Nordic governments have made new h.e. laws, thereby changing university autonomy and management structures,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Democratic Values, Universities, College Faculty
Musial, Kazimierz – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
The article deals with the validation of the internationalization imperative in higher education institutions (HEIs) of the Nordic countries. I focus on both the goals and motives behind activities supporting internationalization, but also on the manner of their habitualization and institutionalization in the practice of academic administration…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Strategic Planning
?î?tea, Ioana – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
Previous Nordic migration and minority studies focus little on who produces research about migration and migrant education and in what ways. In contrast, by inquiring into how migrants and researchers themselves as knowing subjects are constituted through research and educational practices, this article seeks to destabilize established modes of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Educational Practices, Ethnography
Bjordal, Ingvil – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
Even though Norway is one of the Nordic countries that has been hesitant when it comes to implementing privatization policies, the influence of market-led reforms has facilitated an educational landscape where private companies increasingly serve public education. In this article, the interrelation between marketization and privatization is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
Ruutiainen, Ville; Alasuutari, Maarit; Karila, Kirsti – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
In accordance with the Nordic welfare model, the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has traditionally been based on public provision and the idea of universalism. However, over the last twenty years the ECEC system has undergone market-oriented reforms. As a result, the share of private for-profit ECEC provision has grown…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Löfgren, Maria – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
From once being synonymous with reading and writing, literacy, as a concept has expanded in the last three decades to today being associated with multiple meaning making forms and competences. Impactful, in this shift, has been the research orientation of New Literacy Studies. Besides academia, the literacy concept has also had a major influence…
Descriptors: Literacy, Epistemology, Educational Policy, Faculty Development
Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
Learning outcomes have become a central feature in European higher education and are intended to create a plethora of change concerning teaching, relevance, quality and transparency. However, there have been few studies on how learning outcomes have been introduced within disciplines. This article therefore studies the introduction of learning…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Higher Education
Rasmussen, Palle – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
Like other Nordic countries, Denmark is a mixed-economy welfare society, where capitalist production and market logics coexist with public policy having social cohesion and equality as important priorities. Educational and pedagogical research, which is a main knowledge base for policy and practice in schools and the education system, is also seen…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Interaction, Private Financial Support
Jokila, Suvi – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
International degree programmes (IDPs) act as focal instruments for the internationalization of higher education in many non-English--speaking countries serving a variety of national objectives, with the commercial objective becoming increasingly common. This study analyses how IDPs have developed in one Nordic country, Finland, from a marginal…
Descriptors: Commercialization, International Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Korsvold, Tora; Nygård, Mette – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
The main purpose of this article is to explore and develop a basic understanding of a new formulation of children's learning within ECEC policies in Norway. In the Nordic Countries, one question of importance is the shift in ECEC policy from a social-pedagogical approach and a holistic perspective on children's learning towards a heavier emphasis…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Political Attitudes, Government Publications
Holmén, Janne; Ringarp, Johanna – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In the past few centuries, an accelerating process of legalization and classification have moulded the diverse range of earlier institutions into a limited number of isomorphic organizational forms. Today, institutions of higher education, with their roots in the corporate forms of medieval universities, can also have the legal status of, for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Laws
Andreadakis, Zacharias E. – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In response to the persistent indeterminacy -- and the salient discontents -- surrounding the innovation-centred reporting in the global university-industry collaborations, this study seeks to investigate the reporting of innovation results in Norwegian centres for research-based innovation (SFIs). Based on a large amount of recent public-access…
Descriptors: Innovation, Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Universities
Buskqvist, Ulf; Johansson, Emelie; Hermansson, Carina – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
This article is an empirically grounded contribution to the understanding of how digitalization in education is interpreted and made into being by actors in everyday lives, in this case children and teachers in Swedish early childhood education. The focus is on interactions in an early childhood classroom upon and around a digital interactive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Preschool Children
Forsell, Joni; Mankki, Ville – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
A major admissions reform was carried out in Finnish higher education at the end of the last decade. This paper focuses on three main policy papers connected to the reform and examines the use and production of evidence therein. Drawing on bibliometric research and research on educational policy, we aim to provide insight into how to utilize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bibliometrics, Higher Education, College Admission
Jensen, Ruth; Ottesen, Emerita Eli – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
The purpose of this study is to contribute insights into strategic work in an educational reform context. Empirical data were collected from four cases in Norway, where the national educational authority recently initiated a renewal of the national curriculum for primary and secondary education. The theory of strategy as practice was the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Municipalities, Elementary Schools