Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

John Benedicto Krejsler is Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Foreword: “’We Are All Equal’: Education and the Nordic struggles for equality and democracy”
Foreword: “Interrogating the Nordic Dimension in Education as a Metaspace”
 
INTRODUCTION:
Chapter 1: “Metaspace – a conceptual tool to capture the Nordic”
 
PART 1: Reflections upon the Nordic as a dimension
 
Chapter 2: “The Nordic Dimension as a Metaspace for Educational Research”
Chapter 3: “The Nordic interactive and comparative spaces within the arena of education”
Chapter 4: “Between ‘Down-South’ and Norden: the case for Scottish Education”
Chapter 5: “Educational Action Research for Being – Nordic vs Anglo-Saxon approaches”
 
PART 2: Comparative cases in Nordic education policies and practice
 
Chapter 6: “Policy Borrowing and Path Dependency in the Evolution of Extended Comprehensive Schooling in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”
Chapter 7: “Governance and Goals in Early Childhood Education and Care: Does a Nordic welfare dimension prevail?”
Chapter 8: “The paradox of documentation in early childhood special education in Finland and Norway: Debating national documentation policies within a Nordic framework”
Chapter 9: “Commercialising the 'Nordic Model': Education export rhetoric in Finland and Sweden”
Chapter 10: “Newly arrived students in Nordic education policies and practices”
Chapter 11: “Second language and mother tongue education for immigrant children in Nordic educational policies: Search for a common Nordic dimension”
Chapter 12: “Rural education and professional learning in relation to the Nordic model - progress and pitfalls?”
 
DISCUSSION:
Chapter 13: “The Nordic Dimension: A resource for education between lived realities and myth”