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Inequality, Education, and Social Exclusion in the Welfare State: Pedagogical Responses from the Nordic Countries book cover

1st Edition

Inequality, Education, and Social Exclusion in the Welfare State Pedagogical Responses from the Nordic Countries

Edited By Kirsten Elisa Petersen, Niels Rosendal Jensen Copyright 2026
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people. Presenting a broad range of empirical and theoretical research conducted within a variety of... Read more

Introduction

Kirsten Elisa Petersen and Niels Rosendal Jensen

1 Educational inequality in a Nordic welfare state – “normal” conditions, anomalies or paradoxes?

Niels Rosendal Jensen

2 Play, pedagogy, autism spectrum disorder, and inequality in Danish early childhood education and care

Bjørg Kjær and Ida Danneskiold-Samsøe

3 Inequality in intervention – a social practice perspective on intervention in school

Anne Morin

4 Social (in)justice in classrooms: how can teaching reach out to all?

Lotte Hedegaard-Sørensen

5 Cross-professional inequality among teachers and pedagogues and how it affects inclusive classrooms in Denmark

Kari Kragh Blume Dahl

6 Everyday life of ethnic minority children and youth in the Danish welfare state – based on the pedagogical work of the leisure club

Kirsten Elisa Petersen

7 The significance of youth clubs in relation to young people’s capacity for action

Christoffer Schultz and Dirk Michel-Schertges

8 Gang exit and forensic psychiatry: counter-hegemonic alternatives in the Danish welfare state

Line Lerche Mørck, Muhammed Oruç Fatih Türkoglu and Martin Celosse-Andersen

9 Cripping the architecture of academic ableism: advancing a critical reconceptualisation of Universal Design in Danish higher education beyond accommodation and checklistification

Tine Fristrup

10 Constructing “the Other”: disabled families’ encounters with disablist violence in the Danish social welfare system

Katrine Risbank-Jensen

11 The social pedagogies of urban marginality

Christian Sandbjerg Hansen

12 Capitalism and the future of the welfare state: concluding analysis

Heinz Sünker and Jo Moran-Ellis

Biography

Kirsten Elisa Petersen, PhD is Associate Professor and Director of Research programme Social Exclusion and Pedagogy in the Welfare State (SEP), Aarhus University, Denmark.

Niels Rosendal Jensen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Educational Sociology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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