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Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model: Comparative and Historical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model Comparative and Historical Perspectives

Edited By Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue Copyright 2022
260 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, recruitment patterns, teachers’ social status, values and knowledge. It considers how Nordic teachers´... Read more

Introduction: Of myths and models: the unity and diversity of Nordic educational cultures

Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue

1.Nordic elementary schoolteachers: organic intellectuals, agents of a colonising state, emancipatory groups, or all of these?

Jesper Eckhardt Larsen

2. Preaching and teaching: the religious origins of Nordic teacher cultures

Fredrik W. Thue

3. Peasant amongst peasants: the role of the Scandinavian teacher as farmer in the nineteenth century

Christian Larsen

4. The Nordic model from afar: Chinese scholarly projections of Nordic education and teachers

Barbara Schulte

5. Finnish primary teacher training and Nordic comparisons in Committee Reports from the 1860s to the 1960s

Marjo Nieminen

6. Becoming universities? Academisation and the integration of Finnish and Swedish teacher education institutions in the system of higher education

Janne Holmén and Johanna Ringarp

7. Approaches to pedagogy in Finnish and Danish pre-service teacher education: historical paths and contemporary divergence

Beatrice Cucco and Jesper Eckhardt Larsen

8. Teacher education reform in Sweden, Germany, and England

Lindsey Waine and Susanne Wiborg

9. Teacher unions, teacher cultures, and teacher education in Sweden and Finland 1970–2020

Björn Furuhagen and Janne Holmén

10. Elitist tradition and democratic reform: Norwegian and Danish upper-secondary teacher cultures in transition, 1960–1994

Lars Erik Larsen and Fredrik W. Thue

11. Discourses of teacher professionalism in Norway

Sølvi Mausethagen

12. Teachers’ autonomy in assessment between perceived fairness and institutional framings: Sweden and Germany in comparison

Kathleen Falkenberg and Johanna Ringarp

13. Integration, fragmentation and complexity: governing the teaching profession and the Nordic model

Wieland Wermke, Tine S. Prøitz

Conclusion- Schoolteachers and the Nordic model

Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue

Biography

Jesper Eckhardt Larsen is Associate Professor in the History of Education at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Barbara Schulte is Professor in Comparative and International Education at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Fredrik W. Thue is Professor in the History and Theory of Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

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