1st Edition
The Nordic Education Model in Context Historical Developments and Current Renegotiations
Introduction: The Nordic Education Model. Trajectories, Configurations, Challenges
Daniel Tröhler
Part 1: Trajectories
Chapter 1: Mapping the Nation: Fabricating Citizens From Patriotism Towards Nordicism?
Brit-Marie Hovland
Chapter 2: The Danish Nation-State as Crafted in Textbook Narratives: From Democracy Toward a Nordic Model
Nicole Gotling
Chapter 3: Constructions of the In-/Educable: A Nordic Outlook on Changing Legal and Educational Statuses of Pupils with Disabilities
Gøril Moljord & Hilde Bondevik
Chapter 4: Schoolteachers, Child-Centered Education, and the Nordic Education Model: Danish and Norwegian Experiences, 1920–1935
Afshan Bibi
Chapter 5: Integrating, Segregating, Emancipating? The General and the Specific in Nordic Sámi Education in the Early Twentieth Century and Today
Otso Kortekangas
Part 2: Configurations
Chapter 6: The Nordic Model and the Educational Welfare State in a European Light: Social Problem Solving and Secular-Religious Ambitions when Modernizing Sweden and France
Mette Buchardt
Chapter 7: Rooms of Togetherness—Nordic Ideals of Knowledge in Education
Inga Bostad & Mariann Solberg
Chapter 8: Understanding as Liberation: The Nordic Education Model as a Way to Becoming Independent Citizens?
Anders Lindseth
Chapter 9: Trajectories of New Math in the Nordic Countries
Bjørn Smestad & Hilde Opsal
Chapter 10: The Educationalization of the Swedish Welfare State and the Expectations of School Teachers
Åsa Melander
Chapter 11: Expertise-seeking Arrangements in Education Policymaking: A Comparison between Norway and the United States
Chanwoong Baek
Part 3: Challenges
Chapter 12: Trajectories of Assessment and Certification in the North. Grading and Testing Policy in Norwegian and Swedish Basic Education
Sverre Tveit & Christian Lundahl
Chapter 13: From Knowledge to Skills and Competence: Epistemic Reconfiguration in Nordic Basic Education, 1980–2020
Magnus Hultén, Harald Jarning, Jens Erik Kristensen
Chapter 14: Gender, Equality, and Education—Are We About to Abandon Our Nordic Ideals?
Elin Rødahl Lie
Chapter 15: From Active Members of the School Community to Active Knowledge Acquirers. The Rhetoric on Students in Norwegian Curricula Across Time
Bernadette Hörmann & Berit Karseth
Chapter 16: International Legitimations of the Swedish School Reform 2015/2018
Andreas Nordin
Chapter 17: Surveying Policy Discourses Across Time and Space: Internationalization of Knowledge Providers and Nordic Narratives
Kirsten Sivesind, Dijana Tiplic, & Lars G. Johnsen
Biography
Daniel Tröhler is Professor of Education at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Inga Bostad is Professor of Philosophy of Education and former Pro-Rector at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, where is she head of the research project "The Nordic Education Model". She is also Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway.
Bernadette Hörmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Sverre Tveit is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo and is Associate Professor at the University of Agder, Norway.
