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Title Finland's famous education system : unvarnished insights into Finnish schooling / Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko, Sonja Kosunen, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 466 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Politics, policy, teachers and edu-business -- Municipal governance of comprehensive education: The emergence of local universalisms -- Finland⁰́₉s ministry of education and culture in the light of its working groups -- A progressive force in Finnish schooling?: Finland⁰́₉s education union, OAJ and its influence on school-level education policy -- Finnish quality evaluation discourse: Swimming against the global tide? -- Ecological sustainability and steering of Finnish comprehensive schools -- Unmentioned challenges of Finnish teacher education: Decontextualisation, scientification and the rhetoric of the research-based agenda -- Teachers⁰́₉ expectations and expectations of teachers: Understanding teachers⁰́₉ societal role -- Businessing around comprehensive schooling -- Co-operation of edu-business and public schooling: Is the governance of education in Finland shifting from the public sector to networks?- Part 2: Equity, inequality, and the challenges of diversity, language and inclusion -- ⁰́₋Three bedrooms and a nice school⁰́₊ ⁰́₄ Residential choices, school choices and vicious circles of segregation in the education landscape of Finnish cities -- Pupil selection and enrolment in comprehensive schools in urban Finland -- Everyday life in schools in disadvantaged areas -- Divided cities ⁰́₄ Divided schools? School segregation and the role of needs-based resource allocation in Finland -- The significance of socioeconomic background for the educational dispositions and aspirations of Finnish school leavers -- Controversies and challenges in the history of gender discourses in education in Finland -- Rainbow paradise? Sexualities and gender diversity in Finnish schools -- Racism in Finnish school textbooks: Developments and discussions -- Saami language online education outside the Saami homeland ⁰́₄ New pathways to social justice -- Education of pupils with migrant backgrounds: A systemic failure in the Finnish system? -- Negotiated, given and self-made paths: Immigrant origin girls and post-compulsory educational transition in Finland -- Language education for everyone? Busting access myths -- Rethinking Finland⁰́₉s official bilingualism in education -- Religions and worldviews as ⁰́₋the problem⁰́₊ in Finnish schools -- Inclusion in Finland: Myths and realities -- Exclusively included? Finland⁰́₉s inclusion success story and hidden dual system of mainstream and special needs education -- Student disengagement in Finnish comprehensive schooling -- Part 3: Epilogue -- The Foundations of Critical Studies in Education in Finland
Summary This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling. This book draws on the fields of sociology of education, education policy, urban studies, and policy sociology. It makes use of a range of research methodologies including ethnography, case study and discourse analysis, and references the work of relevant theorists, including Bourdieu and Foucault. This book aims to provide a critical, updated and astute analysis of the strengths and challenges of the Finnish education system.
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 7, 2023)
Subject Education -- Finland
Education and state -- Finland
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban policy.
urban sociology.
Education
Education and state
Política educativa.
Sociologia de l'educació.
Formació del professorat.
Finland
Finlàndia.
Genre/Form Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
Author Thrupp, Martin, 1964- editor.
Seppänen, Piia, editor.
Kauko, Jaakko, editor.
Kosunen, Sonja, editor.
ISBN 9789811982415
9811982414