Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

Berit Karseth is Professor in the Department of Education at University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests and publications lie in the fields of education policy, reforms, and curriculum studies. Kirsten Sivesind is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. Beyond her academic discipline of curriculum theory, her research focuses on comparative policy analysis and the history of educational ideas and reform. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her research interests focus on policy borrowing, comparative policy studies, public-private partnerships in education, and comparative methodology.

• Introduction: A Comparative Network Analysis of Knowledge Use in Nordic Education Policies.- What is in a Reference? Theoretically Understanding the Uses of Evidence in Education Policy.- Exploring the Architecture of Policy Knowledge: A Methodological Note.- Policy Borrowing and Evidence in Danish Education Policy Preparation. The Case of the Danish Public School Reform of 2013.- Evidence and Expert Power in Finnish Education Policy Making: The 2010‒2016 National Core Curriculum Reform.- The Irregular Formation of State Policy Documents in the Icelandic Field of Education 2013‒2017.- Structuring School Reform Policy With Evidence: The Inter-Mediational Role of Knowledge Sources and Arguments.- The Complexity of Context in Legitimating National School Reforms: The Case of Sweden.- 1.      Evidence-based Policymaking in Nordic Countries: Different Settings, Different Practices?.- How Much is Policy Advice Changed and Lost in Political Translation?.- The OECD and the Field of Knowledge Brokers in Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic Education Policy.- Regional Policy Spaces, Knowledge Networks and the “Nordic Other”.- On Evidence, Impact, and Layers in Education Policy Processes.- Evidence-Based Policy Making and Educational Reform in Nordic Europe: Main contributions of the POLNET Study.- Conclusion: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Evidence-Based Policy in Education.