Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education

John Benedicto Krejsler is Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• Foreword: “’We Are All Equal’: Education and the Nordic struggles for equality and democracy”Foreword: “Interrogating the Nordic Dimension in Education as a Metaspace”INTRODUCTION:Chapter 1: “Metaspace – a conceptual tool to capture the Nordic”PART 1: Reflections upon the Nordic as a dimensionChapter 2: “The Nordic Dimension as a Metaspace for Educational Research”Chapter 3: “The Nordic interactive and comparative spaces within the arena of education”Chapter 4: “Between ‘Down-South’ and Norden: the case for Scottish Education”Chapter 5: “Educational Action Research for Being – Nordic vs Anglo-Saxon approaches”PART 2: Comparative cases in Nordic education policies and practiceChapter 6: “Policy Borrowing and Path Dependency in the Evolution of Extended Comprehensive Schooling in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”Chapter 7: “Governance and Goals in Early Childhood Education and Care: Does a Nordic welfare dimension prevail?”Chapter 8: “The paradox of documentation in early childhood special education in Finland and Norway: Debating national documentation policies within a Nordic framework”Chapter 9: “Commercialising the 'Nordic Model': Education export rhetoric in Finland and Sweden”Chapter 10: “Newly arrived students in Nordic education policies and practices”Chapter 11: “Second language and mother tongue education for immigrant children in Nordic educational policies: Search for a common Nordic dimension”Chapter 12: “Rural education and professional learning in relation to the Nordic model - progress and pitfalls?”DISCUSSION:Chapter 13: “The Nordic Dimension: A resource for education between lived realities and myth”