State, Schooling and Identity

Kari Kantasalmi is Head of Research Affairs, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki. With a cross disciplinary research profile, focusing on boundary issues in organization of education and schooling, he is currently a vice-president for Europe in Research Committee on sociology of education in the International Sociological Association (ISA). Gunilla Holm is Professor of Education in the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Helsinki and director of the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Education ‘Justice through Education’. Her research interests are focused on photography as a data collection method as well as on issues in education related to educational justice, race, ethnicity, class, and gender.

• 1.Introducing complexity of educational diversificationKari Kantasalmi and Gunilla Holm2.Education and nationalism in Scotland: Nationalism as a governing sourceJenny Ozga3.Language, national identity and school: The role of the Catalan-language immersion program in contemporary Catalan nationalismMontserrat Clua i Fainé4.Geographical divergences of educational credentials in the modern nation-state: A case-study of Belgium 1961-2011Raf Vanderstraeten and Frederik Van der Gucht5.Nationalism as a positive value?Tetyana Koskmanova and Tetyana Ravchyna6.Saami educational and knowledge claims in school systems of the Nordic countriesIrja Seurujärvi-Kari and Kari Kantasalami7.Differentiation and diversification in compulsory education: A conceptual analysisLauri Ojalehto, Mira Kalalahti, Sonja Kosunen and Janne Varjo<8.Cultural capital, equality and diversifying educationAnna-Kaisha Berisha, Risto Rinne, Tero Järvinen and Heikki Kinnari9.Discourses on gender and achievement in lower secondary educationElisabet Öhrn, Lisa Asp-Onsjö and Ann-Sofie Holm10.Justice in education in the Nordic countries: A discussion of perspectives and possibilitiesDennis Beach11.Not all students are equally equal: Normality as Finnishness Ina Juva and Gunilla Holm