Comparative education in the North: Diversity in unity
Författare
Redaktör
- Suvi Jokila
- Johanna Kallo
- Risto Rinne
Summary, in English
So summarized Xan Smiley his view of the Nordic countries in the Economist in 1999 . In February 2013 the Nordic Countries are described in the same context as “the next supermodel”, a new model of Nordic capitalism and are heralded in a special report courtesy of the Economist for their pragmatism, which has led to “generous welfare state[s] that [do] not cost the earth”
"Unless the points are pushed too hard the two traditions could locally be placed in Denmark (N.F.S. Grundtvig) and Sweden (the construction of the “new Sweden”) respectively. Due to differences like these and others, comparison is absolutely possible among the Nordic countries and history shows that we have been good at learning from each other. The fact remains, however, that difference is importance, raising the question: has time come to put more weight on the North in its entirety as a unit of comparison?"
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
31-56
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Comparing Times and Spaces : Historical, theoretical and methodological approaches to comparative education
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Finsih Educational Research Association. Research in Educational Sciences 69
Ämne
- Educational Sciences
Nyckelord
- the Nordic countries
- comparative eduation
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-952-5401-71-4