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Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no testing, no inspection, no hard evaluation, no detailed national curriculum, no accountability and no hard competition. From a historical and sociological perspective the Finnish case is not merely a
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Education policy-making and governance: struggling between egalitarianism and market liberalism; 1. Firmly bolted into the air: wishful rationalism as a discursive basis for educational reforms?; 2. Abdication of the education state? Constructing a new system of reason in Finnish schooling; 3. Quality assurance and evaluation in Finnish compulsory schooling: a national model or just unintended effects of radical decentralization?
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Part II Teachers and their education: paradoxes in a successful professionalization project4. Educational science, the state and teachers: setting up the corporate regulation of teacher education in Finland; 5. The birth of the modern Finnish teacher: a Foucauldian exercise; 6. Didactic closure: professionalization and pedagogical knowledge in Finnish teacher education; Part III Schooling practices: a peculiar marriage of the traditional and the progressive
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7. From exclusion to self-selection: the examination of behaviour in Finnish primary and comprehensive schools from the 1860s to the 1990s8. 'It's progress but . . .': Finnish teachers talking about their changing work; 9. Changes in Nordic teaching practices: from individualized teaching to the teaching of individuals; Part IV Understanding the Finnish PISA miracle: decent work ethics, reasonable leadership and lucky constellations; 10. The Finnish miracle of PISA: historical and sociological remarks on teaching and teacher education
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11. Against the flow: path dependence, convergence and contingency in understanding the Finnish QAE model12. Education politics and contingency: belief, status and trust behind the Finnish PISA miracle; Aftermath; A selected English bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135084097
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415812580
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Simola, Hannu The Finnish education mystery London : Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138096998
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415812580
Language:
English
Keywords:
Finnland
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