Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education

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 dimension Chapter 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 practice Chapter 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”