Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model : Comparative and Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)

Introduction: Of myths and models: the unity and diversity of Nordic educational cultures Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue 1.Nordic elementary schoolteachers: organic intellectuals, agents of a colonising state, emancipatory groups, or all of these? Jesper Eckhardt Larsen 2. Preaching and teaching: the religious origins of Nordic teacher cultures Fredrik W. Thue 3. Peasant amongst peasants: the role of the Scandinavian teacher as farmer in the nineteenth century Christian Larsen 4. The Nordic model from afar: Chinese scholarly projections of Nordic education and teachers Barbara Schulte 5. Finnish primary teacher training and Nordic comparisons in Committee Reports from the 1860s to the 1960s Marjo Nieminen 6. Becoming universities? Academisation and the integration of Finnish and Swedish teacher education institutions in the system of higher education Janne Holmen and Johanna Ringarp 7. Approaches to pedagogy in Finnish and Danish pre-service teacher education: historical paths and contemporary divergence Beatrice Cucco and Jesper Eckhardt Larsen 8. Teacher education reform in Sweden, Germany, and England Lindsey Waine and Susanne Wiborg 9. Teacher unions, teacher cultures, and teacher education in Sweden and Finland 1970?2020 Bjorn Furuhagen and Janne Holmen 10. Elitist tradition and democratic reform: Norwegian and Danish upper-secondary teacher cultures in transition, 1960?1994 Lars Erik Larsen and Fredrik W. Thue 11. Discourses of teacher professionalism in Norway Sølvi Mausethagen 12. Teachers’ autonomy in assessment between perceived fairness and institutional framings: Sweden and Germany in comparison Kathleen Falkenberg and Johanna Ringarp 13. Integration, fragmentation and complexity: governing the teaching profession and the Nordic model Wieland Wermke, Tine S. Prøitz Conclusion- Schoolteachers and the Nordic model Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue