The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System : Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective (Paperback)

1. Introduction  Part I: Morphogenetic cycles, the contextualization of education and educational development  2. The structures of state educational systems and why they matter: Norway and Denmark compared  3. A letter by the Sami Lutheran missionary Thomas von Westen: A critical realist perspective on contextualization  4. Vindicating Archer’s concepts of educational systems ? centralized and decentralized ? as exemplars of critical realist theorizing  Part II: The spatial context of educational mechanisms  5. Towards a critical realist ontology for spatial education analysis  6. Structural constraints on teachers’ work: Comparing work experiences in rural and urban settings in Northern Norway  7. Reflexivity and educational decision-making processes among secondary school pupils  Part III: External and internal conditioning of educational interaction and practice  8. The impact of PISA on education in Norway: A morphogenetic perspective on structural elaboration in an education system  9. School leaders’ reflexive mode in their internal conversations on PISA  10. The worldwide language issue in education