Dynamics in Education Politics : Understanding and explaining the Finnish case (Paperback)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.1 Comparative education as a contested terrain

1.2 A proposal for a more systematic, flexible and vivid approach: CADEP

2.1 The history of political situations

2.2 The history of political possibilities

2.3 The history of politicking

3.1. Late but enduring structures reflecting a belief in schooling

3.2. Middle-class liberalist equity meets factory- and farmland-based equality

3.3 Equality enhanced by the recession and PISA

3.4. Conclusion: buffering and embedded egalitarianism

4.1 From strict centralisation towards NPM and decentralisation

4.2 Punctuated trust

4.3 Non-materialised QAE

4.4 Conclusion: redistributing but punctuated trust

5.1. Leaving the Peruskoulu monolith behind

5.2. Contradictory school choice

5.3. Local politicking for soft school choice

5.4. Conclusion: reliable but diverged parenthood

6.1. From Herbart-Zillerian and social pedagogy to Peruskoulu didactics

6.2. Individualised Peruskoulu pedagogies since 1970

6.3. A hybrid of tradition and progress

6.4 Conclusion: consolidating but paternalistic progressivism