The Nordic Education Model: 'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy (Hardcover, 2014)

Foreword; Peter Mortimore .- 1. Nordic Schools in a Time of Change; Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen and Lejf Moos .- PART 1: Country Cases.- 2. A School for Every Child in Sweden; Ulf Blossing and Asa Soderstrom .- 3. The Norwegian School for All - Historical Emergence and Neoliberal Confrontation; Gunn Imsen and Nina Volckmar .- 4. A School for Less than All in Denmark; Annette Rasmussen and Lejf Moos.- 5. A School for All in Finland; Sirkka Ahonen .- 6. The Development of a School for All in Iceland: Equality, Threats and Political Conditions; Anna Kristin Sigurðardottir, Hafdis Guðjonsdottir and Johanna Karlsdottir .- PART 2: Thematic Chapters.- 7. A Social Democratic Response to Market-led Education Policies: Concession or Rejection?; Nina Volckmar and Susanne Wiborg .- 8. Progressive Education and New Governance in Denmark, Norway and Sweden; Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, and Lejf Moos .- 9. Assessing Children in the Nordic Countries - Framing, Diversity and Matters of Inclusion and Exclusion in a School for All; Karen Andreasen and Eva Hjorne .- 10. One School - Different Worlds: Segregation on the Basis of Freedom of Choice; Marianne Dovemark .- 11. Nordic Upper Secondary School: Regular and Irregular Programmes - or Just One Irregular School for All?; Anne Nevøy, Annette Rasmussen, Stein Erik Ohna and Thomas Barow .- 12. Dropout in a School for All: Individual or Systemic Solutions?; Trond Buland and Ida Holth Mathiesen.- 13. Schools for All: A Nordic Model; Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, and Lejf Moos .