Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling (1st ed. 2023)

By: Martin Thrupp and Piia Seppänen and Jaakko Kauko and Sonja Kosunen

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Synopsis: This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling.This book draws on the fields of sociology of education, education policy, urban studies, and policy sociology. It makes use of a range of research methodologies including ethnography, case study and discourse analysis, and references the work of relevant theorists, including Bourdieu and Foucault. This book aims to provide a critical, updated and astute analysis of the strengths and challenges of the Finnish education system.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789811982415
Related ISBNs:: 9789811982408
Publisher:: Springer Nature Singapore
Date of Addition:: 04/02/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Martin Thrupp
Edited by:: Piia Seppänen
Edited by:: Jaakko Kauko
Edited by:: Sonja Kosunen