Cultivating Excellence in Education A Critical Policy Study on Talent /

• Main Authors: Rasmussen, Annette (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ydesen, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Educational Governance Research, 12
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book critically analyses the current education political strategy of cultivating excellence in education. It shows how the new policy for selecting talented students in Denmark deconstructs the compromise from which the comprehensive school was built and reduces equal opportunities. It discusse...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Studying the cultivation of excellence and talent in education
• 2. Education and talent in an international, conceptual history perspective
• 3. Talent and educational differentiation in Denmark
• 4. Talent class activities in a Danish school context; 5. Identification and classification of the talented students
• 6. Teaching in the talent classes
• 7. Policy perceptions of talent activities among local teachers
• 8. Excellence, Talent and Education in a Global Perspective
• 9. Concluding discussion.