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oapen-20.500.12657-520112023-07-11T09:56:04Z Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model Larsen, Jesper Eckhardt Schulte, Barbara Thue, Fredrik W. comparative education Denmark Finland history of education Iceland Norway professional autonomy Sweden socio-cultural history teacher education teacher professionalism teaching culture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, recruitment patterns, teachers’ social status, values and knowledge. It considers how Nordic teachers´ socio-cultural backgrounds and their shifting societal roles compare with continental European examples, analysing the societal consequences of teacher cultures for the current Nordic welfare states. Offering a unique focus on teachers, the book uses a shared comparative and historical approach to add new knowledge to the analysis of global convergence and divergence in educational systems. The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, educational policy, the sociology of education and the history of education. It will also be of interest to policy makers, teacher educators and school leaders. 2021-12-14T16:34:51Z 2021-12-14T16:34:51Z 2022 book ONIX_20211214_9781000521252_3 9781000521252 9780367535896 9781003082514 9780367535858 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52011 eng Oxford Studies in Comparative Education application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000521252.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003082514 10.4324/9781003082514 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb University of Oslo 9781000521252 9780367535896 9781003082514 9780367535858 Routledge 260 open access
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Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, recruitment patterns, teachers’ social status, values and knowledge. It considers how Nordic teachers´ socio-cultural backgrounds and their shifting societal roles compare with continental European examples, analysing the societal consequences of teacher cultures for the current Nordic welfare states. Offering a unique focus on teachers, the book uses a shared comparative and historical approach to add new knowledge to the analysis of global convergence and divergence in educational systems. The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, educational policy, the sociology of education and the history of education. It will also be of interest to policy makers, teacher educators and school leaders.
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