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Intersections in Education: Blending Chinese and Nordic Perspectives

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In this chapter, the book editors problematise the idea of education utopias and explain how it can be applied to the Chinese and Nordic contexts. Reviewing recent studies on both societal and educational issues in the two contexts, they propose to add to current approaches by revising certain principles of comparative education. For example, the authors argue that there is a need to shift from an overemphasis on difference to taking into account both difference and similarity. They also propose the following guiding principles: modesty from all those involved; realism; myth hunting; and decentring. By doing so, they wish to avoid comparing apples and oranges and providing readers with false analogies. The different chapters comprising this book are introduced at the end of the chapter.

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  1. Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Fred Dervin

  2. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Haiqin Liu

  3. College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Xiangyun Du

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    Haiqin Liu

  2. Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Fred Dervin

  3. College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Xiangyun Du

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Dervin, F., Liu, H., Du, X. (2019). Intersections in Education: Blending Chinese and Nordic Perspectives. In: Liu, H., Dervin, F., Du, X. (eds) Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education. Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28588-3_1

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