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Nordic School Policy Approaches to Evidence, Social Technologies and Transnational Collaboration

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What Works in Nordic School Policies?

Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research ((EGTU,volume 15))

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This volume gives an overview of how national school policies in the five different Nordic countries have produced, interpreted and practiced different – yet similar – approaches to evidence, social technologies and collaborations in transnational forums like the OECD, EU, and IEA. The national policy developments and situations are seen in the context of transnational and global influences and as producers of and simultaneously consumers of, Nordic influences. We investigate social technologies, like evidence and what works, as major carriers of influence.

The analyses and discussions in the chapters of this volume are built on reports from the school systems of the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The country reports are constructed on the basis of a shared format for analyzing the particular contexts that each national school policy and practice emerges from in terms of society, politics, governance, professions and education. The comparisons of country reports and thematic chapters unveil similarities and differences that are central to understanding the ways that the different Nordic countries cope with transnational policy advice and policy formats.

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    OECD (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) – WB (The World Bank) – WTO (The World Trade Organisation) – EU and EC (European Union and European Commission) – NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) – ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations).

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    Since the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 there has been some leeway for the European Commission to take initiatives to and coordinate education initiatives between the member states, but always with respect to the principle of subsidiarity, meaning that decisions should be made on the national level, if nations decide so.

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Moos, L., Krejsler, J.B. (2021). Nordic School Policy Approaches to Evidence, Social Technologies and Transnational Collaboration. In: Krejsler, J.B., Moos, L. (eds) What Works in Nordic School Policies?. Educational Governance Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66629-3_1

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