Educational Policy in an International Context

Part I. Political Cultures, Education, and History—An Introduction

1. Political Culture and Educational Reform
Geert Devos, Mats Ekholm, Kaspar Kofod, Karen Seashore Louis, Lejf Moos, Michael Schratz, Boudewijn Velzen

2. Historical Perspectives on Educational Policy and Political Cultures
Kasper Kofod, Karen Seashore Louis, Lejf Moos, Boudewijn Velzen

Part II. Introduction

3. Many Cooks Will Not Spoil the Broth: Educational Policy in Sweden
Mats Ekholm

4. Denmark: Bildung in a Competitive State?
Lejf Moos, Klaus Kasper Kofod

5. The Netherlands: The Clergyman and the Merchant Revisited
Boudewijn Velzen

6. Flanders (Belgium): Regulated Anarchy in Catholic and Public Education
Geert Devos

7. Austria’s Balancing Act: Walking the Tightrope between Federalism and Centralization
Michael Schratz

8. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The English Case
Karen Seashore Louis, John MacBeath

9. E Pluribus Unum? Dissonance in US Educational Political Culture
Karen Seashore Louis

Part III. The Cross-Country Studies

10. Reform in Stable Systems (Austria and Belgium [Flanders]): The Impossible Dream?
Geert Devos, Michael Schratz

11. Political Cultures in England and the Netherlands: Similar Discourse, Different Results
Karen Seashore Louis, Boudewijn Velzen

12. Examining the Myth of Nordic Uniformity: The Production of Educational Policy in Denmark and Sweden
Mats Ekholm, Lejf Moos

13. North Carolina and Nebraska: Two States, Two Policy Cultures, Two Outcomes
Molly F. Gordon, Karen Seashore Louis

Part IV. Reflections

14. “Wer Vorwärts Kommen Will, Muss Auch Mal Rückwarts Denken”: Reflections on the Case Studies
Boudewijn Velzen, Karen Seashore Louis, Geert Devos, Mats Ekholm, Kasper Kofod, Lejf Moos, Michael Schratz

15. Policy Cultures and Education Policy: A Central and Eastern European Perspective
Gábor Halász

16. Reflections from Practice on Political Culture and Education Reform
Ben Levin

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Education Policy, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, Public Policy