The Nordic Education Model

1. Nordic Schools in a Time of Change
Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, Lejf Moos

Part I. Country Cases

2. A School for Every Child in Sweden
Ulf Blossing, Åsa Söderström

3. The Norwegian School for All: Historical Emergence and Neoliberal Confrontation
Gunn Imsen, Nina Volckmar

4. A School for Less Than All in Denmark
Annette Rasmussen, Lejf Moos

5. A School for All in Finland
Sirkka Ahonen

6. The Development of a School for All in Iceland: Equality, Threats and Political Conditions
Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir, Jóhanna Karlsdóttir

Part II. Thematic Chapters

7. A Social Democratic Response to Market-Led Education Policies: Concession or Rejection?
Nina Volckmar, Susanne Wiborg

8. Progressive Education and New Governance in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, Lejf Moos

9. Assessing Children in the Nordic Countries: Framing, Diversity and Matters of Inclusion and Exclusion in a School for All
Karen Andreasen, Eva Hjörne

10. A School for All? Different Worlds: Segregation on Basis of Freedom of Choice
Marianne Dovemark

11. Nordic Upper Secondary School: Regular and Irregular Programmes – Or Just One Irregular School for All?
Anne Nevøy, Annette Rasmussen, Stein Erik Ohna, Thomas Barow

12. Dropout in a School for All: Individual or Systemic Solutions?
Trond Buland, Ida Holth Mathiesen

13. Schools for All: A Nordic Model
Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, Lejf Moos

Nyckelord: Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education