Equity at Risk: Planned Educational Change in Norway - Hardcover

Solstad, Kari Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8200224929 ISBN 13: 9788200224921

Publisher: Aschehoug AS, 1996

Synopsis

Universal schooling in Norway was originated in 1793 by a Lutheran priest with an aim to achieve a greater readership of the Holy Book. Higher education during the 19th and 20th centuries can be traced to two other forces: firstly, education was seen as a vehicle to strengthen a poor nation with a scattered population and a history of national inferiority; and secondly, education in Norway, along with the growing labour movement, was recognized as a way of reducing injustice in society. These attitudes resulted in an education system almost devoid of the differences engendered by the classic sociological variables of gender, social class and geographical location. Norway had, it seemed, achieved what the post-war Norwegian welfare state strove for - equity in education. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, Norwegian researchers turned their attention to a number of qualitative aspects, asking the question does highly centralized and standardized education in fact represent fairness and justice for the diversity of individuals, local communities and social and ethnic groupings which constitute the society?

This book describes a new conceptualization of equity in education and the choices which must be made towards meeting the challenge. It does so from an international perspective, particularly with regard to developments in the UK and the USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aschehoug AS
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8200224929
• ISBN 13: 9788200224921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400