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The Clash of Cultures: Individualization and Standardization in Education
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Ove Skarpenes; Kari-Mette Walmann Hidle – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
In this essay, we argue that pupils in compulsory school education seem to be exposed to conflicting pressures from an (internal) tendency towards individualisation and an (external) tendency towards standardisation. Drawing on Luc Bolanski and Laurent Thévenot's pragmatic sociology of orders of worth, we develop a theoretical framework to discuss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Individualism, Social Behavior