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The Rhetoric of a Reform: The Construction of "Public", "Management" and the "New" in Norwegian Education Reforms of the 1990s
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Trippestad, Tom Are – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
This article presents a critical rhetorical analysis of the governing and reform ideology of the Norwegian school system of the 1990s. It uses Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies" as a critical resource in the reading of the reforms, and discusses some of the consequences of the regime's models of leadership and public…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
From Sputnik to PISA Shock -- New Technology and Educational Reform in Norway and Sweden
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Haugsbakk, Geir – Education Inquiry, 2013
The article offers a comparative perspective on how educational policy is influenced by two key phenomena that sent something akin to shockwaves through the Western world, and that in both cases highlighted basic deficiencies within the school system. The case of Norway and Sweden in particular, as well as the role of new technology, is examined.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Educational Change, Technology Uses in Education
The Relevance of Rhetoric to the Study of Power in Communication and Communicative Adequacy
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Elstad, Eyvind – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
The central focus in this article is that how language is used can constitute the basis for power relations. In the first place, power functions through linguistic expressions in relationships of superiority and subordination (commands, reprimands etc.). Secondly, language acts can appear as representations of discourse, i.e. linguistic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric