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Direct linkJoakim Jensen; Jan Skrobanek; Solvejg Jobst – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This paper focuses on contemporary tensions and contradictions in current Norwegian educational policy discourse. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Norwegian governmental white papers our analysis reveals that contemporary Norwegian policy formulation is torn between an egalitarian and a selection discourse about how to tackle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Discourse Analysis
Eli Smeplass; Anna Cecilia Rapp; Anabel Corral-Granados – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
This article explores the institutional dynamics that contribute to educational inequality within Nordic cities. The persistent issue of social inequality in education remains a prominent challenge for the Nordic welfare states. By investigating the gaps between educational policies and their practical implementation, this study sheds light on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Housing
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Metsämuuronen, Jari; Lehikko, Anu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of the article is to offer a base for discussions on educational equality from the viewpoint of changes in the world causing widening disparities between pupils and students. The essence and possibilities of educational equity and equality in the Nordic educational realm are discussed from six viewpoints. The outcome is that all children…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tommaso Rompianesi; Line T. Hilt – Intercultural Education, 2024
This paper will investigate how specific "narratives on the inclusion of minority language students" (MLSs) are constructed in Norwegian and Italian educational policy documents. We will employ the Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) analytical categories with an interpretative narrative approach to reconstruct the two national policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Inclusion
Smeplass, Eli; Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Sperling, Katarina; Akse, Jannicke – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Childhood marginalization is the result of complicated processes that appears difficult to address for policymakers worldwide. Neo-institutional theory enables studies of the complexity of educational organizations, showing how they evolve in responses to their contradictory surroundings and generate unintended social inequality. Three Nordic…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Urban Areas, Social Problems, Equal Education
Corral-Granados, Anabel; Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Smeplass, Eli – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
Literature regarding the gap between the conceptualization of inequality and school staffs' perception of it in Norwegian schools is scarce. Therefore, we explore the challenges that Norwegian school staff have experienced as they work to ensure inclusive education at three schools. We address this challenge by examining three purposefully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Equal Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Download full textStuart Cameron; Sophia D’Angelo; Daniela Gamboa Zapatel; Maria Qureshi – Global Partnership for Education, 2024
Children with disabilities remain among the most excluded from education in Global Partnership for Education (GPE) partner countries and other lower-income countries. Despite considerable activity funded both through GPE and by other donors, as well as by partner countries themselves, the level of international support to inclusive education…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Donors, Developing Nations, Inclusion
Minttu Johler; Rune Johan Krumsvik – Education 3-13, 2024
In this case study, the aim was to investigate how primary school teachers in a leading-edge Norwegian primary school use digital technologies to differentiate instruction in order to promote a more inclusive learning environment in academically diverse classrooms. Seven teachers teaching grades 1 and 5 were observed and interviewed to collect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Innovation, Technology Integration
Merket, Monika – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper investigates the educational field by focusing on an integrated teacher education program [ITE] in Norway and OECD policy. The author centers attention on Norwegian teacher education and how globalization through such international agents as the OECD has had impact on national policy documents. Basil Bernstein's concept of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Global Approach
Steinmann, Isa; Olsen, Rolf Vegar – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: The present study addresses the equality of school effectiveness across schools. One central aim of compulsory education is for students to learn equally well at all schools in a country even if these schools differ in terms of student composition. However, measuring equality of learning gains independently from selection effects…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Equal Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Bente G. Kvitvaer Nordmo – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore the disparity in the perspectives of female and male staff in promoting physical activity towards 3-5-year-old girls and boys in the outdoor playground of a Norwegian kindergarten. The sample consisted of eight female staff and two male staff members from one kindergarten. Semi-structured…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, School Personnel
Stuart, Kaz – Educational Action Research, 2022
This paper reports on the process of participatory action research from a three-year project to co-create ideas to reduce educational inequity with young people funded by Erasmus+. The project involved 10 academics and 50 university students from Norway, Denmark and England who co-researched 200 young people's experiences of educational inequity.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Equal Education, College Students
Ikeda, Miyako – OECD Publishing, 2022
Many education systems aim to provide learning opportunities to all students regardless of their backgrounds in order for them to realise their potential. Education systems are expected to break down barriers to social mobility. However, too often, children are not given enough opportunities to succeed, to pursue their interests, or to develop…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Social Differences
Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Knutas, Agneta – Educational Research, 2023
Background: Educational opportunities and access vary according to location. In rural areas, the cultural, social and material consequences for local communities depend on the nature and degree of support for rural schools. There is a need to understand more about how the organisation of vocational education and training (VET), and the activities…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Vocational Education, Rural Education, Access to Education
