Finland's Famous Education System : Unva

Finlands Famous Education SystemUnvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling\nAuthor(s): Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppnen, Jaakko Kauko, Sonja Kosunen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore\nImprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore\nISBN-13: 9789811982439, 978-9811982439\nSynopsis\nThis open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling.\nThis book draws on the fields of sociology of education, education policy, urban studies, and policy sociology. It makes use of a range of research methodologies including ethnography, case study and discourse analysis, and references the work of relevant theori.