Education InquiryPub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2299056
Sara Carlbaum, Linda Rönnberg
{"title":"Transforming Nordic early childhood education and care in times of marketisation, privatisation and commercialisation","authors":"Sara Carlbaum, Linda Rönnberg","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2299056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2299056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue focuses on important facets of market-oriented reforms in Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It aims to promote discussion on interlinked dimensions of marketisation, privatisation and commercialisation in Nordic ECEC and their manifestations in policy, practice and outcomes. With contributions from authors in five Nordic countries, the articles in the special issue offer accounts of marketisation, including the organisation of ECEC quasi-markets and shifts in the use and function of parental choice. The articles also analyse privatisation by researching the delivery of private services and the nature of the non-state providers within early childhood education markets. Finally, the theme of commercialisation is addressed through research on the commodification of preschool knowledge within Nordic countries but also its export in the global education industry. This special issue highlight how a variety of market-oriented policies, parental choice and private actor involvement are evolving. Taken together, the articles illustrate connections and mutually-reinforcing mechanisms of policy and practice that contribute to the expansion of marketisation, privatisation, and commercialisation in Nordic ECEC. This special issue provides a call to continue exploration of how these processes and actors contribute to the transformation of ECEC in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"68 12","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139452721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2299504
O. O. Bragason, I. A. Jóhannesson, Gudrun Geirsdottir
{"title":"Police education reform in Iceland: examining the legitimating principles, contradictions, and tensions in policy discourse","authors":"O. O. Bragason, I. A. Jóhannesson, Gudrun Geirsdottir","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2299504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2299504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2298527
Marit Ulvik, Liv Eide, Edel Karin Kvam
{"title":"Newly qualified secondary school teachers’ perspectives on workplace learning","authors":"Marit Ulvik, Liv Eide, Edel Karin Kvam","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2298527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2298527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139159199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2296143
William Foley
{"title":"Status beliefs negatively affect expected university attainment of lower class students","authors":"William Foley","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2296143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2296143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"3 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2297506
Gareth Evans
{"title":"A new dawn or false hope? Exploring the early implementation of curriculum for Wales","authors":"Gareth Evans","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2297506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2297506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2292824
Håkan Forsberg, Jennifer Waddling, Andreas Alm Fjellborg
{"title":"Class-based preschool enrolment - social stratification and quality differences in the Swedish preschool market","authors":"Håkan Forsberg, Jennifer Waddling, Andreas Alm Fjellborg","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2292824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2292824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"242 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139003799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2291934
Katri Sarkio, T. Korhonen, Kai Hakkarainen
{"title":"Preparing students for the future: multidisciplinary perspectives on pedagogical activities and their spatial embeddedness","authors":"Katri Sarkio, T. Korhonen, Kai Hakkarainen","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2291934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2291934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"41 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education InquiryPub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2280291
Anne Sigrid Haugset, Håkon Finne
{"title":"Governing early childhood education and care quality development among diverse private ECEC providers in Norway","authors":"Anne Sigrid Haugset, Håkon Finne","doi":"10.1080/20004508.2023.2280291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2280291","url":null,"abstract":"This article sheds light on governance mechanisms at work when decentralised implementation of national educational and welfare policies encounters a heterogeneous sector of private service provider organisations. It illuminates how isomorphic pressure plays out at the interface between local governance and private providers’ organisational strategies for quality development in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Key informant interviews are employed to investigate the function of local non-mandatory quality and competence-developing networks (QCDNs) as a locus for these interactions. Findings indicate that QCDNs contribute to shaping private ECEC providers’ quality development efforts, and that coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphic pressures become intertwined in this process. Most private provider organisations choose to participate in these non-mandatory networks. However, ECEC corporations and small private providers assign different meanings to their participation, and the networks thus appear to spur different organisational strategies. While small private providers harmoniously align their ECEC quality development strategies with institutionalised municipal practice, the provider corporations, while in formal compliance, exploit the resulting inter-municipal variation as one argument among many for more stringent national governmental standardisation. We demonstrate how isomorphic pressure may create and enable an impetus for endogenous and gradual institutional change agency.","PeriodicalId":37203,"journal":{"name":"Education Inquiry","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}