Abstract

ANTIKAINEN, Ari. Restructuring a Nordic Model in Education. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2008, n.11, pp.31-48. ISSN 1645-7250.

This article discusses the Nordic model or pattern of welfare state and education. It shows how restructuring processes are going at policy level and institutional level. Still the basic structures of the Nordic model or pattern, especially the principles of comprehensive schools and local schools, are left. By the institutional approach, a new path generation or institutional pattern is emerging, but its legitimization and establishment will take a long time. Changes in policy and organization are much faster than in sociocultural settings. Such success stories like the Danish labour market reform and the rise of the Finnish knowledge intensive ICT cluster have paved the way for this transformation. There is still a possibility that a welfare-state strategy and a competition-state strategy will coexist.

Keywords : Education; Welfare State; Workfare State; Nordic model.

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