Equity at risk
Subtitle: planned educational change in Norway : pitfalls and progress
By: Karl Jan Solstad.
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oslo; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Educational equalization -- Norway.
Description: Equity at Risk is about change in basic education. At the ideological level, the author is concerned with changing conceptions of equity during the last couple of decades. He also demonstrates the formal manifestations of Norway's shift from an "equity through equality" - to an "equity through diversity" - ideology, in terms of a new national curriculum and legislative changes allowing for a more decentralized provision of primary and lower secondary education. The book also includes an empirical study of the extent to which the schools have been able to develop their organization according to such new ideas and demands. The aim of the book is to elucidate for students, educators, and policy makers at all levels the long way and many pitfalls involved in changing reform ideas into established practices. It also provides guidance on how schools - through planned efforts - can improve as organizations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and indexes.