Finland’s Famous Education System

Introduction.- Part 1: Politics, policy, teachers and edu-business.- Municipal governance of comprehensive education: The emergence of local universalisms.- Finland’s ministry of education and culture in the light of its working groups.- A progressive force in Finnish schooling?: Finland’s education union, OAJ and its influence on school-level education policy.- Finnish quality evaluation discourse: Swimming against the global tide?.- Ecological sustainability and steering of Finnish comprehensive schools.- Unmentioned challenges of Finnish teacher education: Decontextualisation, scientification and the rhetoric of the research-based agenda.- Teachers’ expectations and expectations of teachers: Understanding teachers’ societal role.- Businessing around comprehensive schooling.- Co-operation of edu-business and public schooling: Is the governance of education in Finland shifting from the public sector to networks?- Part 2: Equity, inequality, and the challenges of diversity, language and inclusion.- “Three bedrooms and a nice school” — Residential choices, school choices and vicious circles of segregation in the education landscape of Finnish cities.- Pupil selection and enrolment in comprehensive schools in urban Finland.- Everyday life in schools in disadvantaged areas.- Divided cities — Divided schools? School segregation and the role of needs-based resource allocation in Finland.- The significance of socioeconomic background for the educational dispositions and aspirations of Finnish school leavers.- Controversies and challenges in the history of gender discourses in education in Finland.- Rainbow paradise? Sexualities and gender diversity in Finnish schools.- Racism in Finnish school textbooks: Developments and discussions.- Saami language online education outside the Saami homeland — New pathways to social justice.- Education of pupils with migrant backgrounds: A systemic failure in the Finnish system?.- Negotiated, given and self-made paths: Immigrant origin girls and post-compulsory educational transition in Finland.- Language education for everyone? Busting access myths.- Rethinking Finland’s official bilingualism in education.- Religions and worldviews as “the problem” in Finnish schools.- Inclusion in Finland: Myths and realities.- Exclusively included? Finland’s inclusion success story and hidden dual system of mainstream and special needs education.- Student disengagement in Finnish comprehensive schooling.- Part 3: Epilogue.- The Foundations of Critical Studies in Education in Finland.