Contrasting dynamics in education politics of extremes : : school choice in Chile and Finland / / edited by Piia Seppänen [and four others].

• Superior document: Comparative and international education ; Volume 37
• TeilnehmendeR: Seppänen, Piia,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; Volume 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book aims to enhance understanding of school choice as a supra-national travelling policy, explored in two strikingly different societies: Latin American Chile and North European Finland. Chile was among the first countries to implement school choice as a policy, which it did comprehensively in the early 1980s through the creation of a market environment. Finland introduced parental choice of a school on a very moderate scale and without the market elements in the mid-1990s. Predominant aspects of Chilean basic schooling include provision by for-profit and non-profit private and municipal organisations, voucher system, parental co-payment and ranking lists. Finland persists in keeping education under public-authority governance and free-of-charge, and in prohibiting profit making and rankings. The wide range of sociologists of education contributing to this book offer novel analyses and perspectives on the operation of school choice in Chile, the trailblazer, and Finland, the ‘European PISA leader’. Agnès van Zanten’s description of how school choice operates as a major dimension of social reproduction sets the scene. After that, Chilean and Finnish authors explore how the policy is displayed and used explicitly for very different societal purposes, although implicitly following similar patterns in the two countries with their histories, politics and cultures. Empirically the focus is on how families view and act on school choice. The research material includes large surveys, interviews and ethnographic data gathered in urban Chile and Finland. Capitalising on the concept of dynamics , the book concludes with some insights into how this globally travelling education policy has materialised in two apparently dissimilar societies and their localities.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Piia Seppänen , Alejandro Carrasco , Mira Kalalahti , Risto Rinne and Hannu Simola -- The determinants and dynamics of school choice / Agnès van Zanten -- The historical dynamics in Chilean and Finnish basic education politics / Jaakko Kauko , Javier Corvalán , Hannu Simola and Alejandro Carrasco -- Educational accountability in Chile and Finland / Alejandro Carrasco , Piia Seppänen , Risto Rinne and Alejandra Falabella -- Something universal? / Risto Rinne , Alejandro Carrasco and Carolina Flores -- Growing tolerance of pupil selection / Alejandra Falabella , Piia Seppänen and Dagmar Raczynski -- The role of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ knowledge in the choice of schools in Chilean and Finnish cities / Sonja Kosunen , Alejandro Carrasco and Manuel Tironi -- The middle classes, municipalities, and democratic iterations on basic educational rights in Finland / Janne Varjo , Mira Kalalahti and Heikki Silvennoinen -- Going the Extra mile / Carolina Flores , Manuel Alcaíno and Alejandro Carrasco -- Education for all? / Mira Kalalahti , Heikki Silvennoinen , Janne Varjo and Risto Rinne -- Contrasting Choice Policies and Parental Choices in Finnish Case Cities / Jaana Poikolainen and Sari Silmäri-Salo -- School Choice in Chile as a Sociocultural Practice / Alejandro Carrasco , Alejandra Falabella and Manuela Mendoza -- Conclusions / Piia Seppänen , Alejandro Carrasco , Mira Kalalahti , Risto Rinne , Hannu Simola and Dagmar Raczynski -- List of Contributors / Piia Seppänen , Alejandro Carrasco , Mira Kalalahti , Risto Rinne and Hannu Simola.