Nordic voices : : teaching and researching comparative and international education in the Nordic countries / / Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O'Dowd.

• Superior document: Comparative and International Education ; Volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Holmarsdottir, Halla B.,; O'Dowd, Mina,
• TeilnehmendeR: O'Dowd, Mina,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; 2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: VI, 317 s.; ill.

This volume represents the work of sixteen authors, who all work at different universities and other academic institutions in the Nordic countries. It provides insight into the diversity of research being conducted in the northernmost parts of Europe. Although it would be incorrect to assert that research in this far away part of Europe represents something drastically different than that done in other parts of the world, it would be equally incorrect to maintain that being at the outskirts, on the cusp, or on the periphery _ whichever way one wishes to describe the position of the Nordic countries in relation to the rest of the world—does not influence the ways in which educational processes, phenomena and their consequences are viewed. These sixteen Nordic Voices discuss with readers different issues regarding teaching and researching Comparative and International Education in the Nordic countries. The editors began their collaboration in 2006, working together to revitalize the Nordic Comparative and International Education Society. NOCIES was officially re-established in May, 2008. Halla B. Holmarsdottir , who is from Iceland, lives and works in Norway, where she is Associate Professor in Multicultural and International Education at Oslo University College. Mina O’Dowd , whose father is from the USA and mother is Norwegian, lives and works in Sweden. Nordic Voices: Teaching and Researching Comparative and International Education in the Nordic Countries is a result of the collaboration that began over three years ago.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O’Dowd -- Introduction / Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O’Dowd -- The Post-Lisbon Discourse on Skill Mismatches and Competence Upgrading / Marcella Milana -- Global Influences and National Peculiarities in Education and Training / Sara Frontini -- Interprofessional Cooperation Between Teachers and Librarians / Joron Pihl -- Citizenship Education and Intergovernmental Organisations / Nelli Piattoeva -- Social Cartography Mapping in Theory and Practice / Mina O’Dowd -- Private Schools and Social Segregation in Basic Education / Jon Lauglo -- Teacher’s Voices / Heidi Biseth -- Trajectories in a Changing Field / Jette Steensen -- Voices from the Field / Kristin Skinstad van der Kooij and Joron Pihl -- A Digital Divide / Gréta Björk Guðmundsdóttir and Sólveig Jakobsdóttir -- The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa / Anders Breidlid -- A Tale of Two Countries / Halla B. Holmarsdottir -- Making and Implementing Education Policy in the Context of External Support to Sector Development Programs / Tuomas Takala -- Education that Builds Peace or Fuels Armed Conflict / Kendra Dupuy -- A Way Forward / Holger Daun -- Reflections / Mina O’Dowd and Halla B. Holmarsdottir -- Contributors / Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O’Dowd.