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Konflikt eller konsensus? - En jämförelse av Finland och Sveriges utbildningspolitik

Fredricsson, Johanna LU (2020) STVK02 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract (Swedish)
For several years, Finland has dominated the PISA surveys with their good results and conclusions have been drawn about the reasons behind Finland’s success. The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) stated in a report from 2005 that the Finnish education politics tends to be tinged with a higher amount of consensus compared to Sweden and that this may be a reason for the Finnish high scores in PISA. This study aims to explore if this is still a relevant difference today. Are political parties in Finland more united on education policy issues than Swedish parties? To examine this, political documents were studied from two parties in Finland, SDP and Samlingspartiet, and from two parties in Sweden, Socialdemokraterna and... (More)
For several years, Finland has dominated the PISA surveys with their good results and conclusions have been drawn about the reasons behind Finland’s success. The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) stated in a report from 2005 that the Finnish education politics tends to be tinged with a higher amount of consensus compared to Sweden and that this may be a reason for the Finnish high scores in PISA. This study aims to explore if this is still a relevant difference today. Are political parties in Finland more united on education policy issues than Swedish parties? To examine this, political documents were studied from two parties in Finland, SDP and Samlingspartiet, and from two parties in Sweden, Socialdemokraterna and Moderaterna. The theoretical background to this study is that educational reforms take a long time to implement. The study concludes that it is a low rate of political consensus in each country. Therefore, this does not seem to explain why Finland performs better in PISA than Sweden. At least not within this study's delimitations. (Less)
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author
Fredricsson, Johanna LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20201
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
utbildningspolitik, utbildning, Skolverket, PISA, Finland, Sverige
language
Swedish
id
9009706
date added to LUP
2020-09-21 15:39:18
date last changed
2020-09-21 15:39:18
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  abstract     = {{For several years, Finland has dominated the PISA surveys with their good results and conclusions have been drawn about the reasons behind Finland’s success. The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) stated in a report from 2005 that the Finnish education politics tends to be tinged with a higher amount of consensus compared to Sweden and that this may be a reason for the Finnish high scores in PISA. This study aims to explore if this is still a relevant difference today. Are political parties in Finland more united on education policy issues than Swedish parties? To examine this, political documents were studied from two parties in Finland, SDP and Samlingspartiet, and from two parties in Sweden, Socialdemokraterna and Moderaterna. The theoretical background to this study is that educational reforms take a long time to implement. The study concludes that it is a low rate of political consensus in each country. Therefore, this does not seem to explain why Finland performs better in PISA than Sweden. At least not within this study's delimitations.}},
  author       = {{Fredricsson, Johanna}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Konflikt eller konsensus? - En jämförelse av Finland och Sveriges utbildningspolitik}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}