University in the Making of the Welfare State
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- ISBN 9783631584613
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In just a couple of decades, Finland evolved from one of Europe’s lowest educated countries to the top performer of the international PISA ranking. Behind this «success story», there was a conscious strategy to use educational policies for creating a more equal society. Tracing the development of Finnish higher education system after WWII, this book depicts the role of educational expansion in the making of the welfare state. It focuses on the 1970s degree reform and the challenges brought by the 1973 Oil Crisis, resulting in the rise of New Public Management. Though meticulously planned, the reform was a struggle between various actors with conflicting strategies and goals; between educational optimism and scarce resources, academic values and instrumentalism, social justice and elitism.
Marja Jalava is Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has published widely on modern and contemporary Finnish and Nordic history, intellectual history, and the history of historiography.
