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Scrutinizing the Nordic Dimension in Education: Myths, Realities, and Integration Efforts

Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (8:00 to 9:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 111

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This symposium explores the Nordic dimension in education and what unites and divides the five small Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)(Andersen et al., 2007; Krejsler, 2024).
Each of the Nordic countries appreciates the critical mass that similar – but not identical – school and education systems and values offer; that ideas can be developed in a Nordic forum before going ‘international’ in an educational world where Anglo-American standards, procedures and norms prevail (Krejsler & Moos, 2021).
The symposium explores the myths and realities in education of a Nordic dimension that range from an imagined national-romantic community of a 19th-century kind to the Post-WW2 pragmatic collaborations connected to developing Nordic Social-Democratic Welfare States (Hilson, 2008; Telhaug et al., 2006; Tjeldvoll, 1998)

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