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The politics of comprehensive school reforms : cleavages and coalitions / Katharina Sass.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sass, Katharina, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education Series
- The comparative politics of Education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational change--Norway--History.
- Educational change.
- Educational change--Germany (West)--History.
- Educational equalization--Norway--History.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational equalization--Germany (West)--History.
- Education and state--Norway--History.
- Education and state.
- Education and state--Germany (West)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political divides, that shape actors' interests, ideologies, and inclinations for who they want to cooperate with - or not. The book analyzes cross-cutting cleavages connected to religion, geography, language, anticommunism, and gender, and demonstrates how Norwegian social democrats and German Christian democrats built successful coalitions by mobilizing support from different social groups. Extensively researched and expansively applicable, this book contributes to the interdisciplinary literature on the politics of education, and to the field of comparative welfare and education regime research. This book is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Contents:
- Back to the roots
- Political playing fields : actors' power resources and social base
- The class cleavage : struggles over comprehensive schooling
- The crosscutting cleavages : struggles over religion, centralization, language, anticommunism, and gender.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Aug 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9781009235204
- 1009235206
- 9781009235228
- 1009235222
- 9781009235211
- 1009235214
- OCLC:
- 1327606441
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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