Firmly Bolted into the Air: Wishful Rationalism as a Discursive Basis for Educational Reforms.

Simola, Hannu

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ERIC Number: EJ572773

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Publication Date: 1998

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Firmly Bolted into the Air: Wishful Rationalism as a Discursive Basis for Educational Reforms.

Simola, Hannu

Teachers College Record, v99 n4 p731-57 Sum 1998

Examines changes in official Finnish school-reform discourse over the past 30 years, noting four discursive changes from the 1860s to the 1990s (individualization of students, disciplinization of teaching knowledge, goal rationalization, and decontextualization). Interprets these shifts as the result of a blend of utopianism and rationalism which generates additional discourse on reform. (SM)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Individualism, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Public Education

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Finland

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