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- Prytz, Johan, 1975-
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The OECD as a Booster of National School Governance : The case of New Math in Sweden, 1950-1975
- 2020
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Ingår i: Foro de Educación. - : FahrenHouse. - 1698-7799 .- 1698-7802. ; 18:2, s. 109-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New Math was an international reform movement aimed at thorough changes in school mathematics with respect to both content and teaching methods. This movement started to gain influence in the 1950s, and in the 1960s several countries prepared and implemented their own New Math reforms. This movement not only attracted prominent mathematicians and psychologists but also garnered support from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The New Math reforms are examples of how OECD supported thorough and broad changes in national systems of education. In most countries, however, the influence of New Math on syllabi began to fade by the 1970s. In this paper, I discuss how the New Math in Sweden reform boosted national governance and changed power relations between the teachers, textbook producers, and the national school administration. I also suggest that OECD continued to support this power structure through the testing enterprises associated with PISA.
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- Schumann, Claudia
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The self as onwardness : reading Emerson’s self-reliance and experience
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Ingår i: Foro de Educación. - : FahrenHouse. - 1698-7799 .- 1698-7802. ; 11:15, s. 29-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent scholarship has started to open up for social and political readings of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who John Dewey once called «the Philosopher of Democracy». The present paper attempts to promote the force and potential of this new Emersonianism for philosophy of education showing that Emerson’s notions of self-reliance and aversion to conformity are not inherently anti-social, a-moral or a-political. The paper first argues that Emerson proposes an understanding of self and society which undermines any bipolar opposition of the two concepts already in «Self-Reliance». Secondly, a closer reading of the later essay «Experience» examines his critique of a particular Western conception of thinking in terms of its political consequences. If there is to be hope for the individual self, then, for Emerson, there always has to be hope for a democratic society as well. He tries to remind us that the criterion for a democratic society consists in taking seriously the subjectivity of vision of every single one of its members.
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