Neighbours on different paths - on trust and policymaking within education in Finland and Sweden

• In 2014 Dean Fink (2016) initiated an international research project on trust in education. It included researchers from Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden and the USA. The purpose of the project was to analyze teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of trust in different educational conxts. This paper focuses on Finland and Sweden, neighboring countries with a shared history, similar Nordic cultural beliefs and political systems. Still, Finland has made a success-story in PISA, as opposed to Sweden. However it is doubtful if Big Data alone will be able to fix education systems (Sahlberg 2017).Trust makes or breaks governments, businesses and social organizations such as schools. Trust creates confidence among individuals within a society or organizations, enabling change to take place, or suspicion that slows it down, or in the extreme buries it. The more one trusts the more one has confidence in the other, and the more vulnerable one becomes if trust is betrayed (Bryk & Schneider 2002; Fukuyama 1996; Fink 2001; Covey 2006; Tschannen-Moran 2009; Yamagishi 2011).

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Policymaking

trust

Education

Pedagogik

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)