Palle Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Palle Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Palle |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6923-7071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Right-wing populist education policy in a social democratic welfare state context
The article analyses the education ideologies and policies of two Danish right-wing populist political parties, the Danish People’s Party and the New Right Party. The two parties differ in their political trajectories and profiles, but both represent a right-wing populism emphasizing the opposition between the people on the one hand and the elite and its alliance with foreigners on the other. In a national context with a strong welfare state trad…
Public Reason, Adult Education and Social Imagination
Communities of publics where citizens together develop informed opinion as basis for political decisions is crucial to democracy; and adult education can contribute vitally to such communities. This was argued by two critical social scientists, Charles Wright Mills and Oskar Negt. Researching and writing in different situations and drawing on different traditions, they voiced many of the same concerns about the inequalities and contradictions of …
The vocational turn of adult education in Denmark – an analysis of adult education policy from the late 1990s
Denmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political presence of Danish adult education has changed. While education policy issues generally abound in public and…
Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education
The Nordic countries are often perceived as a coherent group representing the Nordic model of welfare states, with a strong emphasis on the public provision of universal welfare and a strong concern with social equality. But today we see a change in the Nordic model as part of a global knowledge economy. The aim of this article is to examine education in the five Nordic countries utilising three dimensions of political change: deregulation, marke…
Challenges for adult skill formation in the globalising learning economy – a European perspective
The globalising learning economy driven by more intense competition and the wide use of information and communication technologies is characterised by rapid change in technologies and markets. At the level of labour markets and within enterprises, this is reflected in continuous change in skill requirements for employees. This is true for all parts of the world economy. In this paper, the focus is on Europe and developments in the first decade of…
Adult education and the challenges of regional development
The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability
Societal sustainability
War, violence and masculinities
The evolution and social constitution of masculinities are intimately linked to violence and to warfare as an organised field of violent practices. The present issues of NORMA explore the mutual influences between violence, war and masculinities, the forms these have taken in different social and cultural contexts and the implications for masculinity research. The issues cover a range of historical and current topics, cases and analytical approac…
Conceptions of student talent in the context of talent development
This paper reports from a case study of a ‘talent class’, a special development programme for talented pupils, established in a Danish municipality. It analyses student backgrounds and motives for joining this talent class programme, which is seen in relation to ordinary schooling in Denmark. Drawing on Bourdieu, the paper links social background resources and success in school via the concepts of habitus and capital; it views talent as the produ…
Lifelong learning policy in two national contexts
This article describes and discusses the development of lifelong learning policy in two EU member states, Denmark and Portugal. The purpose is to show how different societal and historical contexts shape the development and implementation of lifelong learning policies, even though these policies have significant common elements. As a basis for the discussion an inventory of policy elements is presented. Denmark and Portugal have been chosen as ex…
Gæsteredaktørernes forord
Uddannelse og social innovation
Social innovation handler om at udvikle innovative svar på samfundsmæssige behov, som ikke i tilstrækkeligt omfang dækkes af eksisterende former for privat eller offentlig service. Der er oftest tale om svar, som udvikles af ikke-kommercielle organisationer og aktører gennem kreative processer med et væsentligt element af initiativ ”nedefra”. Uddannelse er et af de områder, hvor social innovation både historisk og aktuelt har haft betydning. Hist…
Education for everyone
This article presents an analysis of the recent development of secondary education in Denmark. The author relates this topic to educational policy on the one hand and to processes and problems of social inclusion on the other. It is argued that different types of upper secondary education play important roles in the social inclusion of young people in society. Three main sectors in Danish secondary education are identified, and for each sector th…
Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education
The Nordic countries are often perceived as a coherent group representing the Nordic model of welfare states, with a strong emphasis on the public provision of universal welfare and a strong concern with social equality. But today we see a change in the Nordic model as part of a global knowledge economy. The aim of this article is to examine education in the five Nordic countries utilising three dimensions of political change: deregulation, marke…
Challenges for adult skill formation in the globalising learning economy – a European perspective
The globalising learning economy driven by more intense competition and the wide use of information and communication technologies is characterised by rapid change in technologies and markets. At the level of labour markets and within enterprises, this is reflected in continuous change in skill requirements for employees. This is true for all parts of the world economy. In this paper, the focus is on Europe and developments in the first decade of…
Right-wing populist education policy in a social democratic welfare state context
The article analyses the education ideologies and policies of two Danish right-wing populist political parties, the Danish People’s Party and the New Right Party. The two parties differ in their political trajectories and profiles, but both represent a right-wing populism emphasizing the opposition between the people on the one hand and the elite and its alliance with foreigners on the other. In a national context with a strong welfare state trad…
War, violence and masculinities
The evolution and social constitution of masculinities are intimately linked to violence and to warfare as an organised field of violent practices. The present issues of NORMA explore the mutual influences between violence, war and masculinities, the forms these have taken in different social and cultural contexts and the implications for masculinity research. The issues cover a range of historical and current topics, cases and analytical approac…
Societal sustainability
Lifelong learning policy in two national contexts
This article describes and discusses the development of lifelong learning policy in two EU member states, Denmark and Portugal. The purpose is to show how different societal and historical contexts shape the development and implementation of lifelong learning policies, even though these policies have significant common elements. As a basis for the discussion an inventory of policy elements is presented. Denmark and Portugal have been chosen as ex…
The vocational turn of adult education in Denmark – an analysis of adult education policy from the late 1990s
Denmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political presence of Danish adult education has changed. While education policy issues generally abound in public and…
Adult education and the challenges of regional development
The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability
Conceptions of student talent in the context of talent development
This paper reports from a case study of a ‘talent class’, a special development programme for talented pupils, established in a Danish municipality. It analyses student backgrounds and motives for joining this talent class programme, which is seen in relation to ordinary schooling in Denmark. Drawing on Bourdieu, the paper links social background resources and success in school via the concepts of habitus and capital; it views talent as the produ…
Education for everyone
This article presents an analysis of the recent development of secondary education in Denmark. The author relates this topic to educational policy on the one hand and to processes and problems of social inclusion on the other. It is argued that different types of upper secondary education play important roles in the social inclusion of young people in society. Three main sectors in Danish secondary education are identified, and for each sector th…
Gæsteredaktørernes forord
Uddannelse og social innovation
Social innovation handler om at udvikle innovative svar på samfundsmæssige behov, som ikke i tilstrækkeligt omfang dækkes af eksisterende former for privat eller offentlig service. Der er oftest tale om svar, som udvikles af ikke-kommercielle organisationer og aktører gennem kreative processer med et væsentligt element af initiativ ”nedefra”. Uddannelse er et af de områder, hvor social innovation både historisk og aktuelt har haft betydning. Hist…
Conceptions of student talent in the context of talent development
This paper reports from a case study of a ‘talent class’, a special development programme for talented pupils, established in a Danish municipality. It analyses student backgrounds and motives for joining this talent class programme, which is seen in relation to ordinary schooling in Denmark. Drawing on Bourdieu, the paper links social background resources and success in school via the concepts of habitus and capital; it views talent as the produ…
Lifelong learning policy in two national contexts
This article describes and discusses the development of lifelong learning policy in two EU member states, Denmark and Portugal. The purpose is to show how different societal and historical contexts shape the development and implementation of lifelong learning policies, even though these policies have significant common elements. As a basis for the discussion an inventory of policy elements is presented. Denmark and Portugal have been chosen as ex…
War, violence and masculinities
The evolution and social constitution of masculinities are intimately linked to violence and to warfare as an organised field of violent practices. The present issues of NORMA explore the mutual influences between violence, war and masculinities, the forms these have taken in different social and cultural contexts and the implications for masculinity research. The issues cover a range of historical and current topics, cases and analytical approac…
Challenges for adult skill formation in the globalising learning economy – a European perspective
The globalising learning economy driven by more intense competition and the wide use of information and communication technologies is characterised by rapid change in technologies and markets. At the level of labour markets and within enterprises, this is reflected in continuous change in skill requirements for employees. This is true for all parts of the world economy. In this paper, the focus is on Europe and developments in the first decade of…
Adult education and the challenges of regional development
The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability
Societal sustainability
Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education
The Nordic countries are often perceived as a coherent group representing the Nordic model of welfare states, with a strong emphasis on the public provision of universal welfare and a strong concern with social equality. But today we see a change in the Nordic model as part of a global knowledge economy. The aim of this article is to examine education in the five Nordic countries utilising three dimensions of political change: deregulation, marke…
The vocational turn of adult education in Denmark – an analysis of adult education policy from the late 1990s
Denmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political presence of Danish adult education has changed. While education policy issues generally abound in public and…
Public Reason, Adult Education and Social Imagination
Communities of publics where citizens together develop informed opinion as basis for political decisions is crucial to democracy; and adult education can contribute vitally to such communities. This was argued by two critical social scientists, Charles Wright Mills and Oskar Negt. Researching and writing in different situations and drawing on different traditions, they voiced many of the same concerns about the inequalities and contradictions of …
Right-wing populist education policy in a social democratic welfare state context
The article analyses the education ideologies and policies of two Danish right-wing populist political parties, the Danish People’s Party and the New Right Party. The two parties differ in their political trajectories and profiles, but both represent a right-wing populism emphasizing the opposition between the people on the one hand and the elite and its alliance with foreigners on the other. In a national context with a strong welfare state trad…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Adult education (6 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (5 works) · Higher Education Learning Practices (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (4 works) · Higher education (4 works)