Susanne Wiborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Wiborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiborg |
| SIGNATURE | WIBORG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0213-1114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Politics of School Choice in Scandinavia
Since the 1980s, Scandinavian countries have pursued performance‐oriented education, yet only Sweden and Denmark adopted school choice reforms—while Norway stood apart by not introducing it. Sweden pioneered school choice reform in 1992, which included provisions for a universal voucher system and free schools. Denmark followed suit with the 2005 Free School Choice Act, allowing choice within the public‐school sector in addition to private option…
Free Schools in England
The aim of this article is to investigate the argument that choice and competition will unleash entrepreneurial innovation in free schools. Free schools were introduced as a subset of the Academies by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, following the general election in 2010. The government made it possible for non-state providers to set up their own independent, state-funded schools in order to create more choice, competition…
Teachers Unions in the Nordic Countries
Teacher unions in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) were once exceptionally powerful, a situation facilitated by the corporatist political system and the social democrats – the largest political party. However, corporatist governance and social democracy have weakened over the last three decades, which has reduced teacher unions’ influence on national policy formulation and diminished their bargaining power. Nevertheless, te…
The Comparative Politics of Education
Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a coherent, thriving field on the comparative politics…
Private Schools and the Provision of 'Public Benefit
Legislative changes and a recent court ruling allow private schools in England and Wales to determine how to provide the public benefits required to justify their charitable status. We investigate how private school headteachers and other informed stakeholders perceive their public benefit objectives and obligations. We find that schools interpret public beneficiaries widely to include one or more of state school pupils, local communities, other …
A Social Democratic Response to Market-Led Education Policies
Neo-liberalism and universal state education
This article investigates neo-liberal policy on education in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Traditionally, the edifice of the education system in these Scandinavian countries has been built on egalitarian values, but over the last 20 years they have increasingly adopted market-led reforms of education. The extent of neo-liberal policy varies between the countries. Denmark and Norway have remained more hostile toward such policies, thus protecting th…
Social Class Formation and Educational Participation
By using the middle school as a link between elementary and secondary education, Scandinavian countries were able to develop ladders of opportunity much more rapidly than the other countries in this study. As we saw in the previous chapter, the considerable degree of state involvement in education in these countries certainly acted as a necessary condition for this development. However, state intervention in schooling cannot be seen as a sufficie…
The Conglomerate Education System
One of the results of centuries of state building in Europe was the establishment of national education systems in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These systems comprised various organizational forms of public primary and secondary schools that preconditioned the possibilities for the development of unified single structures in the late nineteenth century. Systems of primary schools were incrementally consolidated through, in …
Conclusion
The previous chapters have tested various historical hypotheses about the factors that may have promoted or retarded the development of educational ladders, and thereafter comprehensive school systems, in five European states. On the basis of these analyses it is possible to put forward a comparative explanation of the uneven development of comprehensive education in Scandinavia, on one hand, and Germany and England, on the other. These keywords …
Liberal Politics
The introduction of the middle school, as we have seen, represented an important milestone in the development of the ladder system of education in Scandinavia. A powerful explanation for the origins of this development may be found in the role that the liberal parties played in its introduction. The liberal parties sought to use education as a means for creating “class circulation” or, in modern terminology, social cohesion. This, they believed, …
Social Democratic Politics
During the twentieth century the advancement of comprehensive schooling became the core of Scandinavian educational policy. The school systern, which comprised the elementary school, the middle school, and the upper secondary school, was subjected to major reforms that ultimately made its compulsory part fully comprehensive—a nine-year unselective system combining the elementary and middle school, with mixed ability classes throughout. Dissatisfa…
The Uneven Development of Comprehensive Education in Scandinavia, Germany, and England
The comprehensive school has been proclaimed “dead” by many commentators and politicians, particularly in the English-speaking countries (Franklin and McCulloch, 2007). Where not officially discarded, the idea and the term have often been quietly forgotten. So, why return now to this relic of the past, which in many countries is no longer the cynosure of politicians and policy-makers? Why should we be concerned with this supposedly outmoded idea,…
Comprehensive Education Consolidated
This chapter investigates the continuing impact of social democracy on the development of comprehensive education in the period after the Second World War. As will be seen, forms of social democracy continued to develop in all the countries under investigation here, either in the classic mode of social democratic parties, as in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, or in the particular laborist and liberal mutations found in Britain. Here Labor…
Education and Social Integration
This book traces national policies behind the efforts of integrating education systems in Europe. Based on a wide-ranging historical analysis, this book offers the first fully comparative explanation
Education and Social Integration
The purpose of this article is to outline a framework of explanation of the unique tradition of comprehensive schooling in Scandinavia. All the countries developed an all-through system of education from grade one to nine/ten with mixed ability classes for nearly all. This all-through system of education is a product of a long historical development. It will be argued that four factors shaped this development: strong state involvement, a relative…
Political and Cultural Nationalism in Education. The ideas of Rousseau and Herder concerning national education
L'auteur confronte ici les idees opposees de Rousseau et de Herder dans la definition du concept de Etat-Nation, l'un lui donnant une tournure politique et institutionnelle et l'autre le presentant comme une communaute linguistique heterogene dont le caractere culturel s'opposait nettement a la definition politique de Rousseau. L'auteur fait ainsi naitre une definition de la notion de nationalite en rapport avec l'education
Neo-liberalism and universal state education
This article investigates neo-liberal policy on education in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Traditionally, the edifice of the education system in these Scandinavian countries has been built on egalitarian values, but over the last 20 years they have increasingly adopted market-led reforms of education. The extent of neo-liberal policy varies between the countries. Denmark and Norway have remained more hostile toward such policies, thus protecting th…
Education and Social Integration
This book traces national policies behind the efforts of integrating education systems in Europe. Based on a wide-ranging historical analysis, this book offers the first fully comparative explanation
Political and Cultural Nationalism in Education. The ideas of Rousseau and Herder concerning national education
L'auteur confronte ici les idees opposees de Rousseau et de Herder dans la definition du concept de Etat-Nation, l'un lui donnant une tournure politique et institutionnelle et l'autre le presentant comme une communaute linguistique heterogene dont le caractere culturel s'opposait nettement a la definition politique de Rousseau. L'auteur fait ainsi naitre une definition de la notion de nationalite en rapport avec l'education
Private Schools and the Provision of 'Public Benefit
Legislative changes and a recent court ruling allow private schools in England and Wales to determine how to provide the public benefits required to justify their charitable status. We investigate how private school headteachers and other informed stakeholders perceive their public benefit objectives and obligations. We find that schools interpret public beneficiaries widely to include one or more of state school pupils, local communities, other …
Free Schools in England
The aim of this article is to investigate the argument that choice and competition will unleash entrepreneurial innovation in free schools. Free schools were introduced as a subset of the Academies by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, following the general election in 2010. The government made it possible for non-state providers to set up their own independent, state-funded schools in order to create more choice, competition…
Political and Cultural Nationalism in Education. The ideas of Rousseau and Herder concerning national education
L'auteur confronte ici les idees opposees de Rousseau et de Herder dans la definition du concept de Etat-Nation, l'un lui donnant une tournure politique et institutionnelle et l'autre le presentant comme une communaute linguistique heterogene dont le caractere culturel s'opposait nettement a la definition politique de Rousseau. L'auteur fait ainsi naitre une definition de la notion de nationalite en rapport avec l'education
Education and Social Integration
The purpose of this article is to outline a framework of explanation of the unique tradition of comprehensive schooling in Scandinavia. All the countries developed an all-through system of education from grade one to nine/ten with mixed ability classes for nearly all. This all-through system of education is a product of a long historical development. It will be argued that four factors shaped this development: strong state involvement, a relative…
Social Class Formation and Educational Participation
By using the middle school as a link between elementary and secondary education, Scandinavian countries were able to develop ladders of opportunity much more rapidly than the other countries in this study. As we saw in the previous chapter, the considerable degree of state involvement in education in these countries certainly acted as a necessary condition for this development. However, state intervention in schooling cannot be seen as a sufficie…
The Conglomerate Education System
One of the results of centuries of state building in Europe was the establishment of national education systems in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These systems comprised various organizational forms of public primary and secondary schools that preconditioned the possibilities for the development of unified single structures in the late nineteenth century. Systems of primary schools were incrementally consolidated through, in …
Conclusion
The previous chapters have tested various historical hypotheses about the factors that may have promoted or retarded the development of educational ladders, and thereafter comprehensive school systems, in five European states. On the basis of these analyses it is possible to put forward a comparative explanation of the uneven development of comprehensive education in Scandinavia, on one hand, and Germany and England, on the other. These keywords …
Liberal Politics
The introduction of the middle school, as we have seen, represented an important milestone in the development of the ladder system of education in Scandinavia. A powerful explanation for the origins of this development may be found in the role that the liberal parties played in its introduction. The liberal parties sought to use education as a means for creating “class circulation” or, in modern terminology, social cohesion. This, they believed, …
Social Democratic Politics
During the twentieth century the advancement of comprehensive schooling became the core of Scandinavian educational policy. The school systern, which comprised the elementary school, the middle school, and the upper secondary school, was subjected to major reforms that ultimately made its compulsory part fully comprehensive—a nine-year unselective system combining the elementary and middle school, with mixed ability classes throughout. Dissatisfa…
The Uneven Development of Comprehensive Education in Scandinavia, Germany, and England
The comprehensive school has been proclaimed “dead” by many commentators and politicians, particularly in the English-speaking countries (Franklin and McCulloch, 2007). Where not officially discarded, the idea and the term have often been quietly forgotten. So, why return now to this relic of the past, which in many countries is no longer the cynosure of politicians and policy-makers? Why should we be concerned with this supposedly outmoded idea,…
Comprehensive Education Consolidated
This chapter investigates the continuing impact of social democracy on the development of comprehensive education in the period after the Second World War. As will be seen, forms of social democracy continued to develop in all the countries under investigation here, either in the classic mode of social democratic parties, as in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, or in the particular laborist and liberal mutations found in Britain. Here Labor…
Education and Social Integration
This book traces national policies behind the efforts of integrating education systems in Europe. Based on a wide-ranging historical analysis, this book offers the first fully comparative explanation
Neo-liberalism and universal state education
This article investigates neo-liberal policy on education in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Traditionally, the edifice of the education system in these Scandinavian countries has been built on egalitarian values, but over the last 20 years they have increasingly adopted market-led reforms of education. The extent of neo-liberal policy varies between the countries. Denmark and Norway have remained more hostile toward such policies, thus protecting th…
A Social Democratic Response to Market-Led Education Policies
Teachers Unions in the Nordic Countries
Teacher unions in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) were once exceptionally powerful, a situation facilitated by the corporatist political system and the social democrats – the largest political party. However, corporatist governance and social democracy have weakened over the last three decades, which has reduced teacher unions’ influence on national policy formulation and diminished their bargaining power. Nevertheless, te…
The Comparative Politics of Education
Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a coherent, thriving field on the comparative politics…
Private Schools and the Provision of 'Public Benefit
Legislative changes and a recent court ruling allow private schools in England and Wales to determine how to provide the public benefits required to justify their charitable status. We investigate how private school headteachers and other informed stakeholders perceive their public benefit objectives and obligations. We find that schools interpret public beneficiaries widely to include one or more of state school pupils, local communities, other …
Free Schools in England
The aim of this article is to investigate the argument that choice and competition will unleash entrepreneurial innovation in free schools. Free schools were introduced as a subset of the Academies by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, following the general election in 2010. The government made it possible for non-state providers to set up their own independent, state-funded schools in order to create more choice, competition…
The Politics of School Choice in Scandinavia
Since the 1980s, Scandinavian countries have pursued performance‐oriented education, yet only Sweden and Denmark adopted school choice reforms—while Norway stood apart by not introducing it. Sweden pioneered school choice reform in 1992, which included provisions for a universal voucher system and free schools. Denmark followed suit with the 2005 Free School Choice Act, allowing choice within the public‐school sector in addition to private option…
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