Hannu Simola
Biographic Data
| ID | 526624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannu Simola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannu |
| FAMILY NAME | Simola |
| SIGNATURE | SIMOLA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Five decades of persistent decontextualisation of academic teacher education in Finland
Aiming at constructive criticism, this article analyses the historical development of Finnish teacher education from the perspective of decontextualisation. The article suggests that essential contexts for teacher education are daily schooling, the historically constructed structures of school, and finally the whole society. The results indicate that as an unintended consequence of the academisation of Finnish teacher education, the socio-histori…
The paradox of the education race
In this article, we experiment with the idea of combining path dependency, convergence and contingency in explaining Finnish distinctiveness in education policy and politics since the early 1990s. The focus of this article is on quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in comprehensive schooling. We elaborate on and contextualise the Finnish QAE model by analysing the particular and somewhat ambiguous ways in which global QAE practices have – or ha…
À contre-courant
Cet article tente d’associer les concepts de dépendance au sentier, de convergence et de contingence pour expliquer le caractère particulier de la politique éducative finlandaise depuis le début des années 1990. Il porte sur l’assurance-qualité et l’évaluation dans l’enseignement secondaire pour tous. L’explicitation et la définition de l’environnement du modèle finlandais d’assurance-qualité et d’évaluation se fondent sur l’analyse de différente…
Fabricating Quality in Education
The Effects of Power Mechanisms in Education
The aim of this article is to outline a theoretical framework for an empirical study focusing on the question of how schools from socio-culturally different areas face new governance and its power mechanisms. The authors' aim is to bring together Pierre Bourdieu's and Michel Foucault's approaches to power, capitalising at the same time on Risto Heiskala's recent synthesising theorisation of power. In terms of elaboration, the authors outline a fo…
National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland
This paper draws on a comparative study of the growth of data and the changing governance of education in Europe. It looks at data and the ‘making’ of a European Education Policy Space, with a focus on ‘policy brokers’ in translating and mediating demands for data from the European Commission. It considers the ways in which such brokers use data production pressures from the Commission to justify policy directions in their national systems. The s…
Quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in Finnish compulsory schooling
This article traces quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) developments in Finnish compulsory schooling. The central question is this: Is there a Finnish model of QAE? We conclude that it may be a rhetorical overstatement to speak about a specific Finnish 'Model' of QAE in a strong sense. However, neither is it valid to conclude that what happens in Finnish QAE merely reflects the unintended effects of radical decentralisation. The Finnish consen…
The Finnish miracle of Pisa
One of the recent tributes to the success of Finnish schooling was the PISA 2000 project report. As befits the field of education, the explanations are primarily pedagogical, referring especially to the excellent teachers and high‐quality teacher education. Without underrating the explanatory power of these statements, this paper presents some of the social, cultural and historical factors behind the pedagogical success of the Finnish comprehensi…
Shoots of revisionist 1 education policy or just slow readjustment? The Finnish case of educational reconstruction
Decentralization, goal steering, accountability, managerialism, evaluation, choice, competition and privatization are key terms in the international rhetoric of educational policy. However, in the historical traditions and cultural-social framework of various nations, this 'new' policy perspective takes a specific form and shape. In the Nordic countries, with their welfare state tradition which stresses equality in education as well as in other f…
Fermeture didactique, professionnalisation et savoir pédagogique dans la formation des enseignants
Cet article ne traite pas de la professionnalité des enseignants mais plutôt des tendances professionalisantes et des activités des formateurs d'enseignants. Il se propose d'analyser l'expérience finlandaise qui pourrait être considérée comme digne d'intérêt et unique dans une perspective internationale du fait que la formation des maîtres a été totalement prise en charge par l'université depuis les années 70. Le domaine de l'éducation sera consi…
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
Didactic closure
Professionalism and the Rationalism of Hopes
The starting points of this article are some preliminary findings for a study on Finnish government committee reports on education. Since the reforms of the 1970s, a curious confluence of both the decontextualisation and at the same time the rationalisation of goals appears to be one cornerstone of the official construction of modem comprehensive school teaching. The aim of this article is to introduce certain theoretical approaches that combined…
The Finnish miracle of Pisa
One of the recent tributes to the success of Finnish schooling was the PISA 2000 project report. As befits the field of education, the explanations are primarily pedagogical, referring especially to the excellent teachers and high‐quality teacher education. Without underrating the explanatory power of these statements, this paper presents some of the social, cultural and historical factors behind the pedagogical success of the Finnish comprehensi…
National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland
This paper draws on a comparative study of the growth of data and the changing governance of education in Europe. It looks at data and the ‘making’ of a European Education Policy Space, with a focus on ‘policy brokers’ in translating and mediating demands for data from the European Commission. It considers the ways in which such brokers use data production pressures from the Commission to justify policy directions in their national systems. The s…
The paradox of the education race
In this article, we experiment with the idea of combining path dependency, convergence and contingency in explaining Finnish distinctiveness in education policy and politics since the early 1990s. The focus of this article is on quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in comprehensive schooling. We elaborate on and contextualise the Finnish QAE model by analysing the particular and somewhat ambiguous ways in which global QAE practices have – or ha…
Shoots of revisionist 1 education policy or just slow readjustment? The Finnish case of educational reconstruction
Decentralization, goal steering, accountability, managerialism, evaluation, choice, competition and privatization are key terms in the international rhetoric of educational policy. However, in the historical traditions and cultural-social framework of various nations, this 'new' policy perspective takes a specific form and shape. In the Nordic countries, with their welfare state tradition which stresses equality in education as well as in other f…
Didactic closure
Quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in Finnish compulsory schooling
This article traces quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) developments in Finnish compulsory schooling. The central question is this: Is there a Finnish model of QAE? We conclude that it may be a rhetorical overstatement to speak about a specific Finnish 'Model' of QAE in a strong sense. However, neither is it valid to conclude that what happens in Finnish QAE merely reflects the unintended effects of radical decentralisation. The Finnish consen…
The Effects of Power Mechanisms in Education
The aim of this article is to outline a theoretical framework for an empirical study focusing on the question of how schools from socio-culturally different areas face new governance and its power mechanisms. The authors' aim is to bring together Pierre Bourdieu's and Michel Foucault's approaches to power, capitalising at the same time on Risto Heiskala's recent synthesising theorisation of power. In terms of elaboration, the authors outline a fo…
Professionalism and the Rationalism of Hopes
The starting points of this article are some preliminary findings for a study on Finnish government committee reports on education. Since the reforms of the 1970s, a curious confluence of both the decontextualisation and at the same time the rationalisation of goals appears to be one cornerstone of the official construction of modem comprehensive school teaching. The aim of this article is to introduce certain theoretical approaches that combined…
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
Professionalism and the Rationalism of Hopes
The starting points of this article are some preliminary findings for a study on Finnish government committee reports on education. Since the reforms of the 1970s, a curious confluence of both the decontextualisation and at the same time the rationalisation of goals appears to be one cornerstone of the official construction of modem comprehensive school teaching. The aim of this article is to introduce certain theoretical approaches that combined…
Didactic closure
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
Fermeture didactique, professionnalisation et savoir pédagogique dans la formation des enseignants
Cet article ne traite pas de la professionnalité des enseignants mais plutôt des tendances professionalisantes et des activités des formateurs d'enseignants. Il se propose d'analyser l'expérience finlandaise qui pourrait être considérée comme digne d'intérêt et unique dans une perspective internationale du fait que la formation des maîtres a été totalement prise en charge par l'université depuis les années 70. Le domaine de l'éducation sera consi…
Shoots of revisionist 1 education policy or just slow readjustment? The Finnish case of educational reconstruction
Decentralization, goal steering, accountability, managerialism, evaluation, choice, competition and privatization are key terms in the international rhetoric of educational policy. However, in the historical traditions and cultural-social framework of various nations, this 'new' policy perspective takes a specific form and shape. In the Nordic countries, with their welfare state tradition which stresses equality in education as well as in other f…
The Finnish miracle of Pisa
One of the recent tributes to the success of Finnish schooling was the PISA 2000 project report. As befits the field of education, the explanations are primarily pedagogical, referring especially to the excellent teachers and high‐quality teacher education. Without underrating the explanatory power of these statements, this paper presents some of the social, cultural and historical factors behind the pedagogical success of the Finnish comprehensi…
National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland
This paper draws on a comparative study of the growth of data and the changing governance of education in Europe. It looks at data and the ‘making’ of a European Education Policy Space, with a focus on ‘policy brokers’ in translating and mediating demands for data from the European Commission. It considers the ways in which such brokers use data production pressures from the Commission to justify policy directions in their national systems. The s…
Quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in Finnish compulsory schooling
This article traces quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) developments in Finnish compulsory schooling. The central question is this: Is there a Finnish model of QAE? We conclude that it may be a rhetorical overstatement to speak about a specific Finnish 'Model' of QAE in a strong sense. However, neither is it valid to conclude that what happens in Finnish QAE merely reflects the unintended effects of radical decentralisation. The Finnish consen…
The Effects of Power Mechanisms in Education
The aim of this article is to outline a theoretical framework for an empirical study focusing on the question of how schools from socio-culturally different areas face new governance and its power mechanisms. The authors' aim is to bring together Pierre Bourdieu's and Michel Foucault's approaches to power, capitalising at the same time on Risto Heiskala's recent synthesising theorisation of power. In terms of elaboration, the authors outline a fo…
Fabricating Quality in Education
À contre-courant
Cet article tente d’associer les concepts de dépendance au sentier, de convergence et de contingence pour expliquer le caractère particulier de la politique éducative finlandaise depuis le début des années 1990. Il porte sur l’assurance-qualité et l’évaluation dans l’enseignement secondaire pour tous. L’explicitation et la définition de l’environnement du modèle finlandais d’assurance-qualité et d’évaluation se fondent sur l’analyse de différente…
The paradox of the education race
In this article, we experiment with the idea of combining path dependency, convergence and contingency in explaining Finnish distinctiveness in education policy and politics since the early 1990s. The focus of this article is on quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) in comprehensive schooling. We elaborate on and contextualise the Finnish QAE model by analysing the particular and somewhat ambiguous ways in which global QAE practices have – or ha…
Five decades of persistent decontextualisation of academic teacher education in Finland
Aiming at constructive criticism, this article analyses the historical development of Finnish teacher education from the perspective of decontextualisation. The article suggests that essential contexts for teacher education are daily schooling, the historically constructed structures of school, and finally the whole society. The results indicate that as an unintended consequence of the academisation of Finnish teacher education, the socio-histori…
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