Why School Choice Reforms in Denmark Fail: the blocking power of the teacher union
| Autor: | Susanne Wiborg, Kristina R. Larsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
Government 05 social sciences 050301 education School choice language.human_language Blocking (computing) 0506 political science Education Danish Power (social and political) Competition (economics) Politics Political economy 050602 political science & public administration language Economics 0503 education Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Education. 52:92-103 |
| ISSN: | 0141-8211 |
| Popis: | This article investigates why school choice is exercised to a limited degree by parents despite major government initiatives to enhance diversity, competition and choice in the Danish education system. Denmark has had 20 years of centre-right governments, promoting choice reforms perhaps even more vigorously than the other Nordic countries, yet school choice is seldom used – only 12% of parents choose a public school that differs from the one that is allocated to them. The literature on school choice in Denmark argues that this is primarily due to a general lack of parental interest because of the relatively high similarity across schools. In this article, we argue that the main reason is to be found in the politics of vested interests, namely municipalities’ persistent use of pupil assignment schemes supported by powerful teacher union branches at the local level. |
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