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The Rhetoric of a Reform: The Construction of ‘Public’, ‘Management’ and the ‘New’ in Norwegian Education Reforms of the 1990s

2011; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 9; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2304/pfie.2011.9.5.631

1478-2103

Tom Are Trippestad,

Global Educational Policies and Reforms

This article presents a critical rhetorical analysis of the governing and reform ideology of the Norwegian school system of the 1990s. It uses Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies as a critical resource in the reading of the reforms, and discusses some of the consequences of the regime's models of leadership and public management for important pedagogical qualities of the school system.