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Enabling Welfare States and Educational Reform 4.0: The Case of Finland

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2023, (31), pp.1-44
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)
  • Received : May 30, 2023
  • Accepted : June 7, 2023
  • Published : June 30, 2023

Seo Hyeon Su 1

1한국교원대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Alongside the advance of the Post-COVID era, it is demanded to build a future-oriented education system addressing multiple crises and challenges posed by late-modern transformation of the societal structure. This article explores the features and implications of the Finnish education model, which is regarded as an international example of innovation in both responding to the pandemic crisis and transitioning to a Post-COVID regime. During the late 20th Century, Finland could succeed in developing a consensual democracy, a coordinated market economy based on societal corporatism, and a Nordic-type universal welfare state. The country is now evolving into an enabling welfare state, pioneering a specific vision of ‘The Fourth Way’ of educational innovation that goes beyond neo-liberal global education reform movements. Based on the conceptual framework combining theories of enabling welfare states and educational reform 4.0, this article presents a systemic analysis of the Finnish education model, focusing on the comprehensive school reform, innovations in special education system, changes of the teacher education scheme, and new approaches towards the National Core Curriculum.

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