Why School Choice Reforms in Denmark Fail: The Blocking Power of the Teacher Union

Autor/inn/en	Wiborg, Susanne; Larsen, Kristina R.
Titel	Why School Choice Reforms in Denmark Fail: The Blocking Power of the Teacher Union
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 52 (2017) 1, S.92-103 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/ejed.12203
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; School Choice; Foreign Countries; Competition; Parent Attitudes; Municipalities; Unions; Politics of Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Ausland; Wettkampf; Elternverhalten; Magistrat; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Dänemark
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01