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Cultivating Excellence in Education

A Critical Policy Study on Talent

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  • © 2019

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  • Addresses an emerging issue in the global policy agenda
  • Offers rich empirical data covering both sociology and history of education
  • Demonstrates how education policy analyses connect at global, national and local levels

Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 12)

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This book critically analyses the current education political strategy of cultivating excellence in education. It shows how the new policy for selecting talented students in Denmark deconstructs the compromise from which the comprehensive school was built and reduces equal opportunities. It discusses how the current practice of measurement, selection and guidance of talented students brings about significant changes in education policies, in pedagogic practices, a restructuring of school organisations, and changed requirements of teachers. It explains how the internal differentiation of education systems based on self-selection and free choice, but also on new assessment techniques, tends to widen the inequality gap between students. The analysis clearly shows the relationship between the circulation of new ideas and normative frameworks at international level, and their transfer into national policies, while situating these developments in a socio-historical perspective. Thebook illustrates by means of a concrete case study with important empirical data that demonstrate the reality and influence of this new policy on the day-to-day work of teachers.


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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Annette Rasmussen, Christian Ydesen

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