Wiborg, S;
Larsen, KR;
(2017)
Why School Choice Reforms in Denmark Fail: The Blocking Power of the Teacher Unions.
European Journal of Education
, 52
(1)
pp. 92-103.
10.1111/ejed.12203.
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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.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Why School Choice Reforms in Denmark Fail: The Blocking Power of the Teacher Unions |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1111/ejed.12203 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12203 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Denmark, municipalities, school choice, teacher unions, vestedinterests |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542449 |
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