Metaspace: a Conceptual Tool to Capture the Nordic

TY - CHAP

T1 - Metaspace

T2 - a Conceptual Tool to Capture the Nordic

AU - Krejsler, John Benedicto

N1 - John Benedicto Krejsler is Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. His research on ‘New conditions for (pre-)school and teacher education – in a transnational perspective’ brings together a focus on education policy and ensuing new conditions for producing ’truths’ & social technologies to organize and manage education. He has published extensively in English and Danish in particular, but also in Swedish, Norwegian and French, and sits on a number of editorial boards. Furthermore, he has a passionate interest in theory development, and has written on the work of Deleuze, Foucault and Baudrillard among others. He was President of the Nordic Educational Research Association (2019-2022) and council member of the European Educational Research Association (2009-2018 + 2022- ). He was a Visiting Professor at Kristianstad University (Sweden) (2009-2010), Visiting Scholar at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (2015-2016) and at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Scotland)(2023). He has a background as a teacher educator and a school teacher. [email protected] /

PY - 2024/8/8

Y1 - 2024/8/8

N2 - The article argues that observing ‘the Nordic dimension’ as a metaspace in methodological terms harbors rich potentials for qualifying educational research, policy, and debate. The metaspace gathers critical mass through aggregating the potentials of smaller spaces. The five Nordic countries thus represent historical, linguistic, and societal similarities that produced similar societal and educational values, albeit along different trajectories. Understood as a floating signifier in scalar and topological terms, the Nordic dimension allows researchers to draw on the diversity that this metaspace represents as a tool for rethinking national solutions. The article draws on educational research and literature with a Nordic focus.

AB - The article argues that observing ‘the Nordic dimension’ as a metaspace in methodological terms harbors rich potentials for qualifying educational research, policy, and debate. The metaspace gathers critical mass through aggregating the potentials of smaller spaces. The five Nordic countries thus represent historical, linguistic, and societal similarities that produced similar societal and educational values, albeit along different trajectories. Understood as a floating signifier in scalar and topological terms, the Nordic dimension allows researchers to draw on the diversity that this metaspace represents as a tool for rethinking national solutions. The article draws on educational research and literature with a Nordic focus.

KW - Nordic dimension

KW - metaspace

KW - comparative education

KW - education reform

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85198110237&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781032694252-4

DO - 10.4324/9781032694252-4

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781032674537

T3 - Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

SP - 27

EP - 43

BT - Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education

A2 - Krejsler, John Benedicto

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -