Finland has it all?: Examining 'Finnish PISA success' as a multiaccentual sign in Australia, Germany, and South Korea

Keita Takayama; Florian Waldow; Youl-Kwan Sung

Abstract

Since Finland emerged as one of the top performing nations in the OECD's PISA in the early 2000s, Finland has undergone a dramatic shift in its international recognition, from a country that 'rarely appeared on anyone's list of the world's most outstanding education systems' (OECD, 2011, p.118) to the country that has 'the school system that is grabbing the headlines' (Fogarty, 2011, p.20). In this context of the global media attention to Finnish PISA success, this study examines how the representation of 'Finnish education' is variously taken up by the media in Australia, Germany, and South Korea.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association - Sydney, Australia Duration: 2 Dec 2012 → 6 Dec 2012

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Conference	WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association
City	Sydney, Australia
Period	2/12/12 → 6/12/12

Keywords

Primary Education (excl Maori)
Secondary Education

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Takayama, K., Waldow, F., & Sung, Y.-K. (2012). Finland has it all? Examining 'Finnish PISA success' as a multiaccentual sign in Australia, Germany, and South Korea. Abstract from WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association, Sydney, Australia. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12095

Takayama, Keita ; Waldow, Florian ; Sung, Youl-Kwan. / Finland has it all? Examining 'Finnish PISA success' as a multiaccentual sign in Australia, Germany, and South Korea. Abstract from WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association, Sydney, Australia.

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Finland has it all? Examining 'Finnish PISA success' as a multiaccentual sign in Australia, Germany, and South Korea. / Takayama, Keita; Waldow, Florian; Sung, Youl-Kwan.
2012. Abstract from WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association, Sydney, Australia.

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Takayama K, Waldow F, Sung YK. Finland has it all? Examining 'Finnish PISA success' as a multiaccentual sign in Australia, Germany, and South Korea. 2012. Abstract from WERA/AARE/AREA 2012: World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, within Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association, Sydney, Australia.