Inequality, Education, and Social Exclusion in the Welfare State Pedagogical Responses From the Nordic Countries

Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people.

About the author

Kirsten Elisa Petersen, PhD is Associate Professor and Director of Research programme Social Exclusion and Pedagogy in the Welfare State (SEP), Aarhus University, Denmark.
Niels Rosendal Jensen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Educational Sociology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Product details

• Assisted by: Niels Rosendal Jensen (Editor), Kirsten Elisa Petersen (Editor)
• Authors: Kirsten Elisa (Aarhus University Petersen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 08.08.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781032749860
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274986-0
• Pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
• Subjects: EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Medicine, MEDICAL / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Social Work, Social discrimination & inequality, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Medicine and Nursing, Social discrimination and social justice, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics