The Social Context of Educational Planning in Iceland

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Edelstein, Wolfgang (1971). The Social Context of Educational Planning. Scand. J. educ. Res. 15, 169‐191. Educational planning in Iceland as anywhere has to provide answers to problems of administration, development, and innovation. Practical reasoning, information seeking, and the ‘dialogue form’ of the planning process are stressed in view of the particular obstacles to educational planning in Iceland: smallness of system, tradition of government through face‐to‐face interaction, and extreme rates of change in the interrelated processes of urbanization, regional mobility, occupational shift, and socio‐cultural transformation. The change from the family‐based rural mode of growing up to modern formal education has occurred with the suddenness of a generation shift, leaving urbanized parents of city‐born children with the unapplicable child‐rearing models of their rural grandparents. The social‐psychological states connected with these modes of growing up are discussed in terms of interactionist socialization theory. Objectives for educational planning are inferred.

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