This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed
discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors
across 28 chapters it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education
system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric myths and
commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling. This book draws on the fields of
sociology of education education policy urban studies and policy sociology. It makes use of
a range of research methodologies including ethnography case study and discourse analysis and
references the work of relevant theorists including Bourdieu and Foucault. This book aims to
provide a critical updated and astute analysis of the strengths and challenges of the Finnish
education system.
