Transnational Forces in Dutch Educational Policies and Practices

This chapter discusses six transnational forces in Dutch education over the last 60 years. These forces were inspired for the larger part by a mix of elements with a societal background and by educational research studies: (1) New Public Management and the autonomy of schools’ governing bodies; (2) Striving for equity in education which led to fighting early stratification; (3) Designing education and specifically teaching based on evidence with a continuous debate on what counts as evidence; (4) Social constructivism as a source for inspiration of a new pedagogy in secondary education; (5) Th... Mehr ...