Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts: A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

The edited collection explores Nordic perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work, comparing attitudes across countries and highlighting the region's leadership in digital education. It offers up-to-date cases and future-oriented perspectives, with chapters based on empirical data and theoretical insights. The book is of global interest to students, researchers, and scholars in digital education, teacher education, and educational policy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited collection presents a comprehensive Nordic perspective on the heightened discussions surrounding digitalization and digital competence in the evolving trends of educational work. Employing a multidisciplinary and holistic approach, the book compares the attitudes of Nordic countries towards the digitalization of education and showcases the Nordic regions' position as pioneers in digital innovation within both European and global contexts. The book offers up-to-date cases and forward-thinking perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work. Each chapter utilizes empirical data derived from policy documents, interviews, and questionnaires to engage in nuanced discussions, theoretical frameworks, and implications for the future of digitalization in education.

Moreover, the book's reach extends far beyond its Nordic contexts, making it an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars engaged in digital education, teacher education, and educational policy and politics more broadly. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032409863