Publications

Seppänen, P., Kiesi, I., Lempinen, S. & Nivanaho, N. 2023. Businessing around comprehensive schooling. In Finland’s Famous Education System – Unvarnished insights into Finnish schooling, (Eds.) Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko ja Sonja Kosunen. Springer, 137 –153.

Candido, H. H. D., Seppänen, P., & Thrupp, M. (2023). Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland. European Educational Research Journal0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221140169

Nivanaho, N. & Thrupp, M. 2023. A Progressive Force in Finnish Schooling?: Finland’s Education Union, OAJ, and its Influence on School-Level Education Policy. In M. Thrupp, P. Seppänen, J. Kauko & S. Kosunen (Eds.), Finland’s famous education system – Unvarnished insights into Finnish schooling. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8241-5_4

Nivanaho, N., Lempinen, S. & Seppänen, P. 2023. Education as a Co-developed Commodity in Finland? A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis on Business Accelerator for EdTech Startups. Learning, Media and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2251391

Kiesi, I. 2023. Co-operation of edu-business and public schooling: is the governance of education in Finland shifting from the public sector to networks? In Finland’s Famous Education System – Unvarnished insights into Finnish schooling, (Eds.) Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko ja Sonja Kosunen. Springer, 155–172.

Kiesi, I., Luoto, L., Palonen, T. & Seppänen, P. 2023. Koulutusliiketoimintaverkosto Suomessa: Päällekkäisjäsenyysanalyysi. Kasvatus 54 (5), 464–480.

Lempinen, S. & Seppänen, P. 2021. Valtio koulutuksen kaupallisissa organisaatioissa. Teoksessa J. Varjo, J. Kauko & H. Silvennoinen (toim.) Koulutuksen politiikat. Kasvatussosiologianvuosikirja 3. Jyväskylä: Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura, 73–110.

Thrupp, M., Powell, D., O’Neill, J, Chernoff, S. & Seppänen, P. (2021). Private Actors in New Zealand Schooling: Towards an Account of Enablers and Constraints Since the 1980s. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-021-00194-4

O’Neill, J. & Powell, D. (2021). Charities and state schooling privatizations in Aotearoa New Zealand. In: A. Hogan & G. Thompson (Eds) Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education: How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Privatisation-and-Commercialisation-in-Public-Education-How-the-Public/Hogan-Thompson/p/book/9780367351441

Rönnberg, L., Benerdal, M., Carlbaum, S. & Holm, A-S (2021). The flow of public funding to private lactors in education: The Swedish case. In: A. Hogan & G. Thompson (Eds.). Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education: How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Privatisation-and-Commercialisation-in-Public-Education-How-the-Public/Hogan-Thompson/p/book/9780367351441

Seppänen, P., Thrupp, M. & Lempinen, S. (2021). Edu-business in Finnish schooling. In: A. Hogan & G. Thompson, (eds.) Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education: How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Privatisation-and-Commercialisation-in-Public-Education-How-the-Public/Hogan-Thompson/p/book/9780367351441

Skedsmo, G., Rönnberg, L. & Ydesen, C. (2021).  National Testing and Accountability in the Scandinavian Welfare States: Education Policy Translations in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. In: S. Grek, C. Maroy, A. Verger (Eds.). Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education. World Yearbook of Education 2021. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/World-Yearbook-of-Education-2021-Accountability-and-Datafication-in-the/Grek-Maroy-Verger/p/book/9780367856502

Seppänen, P., Lempinen, S., Nivanaho, N., Kiesi, I. & Thrupp, M. (2020). Edu-bisnes peruskoulussa: kohti ”eduekosysteemiä”. [Edubusiness in comprehensive schools: Towards an ‘eduecosystem’]. The Finnish Journal of Education 51 (2), 95–112. https://ktl.jyu.fi/en/publications/the-finnish-journal-of-education/kasvatus2_2020_abstracts.pdf

Thrupp, M., O’Neill, J., Powell, D. & Butler, P. (2020). Private actors in New Zealand schooling: the path to saturation. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1726882

Alexiadou, N., & Lundahl, L. (2019). The boundaries of policy learning and the role of ideas: Sweden, as a reluctant policy learner? In Beyond erziehungswissenschaftlicher Grenzen: Diskurse zu Entgrenzungen der Disziplin (pp. 63–77). Opladen: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e879/35ed50c5d5ad2c92a5e0d45a7ff4717f0c6a.pdf?_ga=2.26140157.1740806197.1599028781-1020895101.1599028781

Alexiadou, N., Lundahl, L. & Rönnberg, L. (2019). Shifting logics: Education and privatization the Swedish way. In: J. Wilkinson, R. Niesche & S. Eacott (Eds.) Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Challenges-for-Public-Education-Reconceptualising-Educational-Leadership/Wilkinson-Niesche-Eacott/p/book/9781138348226

Alexiadou, N. & Rönnberg, L. (2019). Global Ideas and Their National Embeddedness: The Case of Swedish Education Policy. In: K. Jones & A. Traianou (Eds.) Austerity and the Remaking of European Education Policy. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/austerity-and-the-remaking-of-european-education-9781350028487/

Lundahl, L. (2019). L’éducation en Suède,un secteur d’activité rentable. Revue internationale .d’éducation Sèvres, 82 (3), 66-76. https://doi.org/10.4000/ries.9142

Rönnberg, L. (2019). Swedish school companies going global. In M. Dahlstedt & A. Fejes (Eds.) Neoliberalism and market forces in education: Lessons from Sweden. London: Routledge (pp. 183-196). https://www.routledge.com/Neoliberalism-and-Market-Forces-in-Education-Lessons-from-Sweden/Dahlstedt-Fejes/p/book/9780367660826

Rönnberg, L., Lindgren, J. & Lundahl, L. (2019). Education governance in times of marketization: The quiet Swedish revolution. In R. Langer & T.  Brüsemeister (Eds.) Handbuch Educational Governance Theorien. Dordrecht: Springer (pp. 711-728). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-22237-6_31

Lundahl, L., Arnesen, A-L., & Jónasson, J. T. (2018). Justice and marketization of education in three Nordic countries: Can existing large-scale datasets support comparisons? Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, Vol. 4 (3), 120-132.

Seppänen, P. (2018). Koulutuspolitiikka vertailevassa ja kansainvälisessä koulutustutkimuksessa. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 83 (4), 452–456. https://www.julkari.fi/handle/10024/137549

Lundahl, L. (2017). Marketization of the urban educational space. In W. T. Pink & G. W. Noblit (Eds). Second international handbook of urban education (pp. 671–693). Cham: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319403151

Rönnberg, L. (2017). From national policy-making to global edu-business: Swedish edu-preneurs on the move. Journal of Education Policy, 32(2) 234–249. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02680939.2016.1268725