Evaluating Education in Greenland

How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models?

Authors

  • Merete Watt Boolsen Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v16i3.16255

Keywords:

Education, Evaluation, Evaluation models, Greenland

Abstract

Education plays an unquestionable role in society. Various sociological models of what education does, how it works and the problems involved explain why it constitutes a battleground for potential social and political conflict. How education is measured or evaluated is equally conflict material. In the present article, traditional evaluation models are applied in a somewhat atypical context: Greenland. Here, the government launched an ambitious education reform in 2005 aimed at increasing both the level and quality of education. The results of the evaluations have been ‘disappointing’ thus far – the reform has failed. The article begins by presenting different evaluation models applied in the Greenlandic context (program and summative evaluations). Second, a discussion of findings covering the initial period 2005‒10. Finally, a change in evaluation strategy is suggested with Michael Quinn Patton’s developmental evaluation model. Is it fair, relevant or constructive to examine education in Greenlandic society through the evaluation lens from a European society?

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Author Biography

Merete Watt Boolsen, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

Merete Watt Boolsen, Associate Professor and Doctor in Sociology at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has been working with a variety of areas (social welfare, crime and criminals, equality issues and education) – often through methodological lenses. During the past years evaluation of education in Greenland has been on the research agenda.

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Published

2012-09-15

How to Cite

Boolsen, M. W. (2012). Evaluating Education in Greenland: How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 16(3), 65–82. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v16i3.16255

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