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The research project intends to reconstruct a comparative view of basic education politics in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Our theoretical and methodological approach will seriously take up the challenge of unravelling the complexity, contingency and trans-nationality that characterise the educational systems of Nordic societies. Our main hypothesis is that the dynamics in the basic education system in each country are relative, but reflect the intertwinement of the dynamics from at least four focal perspectives: education policy-making and governance, family educational strategies and classroom cultures. If successful, this research project will open up various new horizons and will have an impact not only on education research but also on other fields of comparative historical sociology and politics. Pragmatically, it will open up avenues for both educational development and education consultancy and export.