A Nordic Exceptionalism and its variations in education reform processes. The case of Danish modern political history

Professor Dr. Mette Buchardt is historian of church, welfare state and education politics in a Nordic and European comparative perspective. She is the head of Centre for Education Policy Research, Aalborg University, Aalborg and Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a specialist in the relation between education-and social reform in the European states, with and emphasis and modernization and secularization, and on the influence of migration on welfare state development historically and at present.