In 1980, Norway celebrated the 250th anniversary of the introduction of compulsory elementary education. From the beginning of the twentieth century, education in Norway was recogniced as a way of reducing injustice in society. This is a book about the change in eduction; specifically about changes in conseption of equity, manifested over the last two decades in the ideological shift from an "equity through equality" perspective to one of "equity through diversity". With references and index.
