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Direct linkDiana Holmqvist – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
Management tools do more than manage and organise - they classify and contribute to the construction of education-as-concept. This article shows how tendering-based procurement, used by Swedish municipalities to outsource adult education to non-public providers, works to commensurate 'education' into measurable tender evaluation criteria. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Privatization, School Business Relationship
Sara Carlbaum; Joakim Lindgren; Malin Benerdal; Linda Rönnberg – Education Inquiry, 2024
National policies aiming at marketisation and privatisation in welfare sectors such as Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) require governance and organisation to be realised. In Sweden, the municipalities are key but largely under-researched organisers for preschool quasi-market infrastructures. This study explores the different ways in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Organizations
Anna Jobér – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools and municipalities. This study examines a growing rate of activities from companies and businesses…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Holmqvist, Diana; Fejes, Andreas; Nylander, Erik – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student's free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Education, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Haley, Aimee – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, School Choice
Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the COVID-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Andersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
The aim of this study is to analyse how formal adult education in Sweden is enacted locally. For this analysis, the data consist of a nationwide survey sent to Swedish municipalities, background data on municipalities from public statistics and interviews with representatives of 20 municipalities. Swedish formal adult education, which includes…
Descriptors: Marketing, Adult Education, Privatization, Municipalities
Ideland, Malin; Jobér, Anna; Axelsson, Thom – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article explores how a growing apparatus of edupreneurial actors offers solutions for the current 'school crisis' and how these commercial actors become taken for granted in the public school system. The Swedish case is interesting, as it involves a once-strong welfare state that is now associated with both the neoliberal discourse of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Entrepreneurship, Neoliberalism, Competition
Grannäs, Jan; Frelin, Anneli – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
Global trends inspired by neo-liberal tendencies have influenced developments in the Swedish school system. A flurry of educational reforms over the last decades have rapidly transformed the municipal school arena into a market in which independent, for-profit schools have expanded and school segregation has increased. This article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Educational Change, Educational Policy
