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Direct linkSamuelsson, Johan – Education 3-13, 2023
Historically, the Swedish school system has been designed to level out differences between pupils. There has also been scepticism about assessing pupils. However, new school reforms in Sweden centre on performance and tests. This article focuses on pupils (year 6) in Swedish elite schools and their perceptions of assessment. The pupils are in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools, High Achievement, Social Class
Voyer, Andrea – Ethnography and Education, 2019
School choice is associated with increased educational inequality and across-school segregation. This article documents the organisational practices and logics affecting school segregation and inequality. Through an institutional ethnographic study of principals' responses to school choice within the context of immigration in Malmö, Sweden, I find…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Principals, Equal Education
Harling, Martin; Dahlstedt, Magnus – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper aims to explore educational markets literarily -- in situ -- at quite unique 'real' market places, where buyers and sellers of educational commodities meet and negotiate values and preferences. Thus, the place we chose for this study was some of the 'school fairs' held in huge exhibition halls all over Sweden every year. At these fairs…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Competition, Exhibits, Secondary School Students
Rusten, Grete; Hermelin, Brita – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This study explores industry-education collaboration on vocational education and training (VET) in upper secondary schools in Sweden and Norway, with particular attention to the initiatives, organisation and operational management, and aspects of robustness and lock-in effects. The case studies include two upper secondary schools situated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Vocational Schools, Vocational Education
Alexandersson, Mikael – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
This article describes and analyses some crucial aspects in the latest reforms of Swedish upper secondary education. For decades Sweden stood out as a special case in several respects, in particular the integration of different tracks in upper secondary education; offering second chances to dropouts, and success in terms of equality and…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Secondary Education, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Hult, Francis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The position of English "vis-a-vis" Swedish in Sweden is gaining attention because of a growing concern that the encroachment of English in certain domains may result in Swedish losing ground. A current language policy proposal, entitled "Mal i mun," commissioned by the Swedish Government, addresses this concern, in part, by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Planning, Reputation, Foreign Countries
