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Direct linkJenny Bengtsson; Johannes Lunneblad – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper explores how school community collaboration is given meaning by municipally employed coordinators whose task is to organise collaboration between schools and other actors in urban areas in Sweden. Inspired by Carol Bacchi's theorisation of the constitutive aspect of discerning problems, it examines how coordinators give meaning to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Urban Areas
Ali Osman; Anna Lund; Stefan Lund – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
The present paper delves into how symbolic boundaries in a school that is undergoing a desegregation process come to shape social boundaries of 'we-ness' and 'otherness'. The theoretical framework of the study starts from an interest in analysing whether symbolic and social boundaries emerge in new encounters during a desegregation process and…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Marianne Dovemark – Ethnography and Education, 2025
In November 2015, the Swedish Government claimed that the Swedish reception of refugees needed to change. The government presented among other things a time-limited law, TLUSE. An ethnographic study was conducted with a group of unaccompanied youth and the staff they encountered within a language introductory programme in a Swedish upper secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Federal Legislation, Youth
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Andreas Bergh; Eva Forsberg – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
The objective of this article is to explore differentiation of education through juridification. We examine changes in school governing, including trends towards globalization and marketization, as well as increased regulatory intervention in addressing complex social problems. Drawing on Luhmann's theory of functional differentiation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach, Equal Education
Metsämuuronen, Jari; Lehikko, Anu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of the article is to offer a base for discussions on educational equality from the viewpoint of changes in the world causing widening disparities between pupils and students. The essence and possibilities of educational equity and equality in the Nordic educational realm are discussed from six viewpoints. The outcome is that all children…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Alexander Jansson; Gunilla Brun Sundblad; Suzanne Lundvall; Johan R. Norberg – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
School grades are among the most common measurements used to analyze equality of outcome in education. Large or increasing 'gaps' in school grades between boys and girls and between students with different migration background are considered strong indicators of inequality. Based on students' school grades, several studies have shown that equality…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Migration, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education
Anders Trumberg; Emma Arneback; Andreas Bergh; Jan Jämte – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Swedish compulsory schools are committed to work for equality and social cohesion. Increasing school segregation, however, challenges this commitment. Based on survey data from Swedish municipalities, this article maps and analyses local initiatives that counteract school segregation. We identify three main types of initiatives--reinforcement,…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, Equal Education, Educational Change
Smeplass, Eli; Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Sperling, Katarina; Akse, Jannicke – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Childhood marginalization is the result of complicated processes that appears difficult to address for policymakers worldwide. Neo-institutional theory enables studies of the complexity of educational organizations, showing how they evolve in responses to their contradictory surroundings and generate unintended social inequality. Three Nordic…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Urban Areas, Social Problems, Equal Education
Muench, Richard; Wieczorek, Oliver; Dressler, Julian – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study seeks to explore the effect of tools of school governance advanced by the global reform agenda (1) on student performance and (2) on reducing the effect of sociodemographic variables on this performance. To do so, we compare two Nordic welfare states with an egalitarian tradition: Sweden and Finland. The Swedish school system has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Linda Berggren; Maria Waling; Cecilia Olsson – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Previous research indicates that head teachers in Sweden frequently fail to see school lunch as part of the educational activities of a school. This study contributes to an understanding of how head teachers in Sweden perceive and experience current national policy intentions related to school lunch. Design: Qualitative inquiry.…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, School Activities, Administrators
Karin K. Flensner; Ylva Svensson – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2024
The mission of all primary schools includes offering all pupils educational quality and equality. Municipalities struggle with the negative consequences of school segregation, and some local councils decide to implement extensive changes in their school organization to offer all pupils equal opportunities. This study analyzes the experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, School Closing, Consolidated Schools
Nordström, Malin Ekesryd – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022
The purpose of this article was to investigate the conditions for identifying gifted children in their first encounter with the Swedish school system, the preschool. Interviews were conducted with 10 preschool teachers and 5 principals about their conceptions of giftedness and challenges in meeting the needs of gifted preschoolers in practice. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Principals, Teacher Attitudes
Rosén, Maria; Arneback, Emma; Bergh, Andreas – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
The legal framing of national education systems has been subject to substantial change in the past decade, especially in Nordic countries. Earlier research has called for better understanding of the implications of these changes which, in turn, points to a need for conceptual development. With an emphasis on legal and education scholarly work,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, School Law, Equal Education
Engzell, Per; Raabe, Isabel J. – Sociology of Education, 2023
Why do inequalities in schooling persist, even in relatively egalitarian school systems? This article examines within school sorting as an explanation. We use classroom data on friendship networks in 480 European secondary schools and contrast comprehensive (England, Sweden) and tracked systems (Germany, Netherlands). Our question is to what…
Descriptors: Classification, Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Student Placement
