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Christer Larsson – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2023
This article proposes and discusses a theoretical framework that combines elements from critical policy sociology and discourse theory to study enactments of policy for research-based music teaching in three Swedish policy contexts. Sweden, being the first country to incorporate legal demands for research-based education into its Education Act in…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Professionalism, Discourse Analysis
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Bardel, Camilla; Erickson, Gudrun; Granfeldt, Jonas; Rosén, Christina – Language Teaching, 2017
Since 2008, the Swedish government has launched occasional offers of funding for graduate schools aimed at practising teachers. The fundamental purpose of this initiative is to enhance quality in the Swedish school system by implementing what is stated in the Education Act, namely that education at all levels should be based upon scientific…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Educational Finance, Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries
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Hansson, Kristina; Erixon, Per-Olof – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
In 2010, the Swedish Education Act introduced new provisions stating that education at all levels should 'rest on scientific grounds and proven experience'. These requirements led to greater policy activities at the state level and enhanced the cooperation emerging between the municipality and higher education as well as between teachers and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Municipalities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Kotzmann, Jane – Oxford University Press, 2018
A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976. Yet the world has changed significantly since the ICESCR was drafted. State legislation and policies have generally followed a neoliberal trajectory, shifting the perception of higher…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, State Policy