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Specialised Music Classes in Comprehensive Education: A Case Study of the Swedish Shift from Social-Democratic Uniformity to Neoliberal Diversity
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Lilliedahl, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
The following article examines the emerging historical legitimacy of specialised comprehensive schools in Sweden. During the 1980s, neoliberal ideas were gaining ground in Swedish educational policy. As a result, the social democratic government began to relax the rigour of the unified, state-regulated educational system. Specialised music classes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Music Education, Neoliberalism
What Price Free Schools? The Continued Insidious Privatisation of UK State Education
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Kitchener, David – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
A review of American charter schools and Swedish free-school research is outlined, providing strong evidence that both free-market models are flawed in their claims of enhancing young people's educational experience. A substantial body of work is included that strongly indicates charter and free schools increase social segregation and lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Experience, Free Schools
Popular Education in Times of Societal Transformation--A Swedish Perspective
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Gougoulakis, Petros; Christie, Michael – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
The aim of this philosophical and historical position paper is to discuss the ways in which Popular Education--folkbildning--has contributed to the social transformation of Sweden through self-directed and collaborative educational practices. One of our premises is that individual transformative learning, fostered by folkbildning, has contributed…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Popular Education, Foreign Countries, Social Change
Mediating School Inspection--Key Dimensions and Keywords in Agency Text Production 2003-2010
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Lindgren, Joakim; Hult, Agneta; Segerholm, Christina; Rönnberg, Linda – Education Inquiry, 2012
This paper reports on an analysis of how school inspection in Sweden -- its aims, directions and procedures -- is portrayed in texts produced by the responsible national authorities. The study involves a textual analysis of official annual accounts and plans (texts directed to the government, municipalities, schools and the public) produced by the…
Descriptors: School Visitation, Inspection, Governance, Foreign Countries
Early Childhood Curricula in Sweden from the 1850s to the Present
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Roth, Ann-Christine Vallberg – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article introduces the curriculum history of early childhood education in Sweden. The study is based on curriculum theory and gender theory. A broad curricular concept is used. The period analysed ranges from approximately the 1850s to the present day. Examples of key-texts analysed are National curricula, Handbooks, one journal (The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Guidelines, Young Children
Reading Cultures, Christianization, and Secularization: Universalism and Particularism in the Swedish History of Literacy
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Lindmark, Daniel – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2003
In the organization and ideology of the Lutheran state churches, Tim Knudsen has identified the roots of universalism in the Nordic welfare states. This article applies a similar perspective to the aims and contents of early modern Nordic popular education. Historiographically, universalism was emphasized by Egil Johansson, who recognized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction