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Hardy, Ian; Rönnerman, Karin; Beach, Dennis – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This paper analyses recent educational reforms on teachers' work in Sweden following the 2010 Education Act, and up to the School Commission Report released in April 2017. We draw upon key policy texts and associated documents from the Ministry of Education, and the Swedish National Agency for Education ("Skolverket"). We consider the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
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Beach, Dennis; Bagley, Carl – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
Research suggests that certain common policy presuppositions can be identified regarding teacher education programmes in advanced knowledge-based economies, most notably the relationship between formal education (schooling) and economic production, and the role of teacher education in respect to this relationship. This article draws on the work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education, Teacher Role
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Beach, Dennis; Dovemark, Marianne – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This article uses ethnographic research from two Year 8 classes in two middle-sized secondary schools about a kilometre apart in a Swedish west-coast town to examine how new policies for personalised learning have developed in practice, in the performative cultures of modern schools in a commodity society. One school stands in a predominantly…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy