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Forsberg, Sara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper takes an interest in migrant families' educational strategies in the upper-secondary school market in Stockholm. Based on interviews with parents and children in families living in a socially and economically disadvantaged neighbourhood, the analysis shows how conversion of symbolic and economic capital and assets between…
Descriptors: Migrants, School Choice, Secondary Schools, Family Attitudes
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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
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Eduardo Tapia – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Previous studies investigating how the school choice paradigm shapes school segregation have found that students' ethnic school preferences drive school segregation by leading students to rank and change current schools following ethnic homophily orientations. This study investigates an intermediate moment in which these preferences contribute to…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Educational Change, Grade 9, High School Students
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Hanna Sjögren – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Based on arguments about the need for greater individual freedom, school choice was introduced in Sweden in the 1990s. Swedish municipalities now set up local school choice systems, whose organization varies between municipalities. This study is based on interviews with three politicians and two civil servants from two average-sized municipalities…
Descriptors: School Choice, Municipalities, Preschool Education, Grade 1
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Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Haley, Aimee – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, School Choice
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Tapia, Eduardo – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Although previous studies have investigated the contribution of several components of the school choice paradigm to school segregation, one critical aspect has not received attention from segregation scholars: schools' priority rules, that is, the rules schools apply in case of oversubscription. We evaluate how three priority rules -- grade-based,…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Policy, School Segregation, Secondary School Students
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Põder, Kaire; Lauri, Triin – Journal of School Choice, 2022
Motivated by empirical reality of differences in the scope and meaning of school choice and private schooling this article focuses on the public demand for increasing diversity of educational options In Europe and the division of public and private provision in it. We aim to test self-interest and ideology-driven logics of education policy…
Descriptors: Private Education, Private Schools, School Choice, Ideology
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Ojala, Maria; Ekman Ladru, Danielle; Gustafson, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Due to the emergence of new forms of preschools and parents' increased freedom of choice regarding early childhood education, more research on parental preschool preferences is needed. Although preschool offers a seedbed for the development of knowledge and competencies, this development matures through interaction with parents. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Preschools, Mobile Educational Services
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Rasmussen, Annette, Ed.; Dovemark, Marianne, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2022
This work discusses how the complex relationship between welfare policies of equity and market efficiencies/deficiencies of education policies is handled in local practices. It offers contributions from the five Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland - and pays special attention to questions about access and diversity in…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Beach, Dennis – Educational Review, 2019
The current study investigated the spatial restructuring of the Swedish upper secondary school market over time, which happened as a consequence of school choice reform started in the early 1990s. The school choice reform enabled students to choose and attend schools (public or private) based on preference rather than residential area.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Equal Education, Secondary Education
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Varjo, Janne; Lundström, Ulf; Kalalahti, Mira – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
As one of the key elements of the Nordic welfare model, education systems are based on the idea of providing equal educational opportunities, regardless of gender, social class and geographic origin. Since the 1990s, Nordic welfare states have undergone a gradual but wide-ranging transformation towards a more market-based mode of public service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, School Choice, Equal Education
Henrekson, Ebba; Andersson, Fredrik O. – EdChoice, 2022
This report seeks to explore some of the reasons Sweden developed an independent school sector dominated by for-profit schools by drawing on prior scholarship and reports as well interview material from Swedish school entrepreneurs, researchers, and prior public representatives that helped create and implement the Swedish voucher program. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Proprietary Schools
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Westberg, Johannes; Larsson, Esbjörn – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This article analyzes how childcare vouchers were introduced in the context of the Swedish welfare state by examining vital political decisions from the prohibition of publicly funded private preschools in 1984 and onwards. Basing our argument on theories of political institutions and historical institutionalism, we argue that this remarkable…
Descriptors: Child Care, Decision Making, Preschools, Foreign Countries
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Ferry, Magnus; Lund, Stefan – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In the fields of both education and sport, the possession of capital and habitus influences an individual's lifestyles and choices, which in turn affects the social selection within these fields. In this article, we will study the Swedish system of school sports as an overlap between the fields of education and sport, and thus viewed as a double…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Athletics, Team Sports
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Giota, Joanna; Bergh, Daniel; Emanuelsson, Ingemar – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2019
The study investigated student experiences of teaching practices in grade 9 at 2003, 2008 and 2014 after the Swedish education reforms of the 1990s. Teaching practices in both municipal and independent schools were related to student achievement and family background. Data from three nationally representative cohorts within the ongoing Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, School Choice
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