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- Asp-Onsjö, Lisa, 1951, et al.
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Styrning genom prov och betyg
- 2014
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Ingår i: Att lyckas i skolan. Om skolprestationer och kön i olika undervisningspraktiker. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 0436-1121. - 9789173468145 ; , s. 27-51
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- Dovemark, Marianne, 1952, et al.
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Förortens skola – Möjligheternas skola?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Utbildning & Lärande. - 2001-4554. ; 9:1, s. 62-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Loss of equivalence in Swedish education has been highlighted in both research and media. Arguably, one explanation for this is related to the free choice reform which has led to competition and homogenization of schools. In combination with peer effects and teachers’ different expectations this has led to a gap between schools in the way they adapt their marketing towards specific groups of students. Some students become more desirable than others. The polarization between “winners” and “losers” has thereby increased the importance of school selection with regards to learning outcomes and future educational life chances. This article focuses on students in Ash Public, a public upper secondary school located in a stigmatized immigrant suburb. The study is based on formal interviews, field interviews and observations, and contrary to its negative reputation, the school and its pedagogical practice were generally described in positive terms by the involved school actors. Teachers mentioned motivated and ambitious students and students described a school where they felt safe and included and where collaborativ
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- Dovemark, Marianne, 1952, et al.
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The Swedish School market, Space and School Premises.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Paper presented at Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, sept 15-17 Oxford..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the last decades Sweden has undergone a remarkable change from having a highly state-regulated school system to developing one of the most liberal and deregulated systems in the world. Not least, the transformation is apparent in the education sector, where reforms such as the implementation of free school choice, a generous voucher system and publically funded free-schools have paved the way for a highly competitive school market (Erixon Arreman & Holm, 2011a, 2011b). These have often been referred to as policies for ‘edu-busi¬ness’ (Ball 2007, p. 67). The development is particularly apparent at the upper secondary school level, where a “boom” of new independent schools, so called free-schools has occurred. During the school year 2012/13, more than one fourth (26%) of all upper secondary education students attended free-schools. The role of education within society has always been important but the function of the school architecture in that process is less obvious. Cold (2002b) points out that the school building or rather school facilities is more than a school. However, according to Björklid (2005), the physical environment is scarcely regulated in the Swedish Education Act, curricula and other ordinances. The aim of this paper is to shed light on how the school architecture is redesigned to match the overall school reorganisation within the ‘boom’ of new independent schools. A comparison with the former conventional architecture is also made. In the current paper, we discuss the educational environment in terms of (i) locations, (ii) common areas such as assembly halls and canteens (iii) premises as classrooms and (iv) external recreation spaces and surroundings. The data of the paper is assembled in Bay City by means of observations and interviews at open houses and upper secondary fairs. In addition text-analysis were carried out by reading upper secondary schools’ different marketing materials with focus on their descriptions of their premises. Our first tentative findings show a wide difference between the locations and the architecture among the schools. A conspicuous pattern is that a large number of independent schools use premises that are not built for education, such as former offices etc. The architecture allows certain kinds of pedagogical activities. The lack of access to common areas has reduced in-school opportunities for physical activity and healthful eating in favour of fast-food restaurants.
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- Erixon Arreman, Inger, 1954-, et al.
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Privatisation of public education? : The emergence of independent upper secondary schools in Sweden
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Ingår i: Journal of education policy. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. - 0268-0939 .- 1464-5106. ; 26:2, s. 225-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the upper secondary (or post-16) school market. The study on which it is based, funded by the Swedish Research Council, was entitled 'Upper-secondary education as a market'. Empirical data include official statistics, policy documents, school publications, company reports and school visits. Printed and other news media were also scrutinised to identify how the marketisation of education is represented in public discourse. A number of themes emerged from the study which included mapping the expansion of the school market, chains of ownership and influence, marketing strategies, choice and the school market and issues raised in the media. These imply that there is a new market discourse which represents a clear break with previous social democratic education policies primarily aimed at enhancing citizenship and wider democratic values within an inclusive public school. However, critiques have also emerged including a call for strengthened regulations of and control over independent schools and concern about an education market equated more with shares and profits rather than pedagogy and student citizenship. Keywords: upper secondary education; independent schools; Sweden; privatisation; marketisation; education funding; profit-maximisation; discourse
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- Erixon Arreman, Inger, et al.
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School as “Edu-business”: Four “serious players” in the Swedish upper secondary school market.
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - 2000-4508. ; 2:4, s. 637-664
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the early 1990s, Sweden experienced state policy reforms, which opened the way for new, private actors to run publicly funded independent schools. In 2010 the independent schools recruited almost a quarter of the upper secondary students. More than eight of the ten schools were managed by limited companies. Against this backdrop, and drawing on Ball (2007) and Whitfield (2006) who focus on policy trends of the transfer of public education (and other public services) to the private sector, this article explores and analyses current commercial trends in Swedish upper secondary education. The aims are to identify expansion trends inside and outside Sweden, including new trends of business formations. In the study four large actors were identified on the basis of official data, company reports, school and company websites and national and international media. The study indicates that the upper secondary education in Sweden has today become “big business”, or “edu-business” (Ball 2007:67). Keywords: upper secondary education, independent schools
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- Erixon Arreman, Inger, et al.
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Teachers' professional work and identities.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Paper presented at EERA conference, Porto, 2-5 September, 2014..
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- Holm, Ann-Sofie, 1959, et al.
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Diskurser om prestationer, begåvning och arbete.
- 2014
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Ingår i: I E Öhrn & A-S Holm (Red), Att lyckas i skolan. Om skolprestationer och kön i olika undervisningspraktiker.. - Göteborg : Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences 363.. - 0436-1121. - 9789173468138 ; , s. 79-101
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