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- Beach, Dennis
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The public costs of the re-structuring of adult education : A case in point from Sweden
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Ingår i: The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. - : The Institute for Education Policy Studies. - 2051-0969 .- 1740-2743. ; 2:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present paper takes up a concrete example of education restructuring, that of adult education in Gothenburg, Sweden in recent years. This example has been studied through ethnographic data about changes to the supply of basic adult education – an education that is given to adults who have a school education below that provided by the compulsory school – and upper secondary adult education – an education at an approximately ‘A’ level and/or NVQ level. SFI education, Swedish for immigrants, has been focussed in particular. Sfi is important in relation to the restructuring in Gothenburg as this was initiated there first, based on decisions in the Gothenburg Municipal Council in 1999, near to the completion of the National Adult Education Initiative. The restructuring processes followed guidelines from the 1992 Purchasing Act and had consequences for all education suppliers, but in particular one of them, an adult education company called Studium Ltd, which was created in 2001 when the municipal adult education service (Komvux) was converted into a municipal company. Studium was the largest deliverer of adult education in 2001 but lost its contracts during tendering and is now on the brink of bankruptcy. From having had over 3000 sfi students in 2001, for which they were fully reimbursed, Studium now has less than 250 such students on role and a reduced budget for each student. As disclosed in a recent City Audit, the local tax-based economy footed the bill of the conversion processes and salary costs of under employed Studium employees. Public funds paying for the conversion of public services to private seems to be a consistent element of education restructuring according to international research.
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- Dahlström, Lars
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An autobiographical narrative towards Critical Practitioner Inquiry and a counter hegemonic southern network
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Ingår i: The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. - 2051-0969 .- 1740-2743. ; 14:1, s. 102-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is an autobiographical narrative to demonstrate how educational practices and ideas travel through time. It demonstrates how pedagogy based on solidarity and counter hegemonic ideas combined with scholastic perspectives build coherent practices in different social contexts. The work as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher in Sweden created an experiential and scholastic foundation for a critical pedagogical perspective that was further developed in the global South. The colonial spectres are still haunting the capitalist development paradigm as a cure against poverty and so called backwardness. Furthermore, the time when education was seen as an emancipatory activity has now been replaced by the entrepreneurial saints of individualism and marketizations. In spite of the present hegemonic perspectives there is room for counter hegemonic thinking and pedagogical practices struggling for a re-emancipatory and re-enlightening vision of pedagogy. Critical Practitioner Inquiry (CPI) is one such torch in the darkness. CPI as a situationally relevant and critical version of action research was moulded in the context of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa in the 1980s. It was further developed after Namibia's independence in 1990, transferred to Ethiopia after2002, applied in Lao PDR during the years up to 2011, and recently adapted to the situation in Afghanistan. The CPI concept has been developed and adapted to situations at hand still being faithful to its basic idea of a critical perspective and solidarity. CPI can thereby avoid the dogmatic and taken for granted approaches that commonly are the characteristics of western policy ensembles exported to the global South.
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- Frånberg, Gun-Marie, et al.
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The Rise and Fall of a Social Problem: Critical Reflections on Educational Policy and Research Issues
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Ingår i: The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. - 1740-2743. ; 10:2, s. 345-362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines a growing and distressing social phenomenon, namely, bullying, the historical developement, social dimensions, and political impact of which are taken into account and subjected to reflection and critical consideration. It describes both the progress of and problems with the concept of bullying. It also reflects on the research that has been done within the context of a specific research paradigm. The article ends by noting that the phenomenon still exists while the concept itself is no longer applied in Swedish laws or national curricula.
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