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Säfström, Carl Anders,1960-Faculty of Social Sciences, Maynooth University, Ireland
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The marketisation of education and the democratic deficit
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2021-04-26
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Sage Publications,2021
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:sh-45261
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45261URI
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https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211011293DOI
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This article deals with the question of what has happened to ‘the public’ in the Swedish education system during the last three decades. In our search for an answer we illuminate and discuss how the process of marketisation, together with the learnification and individualisation of education, replaced ‘the public’ from public education with the logic of the market place. To shed some further light on the current discourse on Swedish education, we contrast two principles in education and teaching, the aristocratic principle and the democratic principle. According to the aristocratic principle, education is about fixating and reproducing existing power relations as the cornerstone of a well-ordered society. According to the democratic principle of education, equality is the cornerstone of a well-ordered democratic society. Considering the shift in the very infrastructure of the Swedish educational system, we arrive at the conclusion that the principles in education and teaching are characterised by the aristocratic principle, rather than those we have characterised as democratic principles. The educational message is clear: upcoming generations are to accept the rules of the market economy and play the game accordingly.
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Månsson, Niclas,1965-Södertörns högskola,Pedagogik(Swepub:sh)shnsmn19
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Maynooth University, IrelandPedagogik
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In:European Educational Research Journal: Sage Publications1474-9041
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