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Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketisation.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Market forces in Swedish education
Magnus Dahlstedt & Andreas Fejes
Section 1: School choice, inequality and segregation
Chapter 2: Public schools’ market strategies
Håkan Forsberg & Mikael Palme
Chapter 3: Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants
Dennis Beach & Marianne Dovemark
Chapter 4: Consequences of free school choice and local responses
Viktor Vesterberg & Magnus Dahlstedt
Section 2: Market forces and changing views on education
Chapter 5: Market reforms in Sweden and the OECD
Anders Trumberg
Chapter 6: Representations of a school in constant crisis
Eva Reimers
Chapter 7: ‘Market relevance’ and the academic-vocational divide
Mattias Nylund
Chapter 8: Fostering entrepreneurial citizens
Magnus Dahlstedt & Andreas Fejes
Chapter 9: Neoliberalising adult education
Marie Carlson & Bengt Jacobsson
Section 3: Competition and business logic
Chapter 10: A stimulating competition in the upper secondary school market?
Ann-Sofie Holm & Lisbeth Lundahl
Chapter 11: Procurement as a market in adult education
Andreas Fejes & Diana Holmqvist
Chapter 12: School fairs as the market place of education
Martin Harling
Chapter 13: Swedish school companies going global
Linda Rönnberg
Section 4: Competition and evaluation
Chapter 14: School inspection and the market
Sara Carlbaum
Chapter 15: Trust-based evaluation in a market-oriented school system
Jonas Vlachos
Chapter 16: Lessons from Sweden
Andreas Fejes and Magnus Dahlstedt
About the author
Magnus Dahlstedt is Professor of Social Work at Linköping University in Sweden. His research interests concern citizenship in times of migration, market orientation, welfare and social policy changes, and democracy.
Andreas Fejes is Professor and Chair of Adult Education Research at Linköping University in Sweden. His research interests concern the marketization of adult education; migration, learning and social inclusion; citizenship education; and bibliometric studies in education.
Summary
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketisation.
