Towards a New Education Regime: The Neo-liberal Turn in Swedish Education Policy (original) (raw)

Ålund, Aleksandra et al. (eds) Reimagineering the Nation: Essays on 21 Century Sweden

The focus of this paper is on the developments in Swedish education policy in the last two decades, following the lines of a neo-liberal economic re-orientation in Sweden, and its consequences for the democratic visions and realities of the education system. Focusing on the relationships between the goals of equality and equivalence, and the neo-liberal turn in Swedish education, we argue that the changes in the Swedish education system in the last two decades illustrate the effects of the priorities of the market principles that, when normalized in education, have created the foundation of the present divisions of school, educational options and outcomes for different students, along ethno-cultural/racial, gender, and class lines.

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