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Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education 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 marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context of changes in education systems. With contributions from researchers across a wide range of scientific disciplines, the book provides examples of the consequences of market orientation in education in terms of increase in inequality as well as in terms of what the market orientation means for principals, teachers and students. It considers how Sweden has developed one of the most marketized education systems in the world and the possible consequences of such processes, as identified by research. Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education will be of great interest to educational practitioners, politicians, scholars in the field, and postgraduate and research students in education. 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. Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics The Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics series aims to enhance our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate within the influential and growing field of Education Policy and Politics. Books in the series include: Middle-Class School Choice in Urban Spaces The Economics of Public Schooling and Globalized Education Reform Emma E. Rowe Education and the Production of Space Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution Derek R. Ford Pedagogy in Poverty Twenty Years of Curriculum Reform in South Africa Ursula Hoadley The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance Louis Volante Academies and Free Schools in England A History and Philosophy of the Gove Act Adrian Hilton Risk Society and School Educational Policy Grant Rodwell Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education Lessons from Sweden Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Research-in-Education-Policy-and-Politics/book-series/RREPP Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education Lessons from Sweden Edited by Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes; individual chapters, the contributors The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dahlstedt, Magnus, 1975– editor. | Fejes, Andreas, 1977– editor. Title: Neoliberalism and market forces in education : lessons from Sweden / edited by Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019] | Series: Routledge research in education policy and politics | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018048231 (print) | LCCN 2018059948 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429470530 (E-book) | ISBN 9781138600881 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Education and state—Sweden. | Privatization in education—Sweden. | Education—Economic aspects—Sweden. | Neoliberalism—Sweden. Classification: LCC LC93.S85 (ebook) | LCC LC93.S85 .N46 2019 (print) | DDC 379.485—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018048231 ISBN: 978-1-138-60088-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-47053-0 (ebk) Typeset in Galliard by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of contributors vii List of figures x List of tables xi 1 Market forces in Swedish education 1 MAGNUS DAHLSTEDT AND ANDREAS FEJES SECTION 1 School choice, inequality and segregation 13 2 Public schools’ market strategies 15 HÅKAN FORSBERG AND MIKAEL PALME 3 Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants 33 DENNIS BEACH AND MARIANNE DOVEMARK 4 Consequences of free school choice and local responses 49 VIKTOR VESTERBERG AND MAGNUS DAHLSTEDT SECTION 2 Market forces and changing views on education 63 5 Market reforms in Sweden and the OECD 65 ANDERS TRUMBERG 6 Representations of a school in constant crisis 78 EVA REIMERS 7 ‘Market relevance’ and the academic-vocational divide 93 MATTIAS NYLUND vi Contents 8 Fostering entrepreneurial citizens 107 MAGNUS DAHLSTEDT AND ANDREAS FEJES 9 Neoliberalising adult education 123 MARIE CARLSON AND BENGT JACOBSSON SECTION 3 Competition and business logic 139 10 A stimulating competition at the Swedish upper secondary school market? 141 ANN-SOFIE HOLM AND LISBETH LUNDAHL 11 Procurement as a market in adult education 156 ANDREAS FEJES AND DIANA HOLMQVIST 12 School fairs as the market place of education 170 MARTIN HARLING 13 Swedish school companies going global 183 LINDA RÖNNBERG SECTION 4 Competition and evaluation 197 14 School inspection and the market 199 SARA CARLBAUM 15 Trust-based evaluation in a market-oriented school system 212 JONAS VLACHOS 16 Lessons from Sweden 231 ANDREAS FEJES AND MAGNUS DAHLSTEDT Index 235 Contributors Dennis Beach is Professor of Education at the University of Borås, Sweden and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His main research interests lie within the sociology of education and the use of ethnographic research in investigat- ing education justice. Sara Carlbaum is Associate Professor of political science at Umeå University in Sweden. Her research interests concern education policy and governing by marketization, school inspection and evaluation; migration; citizenship; juridi- fication of education; and student rights. Marie Carlson is Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are education, migration, gender/ethnicity, language and identity issues. She has participated in interdisciplinary projects with a special focus on adult education, migrants and citizenship. Magnus Dahlstedt is Professor of Social Work at Linköping University in Swe- den. His research interests concern citizenship in times of migration, market orientation, welfare and social policy changes and democracy. Marianne Dovemark is Professor in Education at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her main research interests concern the marketization of educa- tion and citizenship education. Theoretically, she belongs to a critical tradi- tion, methodological in critical ethnography. 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 educa- tion; and bibliometric studies in education. Håkan Forsberg is a member of SEC (Sociology of Education and Culture) and Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education at Uppsala University. His main research interest concerns social stratification in relation to school choice, marketization of education and migration. Martin Harling has a PhD in Pedagogic Practices and is currently working at the University of Gothenburg. His primary research interest covers marketization of education, equality and problems of inclusion/exclusion. viii Contributors Ann-Sofie Holm is Associate Professor in Education at Gothenburg Uni- versity in Sweden. Her main research field is the sociology of education with the focus on gender constructions in school, the marketization of upper secondary education and young students’ school choices and career learning. Diana Holmqvist is a doctoral student in Education and Adult Learning at Linköping University in Sweden. Her PhD research concerns the organiza- tion of adult education through procurement and how this might influence teacher’s work. Bengt Jacobsson holds a PhD in social anthropology and is a former researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. His research includes welfare state anthropology, migration and Indonesian ritual systems. Lisbeth Lundahl is Professor at the Department of Applied Educational Sci- ence at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research mainly concerns education politics and governance, young people´s school-to-work transitions and career development. Mattias Nylund is Assistant Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Goth- enburg in Sweden. His research interests concern vocational education, citizenship education and marketization of education, with particular focus on how education policy and praxis reflect and affect class and gender relations. Mikael Palme is a member of SEC (Sociology of Education and Culture) and associate professor and senior lecturer in sociology of education at Uppsala University. His research focuses on the social structure of Swedish education, on elite education and on international educational strategies. Eva Reimers is Professor of Educational Practice at the University of Goth- enburg, Sweden. Her research interests concern productions and effects of norms in education with a special focus on gender, sexuality, social class and neoliberalism. Linda Rönnberg is Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Educational Science at Umeå University and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Turku. She researches education governance, politics and policy with a focus on evaluation, inspection and marketisation/privatisation. Anders Trumberg is a Researcher in Human Geography at Uppsala and Örebro University in Sweden. His interests concern international, national and local school policies with the focus on market orientation, school choice and segregation Contributors ix Viktor Vesterberg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University in Sweden. His main research interests are learning in education and working life in relation to inclusion/exclusion and citizenship. Jonas Vlachos is Professor of Economics at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is mainly doing research in labor economics and the economics of education. His research interests include teacher supply, the impact of principals and the role of market forces in education.
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