Overview
- Maintains that the dream of Swedish educational equality is more myth than reality
- Examines the Swedish education system using ethnographic and meta-ethnographic data and methodologies
- Reveals the structural injustices at the heart of the Swedish education system
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While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden’s education system – even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization – was never particularly equal. Instead, what became apparent was a system that offered advantages to the upper social classes under a sheen of meritocracy and tolerable inequalities. Combining ethnographic and meta-ethnographic methodologies and analyses, the author examines the phenomenon of structural injustice in the Swedish education system both vertically and diachronically across a period of intensive transformation and reform. This revealing volume offers a mode of engagement that will be of value and interest to researchers and students of injustices within education, as well as policy makers and practitioners.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dennis Beach is Professor of Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT at the University of Borås, Sweden. He is an International Fellow of Durham University, UK and Visiting Professor at Roehampton University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structural Injustices in Swedish Education
Book Subtitle: Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities
Authors: Dennis Beach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95405-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95404-2Published: 25 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07030-4Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95405-9Published: 17 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 346
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education