In Sweden a new 'third way' welfarist society has led to the education system being exposed to market forces and successive waves of privatisation and this new commercial education can be characterised as a commodity in the market place. The schools have been transformed from being amongst the most highly regulated education systems in the world to being amongst the least regulated. Education and the commodity problem uses ethnographic research to investigate and describe what is often termed a changed root-metaphor of schooling in Sweden. Here control over the curriculum has changed from the...
In Sweden a new 'third way' welfarist society has led to the education system being exposed to market forces and successive waves of privatisation and...
Karen Borgnakke, Marianne Dovemark, Sofia Marques da Silva
In the last two decades the teaching profession has increasingly lost autonomy and become subject to political change that has introduced a market orientation to both educational organisation and culture. The stages that the teaching profession has gone through can be characterised as: pre-professional; autonomy; collegial and the post-professional age. This book explores both the Anglo-American curriculum tradition and the central European ╘didactic-tradition╒ which have had an impact on these processes. Against this backdrop, the book provides an international overview as well as...
In the last two decades the teaching profession has increasingly lost autonomy and become subject to political change that has introduced a market ...
