Structural Injustices in Swedish Education: Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities

Beach, Dennis

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-09-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319954042

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95405-9

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 346