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Structural Injustices in Swedish Education

Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Beach

    1. Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  • 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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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Myth of Swedish Education Equity

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 1-32

  3. Education Differentiation Within Contemporary Globalization: A Meta-ethnographic Analysis of the Conferral of Power and Status in Modern Education Systems

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 33-69

  4. Performativity, Creativity and Personalised Learning

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 71-100

  5. Twelve Years of Upper-Secondary Education in Sweden: The Beginnings of a Neo-Liberal Policy Hegemony?

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 101-131

  6. Social Class Stereotypes in Upper-Secondary School

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 133-162

  7. Higher Education Expansion and Student Choices: A Critical Analysis

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 163-195

  8. A Meta-ethnography of Research on Education Justice and Inclusion in Sweden with a Focus on Territorially Stigmatised Areas

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 197-233

  9. Education Markets and Inequalities

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 235-265

  10. Conclusions: Reconsidering Sweden’s International Contemporary Recognition and Historical Standing in Regard to Matters of Educational Justice and Equity

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 267-303

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 305-346
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Dennis Beach

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.

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