The Scandinavian countries currently face their largest ever wave of immigration. The immigration wave increases the need for immigrants to learn the host language to be able to participate in work life and become a citizen of the host country. Yet, the language training programmes -- 'Swedish for Immigrants' in Sweden have come under great…

Educational leadership in Sweden has reached a turning point. There is now a widespread acceptance of the fact that Sweden increasingly has many citizens whose origins and/or upbringing are non-European. In turn, the school has become a multicultural meeting place where previous assumptions about curriculum consensus and cultural order have been…

This study examined the educational situations of Swedish students whose parents were both born abroad, using data from the 1992 National Evaluation Programme. The evaluation involved 101 schools, with about 10,000 ninth graders. Students were categorized in the following manner: both parents born in Sweden, one parent born in Sweden and the other…