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Direct linkCarlos Rojas; Wieland Wermke – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This article analyses the Swedish case of the government's funding for equity, which annually provides over 600 million euros to improve equity. Being one of the largest funding schemes ever for work towards educational equity it also provides full autonomy for local education authorities (LEAs) to use the money at their discretion. By studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Federal Government, Federal Aid
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Wieland Wermke; Ronny Freier; Daniel Nordholm – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article aims to undertake a comparative investigation of school administration to understand further the frames of curriculum making. School administration is an under-illuminated aspect of curriculum research. The paper commences from the notion that, in mass education, a school system is operationalized by many schools, which are coupled to…
Descriptors: School Administration, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, School Districts
Mette Liljenberg; Åsa Hirsh; Anette Jahnke; Åsa Karlsson Pérez – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In the decentralized Swedish school system, the local education authority (LEA) level has an important position when it comes to school governance. This article takes a micro-level perspective on principals' perceptions of autonomy and control as they navigate local school administration in their front-line work in low - socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment
Bergh, Andreas – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This article analyses a specific part of the actions taken to improve the quality of Swedish education, namely the expectations formulated in national policy documents for the quality work that local authorities, schools and teachers are supposed to undertake. For the empirical analysis of how these expectations have changed over the last two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Accountability, Educational Policy
Carlbaum, Sara – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article analyses and critically discusses how context is relevant when constructing and upholding an equivalent education for all within the neo-liberal educational regime of marketisation and accountability. At the centre of the article is a study of national school inspection reports in four municipalities in Sweden, exploring performance…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Inspection, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mons, Nathalie – Comparative Education Review, 2011
The literature on political socialization has overlooked the influence of system characteristics of schooling on civic values and youth political identities. This article addresses that gap by investigating the degree to which system differentiation relates to the values of ethnic tolerance and patriotism. We distinguish between pedagogical…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Public Education, Patriotism, Values
Holmgren, Mikael; Johansson, Olof; Nihlfors, Elisabet; Skott, Pia – Journal of School Public Relations, 2012
Sweden has recently seen three major political attempts to empower parents through national regulations--the transferal of authority from the state to district school boards, the heavy promotion of independent schools, and the introduction of local school boards at municipality schools. This article provides an overview of these developments by…
Descriptors: Democracy, Governance, Foreign Countries, Empowerment
Ronnberg, Linda – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
In 1999, after a series of far-reaching reforms aiming at decentralisation, deregulation and increased local autonomy in Swedish education, the Government decided to introduce a five-year experiment, which would develop these reform efforts even further. Even though Swedish compulsory schools already were the most autonomous in Europe with regard…
Descriptors: Freedom, Time Management, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Hoog, Jonas; Bredeson, Paul V.; Johansson, Olof – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
Over the past three decades, the forces of globalisation--economic, political and cultural--have significantly affected institutions and people across the world: altering in some ways the very terrain of public and private life. Public education has in no small way been challenged by new realities and new demands in an increasingly interdependent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Public Education
Ekholm, Mats – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 1987
The purpose of this study is to examine two large scale in-service training programs concerning Sweden's local school development. Specifically reports on relationship between centrally-introduced school reforms and response of local school management to those reforms. (BSR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Education, Research and Development, School Administration
Stromberg, Lars – School Research Newsletter, 1987
Efforts to achieve greater decentralization, deregulation, and management by objectives in the public sector have left an indelible mark on the school sector in Sweden during the 1980s. The experimental scheme of local agencies and free municipalities illustrates two such reforms. Under the free municipality experiment, a number of municipalities…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship
Galton, Maurice – Western European Education, 1988
Discusses the background of Sweden's Primary Education Development Project and summarizes five lectures delivered at the 1987 Council for Cultural Cooperation Project No. 8 Symposium (Stockholm, Sweden). Highlighting recent developments in school-based innovation, concludes that locally initiated innovation is most valuable when actively supported…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedEkholm, Mats – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1997
Argues that recent changes in conceptions of state control over schools are due partially to the relaxation of Cold War politics. Shows that new models of management produce fewer changes in school quality than expected. Proposes that the determining factor in change is the mentality inherent in individual schools' working structures. (DSK)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Waldow, Florian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
The Swedish school system is a highly comprehensive one, with "grundskola" (compulsory school) for 7- to 16-year-olds and the non-compulsory "gymnasieskola" (three-year upper secondary school) as the main types of school. Since the decentralization reforms of the 1990s, municipalities (290 in total) have been given considerable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, School District Autonomy, Time Management
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