Structural Injustices in Swedish Education

Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities

Dennis Beach author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:25th Jan '19

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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.

ISBN: 9783030070304

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 465g

346 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018