Democracy lessons in market-oriented schools: The case of Swedish upper secondary education

Lundahl, Lisbeth; Olson, Maria

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“…This article set out to examine the informal role of schools in socialising young people into the attitudes, behaviours and attachments that are often associated with community cohesion, implicitly or explicitly (on the informal role of schools in democratic citizenship learning, see Lundahl and Olson, 2013). In doing so, the article focused in particular on school context variables that have been posited (both in policy and in academia) as possible contributors to fostering community cohesion -namely, school climate and school demographics.…”

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“…For example, research on youth citizenship and schools has shown that a school climate that is open and democratic is more likely to increase pupils' levels of tolerance, trust and civic commitment (Flanagan and Stout, 2010: 752), 4 Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 0(0) each of which appears to be expected of 'good' citizens in cohesive communities. Lundahl and Olson (2013) also touch upon these issues in their contribution to this issue.…”

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Creating cohesive citizens in England? Exploring the role of diversity, deprivation and democratic climate at school

Keating¹,

Benton

2013

Education, Citizenship and Social

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Over the past decade, cohesion and integration have been a key concern for policymakers in countries across Europe and North America. The rapid increase in immigration, coupled with the perception of rapid social change and instability, is seen to have presented communities and governments with a range of 'new' challenges. In the attendant debates, schools are often presented as part of the solution to these challenges, but much remains unknown about the relationship between schools and community cohesion. This article therefore explores the role of schools as a site of socialisation for children and young people and their role in fostering the attitudes, behaviours and norms that are typically associated with citizens in a cohesive society. This article focuses in particular on the role of school demographics and school climate and uses longitudinal data from students in England to examine these relationships.

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Creating cohesive citizens in England? Exploring the role of diversity, deprivation and democratic climate at school

Keating¹,

Benton

2013

Education, Citizenship and Social

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“…Olson et al 2014). Similarly in the context of the classroom, student's experiences are often downplayed, seen as irrelevant or even ignored (Brookfield 1986;Grannäs 2011;Lundahl and Olson 2013;Öhrn et al 2011). In addition, research on citizenship tends to predefine the concept of citizenship, which may obscure and confine diverse enactments of citizenship both in education as well as in everyday practices.…”

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Ubiquitous computing, digital failure and citizenship learning in Swedish popular education

Rahm

Fejes

2015

Citizenship Teaching &Amp; Learning

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How do adult students enact citizenship, and what discursive and material conditions make certain enactments more or less possible? This article draws on 37 interviews with adult students at Swedish Folk High Schools and focuses on the everyday material-discursive enactments of interactive media in adult students’ statements about citizenship. Drawing on a post-constructional perspective, the analysis illustrates how students’ statements about citizenship are made possible by ever-present media technologies and the associated practices of ‘living in media’. Students’ statements continuously reiterate how notions of citizenship are entangled with the Internet (and other new media). However, while new media are deeply embedded in the everyday lives of citizens and enables important citizenship enactments, they are also a source of discomfort, giving rise to ambiguous statements. These double-edged statements refer on the one hand to negative implications on physical health, distraction from important tasks and an over-reliance on the Internet as an everyday need, and on the other hand to improved access to information, convivial communities and empowered citizenship.

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“…Idén om att organisera utbildning i Sverige som en marknad blev tongivande under 1980-talet och har sedan dess spelat en central roll i både politik och pedagogisk praktik (Lundahl & Olson, 2013). Marknadstänkandet inom utbildning formulerades som ett hopp om en bättre framtid; en investering i kvalitet och effektivitet för landet Sverige, men också för det enskilda barnet (Dahlstedt, 2007;Lundahl, Erixon Arreman, Holm & Lundström, 2014).…”

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“…Idén om ett aktivt val av skola sågs som ett uttryck för individens frigörelse från dennes sociala bakgrund och därmed kom skolvalen att motiveras utifrån en öns-kan om ökad social rörlighet (jfr Hultqvist, 2006;SOU 2008:69). Flera forskare hävdar nu att Sverige har ett av de mest avreglerade och marknadsorienterade skolsystemen i världen (Arreman & Holm, 2011; Bunar, 2010;Lundahl & Olson, 2013;Skolverket, 2009). Det senaste decenniet har en rad studier uppmärksammat det fria skolvalet som en central dimension av skolmarknaden både på grundskole-och gymnasienivå (Ambrose, 2017; Bunar, 2010;Forsberg, 2015;Lundahl et al, 2014).…”

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Democracy lessons in market-oriented schools: The case of Swedish upper secondary education

Cited by 32 publications

References 26 publications

Creating cohesive citizens in England? Exploring the role of diversity, deprivation and democratic climate at school

Creating cohesive citizens in England? Exploring the role of diversity, deprivation and democratic climate at school

Ubiquitous computing, digital failure and citizenship learning in Swedish popular education

Välja vara : En studie om gymnasieval, mässor och kampen om framtiden

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