Market reforms in Sweden and the OECD

Trumberg, Anders

doi:10.4324/9780429470530-5

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“…This paradigm is manifest in the educational policies, and VET policies in particular, of supranational organisations such as the OECD, the World Bank, the WTO and the European Union, all of which have a strong influence on national policy formations (e.g. Avis 2012;Ball 1998;Pettersson, Prøitz, and Forsberg 2017;Trumberg 2019). In the case of VET, these policies today rest on competence-based approaches to system formation and on concepts of employability, adaptability and lifelong learning (Beach and Dovemark 2011;Brockmann, Clarke, and Winch 2008).…”

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Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Köpsén

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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Established in 2009, Swedish Higher Vocational Education (HVE) gives employers an opportunity to initiate state-funded but locally conceptualised and managed training programmes. This article investigates the system, the ideas used in policy to mandate this arrangement of vocational education and training (VET) and the institutional relations of power and control between stakeholders that it represents. Fourteen Swedish educational policy documents relating to postsecondary VET and the establishment of HVE were analysed. The findings show that policy has placed much of the power and control over HVE with employers and that both public and private education providers are dependent on employers. The system does not create any institutional relations between trade unions and HVE. Nor does it encourage employers to collaborate more comprehensively than locally regarding single programmes, to conceptualise them and their curricula. Hence, the qualifications and positions of HVE graduates in enterprises, unlike those of graduates from initial VET in upper secondary education, are not negotiated by the stakeholders in the conventional Swedish model, where national employers' organisations and trade unions are central actors. The findings also reveal that the HVE students, in policy documents, are construed as input material that, through training, are turned into products with exchange valueinto commodities.

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Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Köpsén

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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“…The marketization of education is not a trend limited to the Nordic countries; it is part of a global restructuring of education, signaling a paradigmatic shift in the governance and organization of education (Grek, 2020;Trumberg, 2019). The many global policy similarities notwithstanding, it is important to recognize differences between countries and how educational policies are shaped nationally and locally (Sivesind et al, 2012).…”

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Struggling to counter school segregation- a typology of local initiatives in Sweden

Trumberg

Arneback

Bergh

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Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Swedish compulsory schools are committed to work for equality and social cohesion. Increasing school segregation, however, challenges this commitment. Based on survey data from Swedish municipalities, this article maps and analyses local initiatives that counteract school segregation. We identify three main types of initiatives-reinforcement, dispersal, and merging-and the exogenous (school external) and endogenous (school internal) drivers involved in each of them. The analysis reveals several gaps between the national level, the municipal level and local schools that hamper local efforts to counter school segregation. This article contributes to increased knowledge on how local initiatives of counteracting segregation are constrained by national policies about school choice and independent versus municipal schools, but also how local initiatives tend to focus on organizational dynamics rather than on social and pedagogical processes.

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“…Sweden currently has very few regulations concerning choice; the system is managed at the municipality level (290 municipalities), and generally, those who do not make a choice are automatically enrolled in a school closest to their homes. Today, the school-choice system in Sweden is considered one of the most decentralized globally (OECD, 2012;Trumberg, 2019).…”

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School Choice and Its Long-Term Impact on Social Mobility in Sweden

Trumberg

Urban

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Sweden possesses a highly deregulated school system in which students in the compulsory school system are free to choose almost any school they prefer. This study focuses on the long-term difference in educational level twelve years after finishing elementary school for students who made a school choice compared to those who did not. The study uses the Voronoi method of estimating school choice and is based on detailed register-based data for all students that finished elementary school in Sweden in the years 2000-2002. The results confirm previous findings that the most resourceful families more often make active choices. However, those who made an active school choice seem to have lower future educational achievement. The exception are those who have foreign-born parents, and those living in low-resource areas, who made an active school choice. They have a more positive educational achievement compared to those who stayed in the closest school.

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Market reforms in Sweden and the OECD

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Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Struggling to counter school segregation- a typology of local initiatives in Sweden

School Choice and Its Long-Term Impact on Social Mobility in Sweden

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