School choice and implications for equity: the new political geography of the Swedish upper secondary school market

Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Hansen, Kajsa Yang; Beach, Dennis

doi:10.1080/00131911.2018.1457009

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“…Atkin 2003). Marketisation of Swedish education since the 1990s (Lundahl et al 2013) has increased opportunities for young people in the cities, while opportunities in rural areas have decreased (Fjellman, Yang Hansen, and Beach 2018), structural changes which again can be referred to the concept of power geometry. However, consequences of those policies and trends are seldom discussed in relation to career and place, which also seems to be reflected in the counsellors' emphasis on individual students' study and career dreams, regardless of place.…”

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Counselling to stay or to leave? - Comparing career counselling of young people in rural and urban areas

Rosvall

2020

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Sweden may be wealthy, but uneven distributions of resources still affect students' access to higher education and career choices. Some variation is linked to rural/urban divides, but myriads of other factors may also influence young people's options in transitions. Here I explore these issues, using data collected from interviews with study and career counsellors in both rural and urban areas of Sweden, using a framework including Masseyian concepts of place, and horizons of action. The results confirm the general poverty of access in rural areas linked to limitations of locally available educational programmes, an associated tendency for counsellors to promote 'learning to leave', and hence ongoing 'metrocentric' flows to city centres. However, they also highlight (inter alia) the importance of students' resources, which enable or constrain their ability to leave and breadth of opportunities (in rural and urban areas), and gendered socialisation factors that may promote or counter the flows.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Counselling to stay or to leave? - Comparing career counselling of young people in rural and urban areas

Rosvall

2020

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“…The above mentioned databases are used separately by educational science researchers and spatial information is regularly used in geoinformatics and geography. But it is rarer to find the data being discussed in relation to the new research dimensions by the parties concerned (Fjellman, Hansen, & Beach, 2019).…”

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Changing places, changing tracks: Inter-school mobility among Czech secondary students

Dvořák

Meyer

Kučerová

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Journal of Pedagogy

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Most of the literature on student between-track mobility or school choice examines decision making in comprehensive systems or in tracked general education schools. In this article we present data on inter-school mobility (transfers) of upper secondary students in a differentiated educational system with academic, professional and vocational tiers and with a complex scheme of programmes and qualifications. This study is based on administrative microdata from the Czech school register merged with databases containing geographical information. We performed an explorative analysis of 4,533 events of school change with focus on the spatial aspects of VET student transfers. The preliminary results confirm the usefulness of this approach in studying the role school distance plays in programme and school choice.

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“…Nonetheless, there are a few studies with a regional geographical perspective on the school system's effects on pupils' final grades in Sweden. Fjellman, Yang Hansen, and Beach (2018) investigated the implications of school choice for equity among independent Swedish upper secondary schools the central issue being the conflict between growing regional differences and equitable access to education. The study shows that the independent school market's idea of market mechanisms compensating for social divergencies has failed.…”

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Geographical variations in the relation between final course grades and results on the national tests in social sciences, 2015-2017

Molin

Fjellborg

2019

Educational Review

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Grade inflation, involving comparisons between public and independent schools, is presently under discussion in Sweden. This paper reports on discrepancies between national test results and the final course grade in social sciences, in year 9. Open data at school level were used in OLS regression analyses to scrutinise systematic differences between independent and public schools and between different geographical units. The geographical analysis was used to highlight systematic geographical inconsistencies between national test results and the final course grade. The main findings of the present study are: 1) The differences in grading between private and public actors are small when considering important background factors like the average educational level of parents, the school's grade point average (GPA), and which national test in social sciences was carried out at the school. 2) Schools in metropolitan areas are more inclined to give pupils a higher final course grade than their national test result, and it is less likely that schools in metropolitan areas and in municipalities surrounding the metropolitan areas give pupils a final course grade that is lower than their national test result. The regional differences might well affect pupils' continued studies, and the ambition of providing an equitable school to all children in all parts of Sweden has thus not been successful.

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School choice and implications for equity: the new political geography of the Swedish upper secondary school market

Cited by 46 publications

References 50 publications

Counselling to stay or to leave? - Comparing career counselling of young people in rural and urban areas

Counselling to stay or to leave? - Comparing career counselling of young people in rural and urban areas

Changing places, changing tracks: Inter-school mobility among Czech secondary students

Geographical variations in the relation between final course grades and results on the national tests in social sciences, 2015-2017

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