Structural Injustices in Swedish Education: Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319954042)

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.

Author: Dennis Beach
ISBN-10: 3319954040
ISBN-13: 9783319954042
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2018
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d