The Deinstitutionalization and Fragmentation of the Swedish School System

Magnus Henrekson () and Johan Wennström

Chapter 7 in Dumbing Down, 2022, pp 117-139 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter shows how the educational trend of “post-truth” schooling continued in Sweden into the twenty-first century. It offers a close reading of the national curriculum that was in force at the time of writing (in 2021). The chapter also discusses how the Swedish school system in just a few years went from being very strictly regulated to being the polar opposite. These changes included a radical marketization of primary and secondary schooling that is unparalleled in any wealthy Western country. The chapter analyzes the school choice market in Sweden and describes how it interacts with postmodern social constructivist ideas, to the detriment of the teaching of knowledge in a classical sense.

Keywords: Decentralization; Marketization; Postmodernism; School choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93429-3_7

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