Structural Injustices In Swedish Education: Academic Selection And Educational Inequalities

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
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 25, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 353 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3030070301
• | ISBN-13: 9783030070304