A School for All or a School for the Labour Market? Analyzing the Goal Formulation of the 1991 Swedish Upper Secondary Education Reform

Autor/in	Erikson, Josefina
Titel	A School for All or a School for the Labour Market? Analyzing the Goal Formulation of the 1991 Swedish Upper Secondary Education Reform
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 61 (2017) 2, S.139-154 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Erikson, Josefina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2015.1119726
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Secondary Education; Educational Policy; Equal Education; Track System (Education); Academic Education; Vocational Education; Integrated Curriculum; Social Class; Social Differences; Economic Factors; Conflict; Educational Objectives; Political Influences; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Sekundarbereich; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Akademische Bildung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Unterschied; Ökonomischer Faktor; Konflikt; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Schweden
Abstract	The 1991, Swedish upper secondary school reform presents internationally an unusual case of the far-reaching integration of academic and vocational programmes. It has often been claimed that late tracking, such as characterizes this reform, helps to reduce inequalities between different social classes. This article addresses the question of how the government motivated and argued for a unified upper secondary school. The article finds that, contrary to expectations, an economic goal was prominent in the policy documents, and that the reform in question (postponed tracking) was not motivated primarily from an equality perspective. The article also indicates that there is a potential conflict between these two goals that has not been dealt with politically. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01