In Praise of the Present: The Pupil at Centre in Swedish Educational Politics in the Post-War Period

Autor/in	Wedin, Tomas
Titel	In Praise of the Present: The Pupil at Centre in Swedish Educational Politics in the Post-War Period
Quelle	In: History of Education, 46 (2017) 6, S.768-787 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2017.1365952
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Foreign Countries; Politics of Education; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Democracy; Elementary Secondary Education; Student Centered Learning; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Demokratie; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Schweden
Abstract	According to an influential narrative in Swedish educational historiography, the Swedish educational system underwent a drastic change during the 1990s, moving towards a more individualistic and marketised system. Without denying the relevance of this perspective, this article argues that we can trace antecedents to the reforms undertaken in the 1990s far back in post-war education policies. It maintains that the endeavour to democratise the educational system during the post war years when radicalised, started to counteract these democratic tendencies. Applying what French historian François Hartog names "regimes of historicity" as an analytical tool, it argues that a politically pertinent shift took place in the 1970s. Since then, an increasingly stronger emphasis on the present at the expense of both past and future has contributed to an undermining of the centralised comprehensive school. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01