The Marketisation of Education and the Democratic Deficit

Autor/inn/en	Säfström, Carl Anders; Månsson, Niclas
Titel	The Marketisation of Education and the Democratic Deficit
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 21 (2022) 1, S.124-137 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Säfström, Carl Anders)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/14749041211011293
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Commercialization; Democracy; Educational Practices; Public Education; Educational Principles; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Demokratie; Bildungspraxis; Öffentliche Erziehung; Bildungsprinzip; Schweden
Abstract	This article deals with the question of what has happened to 'the public' in the Swedish education system during the last three decades. In our search for an answer we illuminate and discuss how the process of marketisation, together with the learnification and individualisation of education, replaced 'the public' from public education with the logic of the market place. To shed some further light on the current discourse on Swedish education, we contrast two principles in education and teaching, the aristocratic principle and the democratic principle. According to the aristocratic principle, education is about fixating and reproducing existing power relations as the cornerstone of a well-ordered society. According to the democratic principle of education, equality is the cornerstone of a well-ordered democratic society. Considering the shift in the very infrastructure of the Swedish educational system, we arrive at the conclusion that the principles in education and teaching are characterised by the aristocratic principle, rather than those we have characterised as democratic principles. The educational message is clear: upcoming generations are to accept the rules of the market economy and play the game accordingly. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01