Adult Education in Sweden in the Wake of Marketisation

Autor/inn/en	Muhrman, Karolina; Andersson, Per
Titel	Adult Education in Sweden in the Wake of Marketisation
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 54 (2022) 1, S.25-42 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Muhrman, Karolina) ORCID (Andersson, Per)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
DOI	10.1080/02660830.2021.1984060
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Commercialization; Foreign Countries; Municipalities; Educational Policy; Apprenticeships; Distance Education; Labor Market; Labor Needs; Student Needs; Migrants; Course Organization; Course Content; Educational Quality; Selective Admission; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland; Magistrat; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Apprenticeship; Lehre; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Migrantin; Course organisation; Kurskonzept; Kursprogramm; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsselektion; Schweden
Abstract	The aim of this study is to describe and analyse how municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden is enacted at the intersection of course organisation, student selection and course content. For this analysis, the data consist of a nationwide survey sent to Swedish municipalities, interviews with school leaders from 20 municipalities and in-depth interviews with school leaders from six municipalities. The findings show that the supply of MAE courses is clearly governed by policies concerning what municipalities are obliged to offer according to the Education Act, but in many other ways, MAE policies offer a high degree of freedom for interpretation and translation. On a general level, MAE is organised in three different ways: school-based education, apprenticeships and distance education. However, the courses included are enacted in different ways in different municipalities. How the courses are enacted is governed by factors such as using external education companies, resources, the number of students and collaboration with working life. The selection of MAE courses has a clear labour market focus, where employers' needs for labour are set higher than students' wishes and needs. A central aspect of this focus is labour market integration of migrants. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11