Structural Injustices in Swedish Education: Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities

By Dennis Beach

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030070301
• ISBN13: 9783030070304
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"