THE RESTRUCTURING OF SWEDISH ADULT EDUCATION: THE INVOLVEMENT OF ECONOMISTS AND POLITICIANS IN EDUCATION POLICY

Marie Carlson

doi:10.1016/S1529-210X(04)10009-0

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Studies in Educational Ethnography

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THE RESTRUCTURING OF SWEDISH ADULT EDUCATION: THE INVOLVEMENT OF ECONOMISTS AND POLITICIANS IN EDUCATION POLICY

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Title:	THE RESTRUCTURING OF SWEDISH ADULT EDUCATION: THE INVOLVEMENT OF ECONOMISTS AND POLITICIANS IN EDUCATION POLICY
Author(s):	Marie Carlson
Volume:	10 Editor(s): Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey, and Geoffrey Walford ISBN: 978-0-76231-144-6 eISBN: 978-1-84950-297-9
Citation:	Marie Carlson (2004), THE RESTRUCTURING OF SWEDISH ADULT EDUCATION: THE INVOLVEMENT OF ECONOMISTS AND POLITICIANS IN EDUCATION POLICY, in Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey, and Geoffrey Walford (ed.) Identity, Agency and Social Institutions in Educational Ethnography (Studies in Educational Ethnography, Volume 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.163-185
DOI:	10.1016/S1529-210X(04)10009-0 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Restructuring in Swedish adult education it is not a national isolated artefact, but rather part of a broader, global movement of what for example Ball (1998a) terms global policy paradigms. It is often carried out within “a market discourse” emphasising “freedom of choice,” “flexibility” and the “effective deployment” and use of resources, and has generally been accompanied by a movement from central control to decentralisation and from direct regulation to steering by goals. Even though the restructuring of education in Sweden reflects a global political conjuncture it is also possible to discern processes of local translation and recontextualisation of generic policies, which is the subject, the subject of this article, using Göteborg, the second city of Sweden as an example. How the restructuring are experienced and interpreted by differently positioned actors and interest groups with varied interpretative repertoires will be discussed but also related to a more general discussion in the area of policy sociology.