Teachers' Work in Complex Times: The 'Fast Policy' of Swedish School Reform

Autor/inn/en	Hardy, Ian; Rönnerman, Karin; Beach, Dennis
Titel	Teachers' Work in Complex Times: The 'Fast Policy' of Swedish School Reform
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 45 (2019) 3, S.350-366 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hardy, Ian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2018.1546684
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Educational Legislation; Policy Analysis; Neoliberalism; Professional Identity; Governance; Educational History; Professional Recognition; Teacher Qualifications; Teacher Salaries; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Preschool Education; Work Environment; Administrative Organization; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Politikfeldanalyse; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrqualifikation; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Arbeitsmilieu; Schweden
Abstract	This paper analyses recent educational reforms on teachers' work in Sweden following the 2010 Education Act, and up to the School Commission Report released in April 2017. We draw upon key policy texts and associated documents from the Ministry of Education, and the Swedish National Agency for Education ("Skolverket"). We consider the background to the reforms, their relations with one another and how they have played out in the Swedish educational policy context. We argue that these reforms exhibit features of 'fast policy' in terms of how they have taken on an increasingly centralised and neoliberal character, and the rapid-fire way they have been directed at teachers as individuals, rather than broader schooling structures. We show how the fast policy reforms have recentralised schooling and teachers' work--effectively de-professionalising educators. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01