Swedish Free School Companies Going Global: Spatial Imaginaries and Movable Pedagogical Ideas

Autor/inn/en	Rönnberg, Linda; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Benerdal, Malin; Carlbaum, Sara; Holm, Ann-Sofie; Lundahl, Lisbeth
Titel	Swedish Free School Companies Going Global: Spatial Imaginaries and Movable Pedagogical Ideas
Quelle	In: Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 8 (2022) 1, S.9-19 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rönnberg, Linda) ORCID (Alexiadou, Nafsika) ORCID (Benerdal, Malin) ORCID (Carlbaum, Sara) ORCID (Holm, Ann-Sofie) ORCID (Lundahl, Lisbeth)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2002-0317
DOI	10.1080/20020317.2021.2008115
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Proprietary Schools; International Trade; Child Care; Global Approach; Commercialization; Sweden; India; Germany; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Globales Denken; Schweden; Indien; Deutschland; Spanien
Abstract	Enabled by market-oriented policies implemented in the early 1990s, a nation-wide for-profit education industry has emerged and flourished in Sweden. As a more recent expansion strategy, Swedish school companies have begun exporting their school and early childhood education and care services internationally. In this article, three such companies and a selection of the foreign operations they have set up are studied to analyse how they describe the education services they are establishing in the new national settings. The findings show that the companies have developed and followed different edu-business models, using and transforming particular pedagogical ideas and connecting them to different spatial imaginaries. These include the Swedish/Scandinavian as both places and idealized spaces, infused with borderless global transformative spatial imaginaries on the creation of autonomous learners and futuristic education visions for global futures. Educational profiles and concepts from the Swedish context are both adjusted and marketed to the foreign settings, and entail stories on spaces and mobilities, encompassing pedagogy, teachers and students. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01