Simply Quality? State Governance of Swedish Preschools' Work with Children in Need of Special Support

Autor/inn/en	Palla, Linda; Sjögren, Hanna
Titel	Simply Quality? State Governance of Swedish Preschools' Work with Children in Need of Special Support
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66 (2022) 6, S.1093-1107 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Palla, Linda) ORCID (Sjögren, Hanna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2021.1958375
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Education; Special Needs Students; Preschool Children; Decision Making; State Action; Governance; Educational Quality; Documentation; Audits (Verification); Quality Assurance; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Staatliche Intervention; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Dokumentation; Qualitätssicherung; Schweden
Abstract	The purpose of this critical study is to generate knowledge about decisions by education authorities that serve an advisory and normative function for Swedish preschool education at the operational level, with a focus on work with children in need of special support. This has been achieved by scrutinising documents generated in conjunction with a quality audit within the framework of the Swedish Schools Inspectorate's three-year focus on preschools from 2015 to 2017. The analysis shows that the documents can be understood as discursive expressions within and for a regime of truth, wherein the effects of power contribute to certain norms and values gaining precedence in the operationalisation of what constitutes qualitative special support. The analysis further shows that the state quality audit focuses on instrumental and measurable understandings of quality and highlights sameness rather than difference by downplaying the ethical and pedagogical aspects of the special support. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01