Is There a Transnational Trend of "Nudging" Away from the Arts? How the Selection Device Works in the European-Swedish Context

Autor/in	Lilliedahl, Jonathan
Titel	Is There a Transnational Trend of "Nudging" Away from the Arts? How the Selection Device Works in the European-Swedish Context
Quelle	In: Arts Education Policy Review, 124 (2023) 1, S.27-36 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lilliedahl, Jonathan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1063-2913
DOI	10.1080/10632913.2021.1903639
Schlagwörter	Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Art Education; Secondary School Students; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Decision Making; Guidelines; Course Selection (Students); Policy Analysis; Secondary School Curriculum; Declining Enrollment; Political Attitudes; Sweden; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Sekundarschüler; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Richtlinien; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; Politikfeldanalyse; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Schweden; Europa
Abstract	This paper explores the declining trend of fine arts education in secondary schools. We examine mechanisms that may explain this phenomenon on structural levels of policymaking and policy implementation in different areas of the education system. What will be defined as the "selection device" refers to the structurally determined selection of educational content at various policy levels of society. We argue that the choices politicians, principals, students, and parents make are regulated by "nudging" as an underlying principle of the selective device. By presenting students with "rational choice" alternatives, they are gently pressuring them away from selecting arts courses. This redirection is discursively conveyed by schools, but systematically governed by national and international guidelines in which the fine arts have a relatively low status. The declining legitimacy of arts subjects in secondary education can thus be seen as an outcome of policies embedded in the education system. By manipulating the features of the selection device, the transnational movement of the New Right exerts control over educational policy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01