Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education

Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context of changes in education systems.
With contributions from researchers across a wide range of scientific disciplines, the book provides examples of the consequences of market orientation in education in terms of increase in inequality as well as in terms of what the market orientation means for principals, teachers and students. It considers how Sweden has developed one of the most marketized education systems in the world and the possible consequences of such processes, as identified by research.
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education will be of great interest to educational practitioners, politicians, scholars in the field, and postgraduate and research students in education.

Magnus Dahlstedt is Professor of Social Work at Linköping University in Sweden. His research interests concern citizenship in times of migration, market orientation, welfare and social policy changes, and democracy. Andreas Fejes is Professor and Chair of Adult Education Research at Linköping University in Sweden. His research interests concern the marketization of adult education; migration, learning and social inclusion; citizenship education; and bibliometric studies in education.

Chapter 1: Market forces in Swedish education Magnus Dahlstedt & Andreas Fejes Section 1: School choice, inequality and segregation Chapter 2: Public schools' market strategies Håkan Forsberg & Mikael Palme Chapter 3: Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants Dennis Beach & Marianne Dovemark Chapter 4: Consequences of free school choice and local responses Viktor Vesterberg & Magnus Dahlstedt Section 2: Market forces and changing views on education Chapter 5: Market reforms in Sweden and the OECD Anders Trumberg Chapter 6: Representations of a school in constant crisis Eva Reimers Chapter 7: 'Market relevance' and the academic-vocational divide Mattias Nylund Chapter 8: Fostering entrepreneurial citizens Magnus Dahlstedt & Andreas Fejes Chapter 9: Neoliberalising adult education Marie Carlson & Bengt Jacobsson Section 3: Competition and business logic Chapter 10: A stimulating competition in the upper secondary school market? Ann-Sofie Holm & Lisbeth Lundahl Chapter 11: Procurement as a market in adult education Andreas Fejes & Diana Holmqvist Chapter 12: School fairs as the market place of education Martin Harling Chapter 13: Swedish school companies going global Linda Rönnberg Section 4: Competition and evaluation Chapter 14: School inspection and the market Sara Carlbaum Chapter 15: Trust-based evaluation in a market-oriented school system Jonas Vlachos Chapter 16: Lessons from Sweden Andreas Fejes and Magnus Dahlstedt