Structural Injustices in Swedish Education: Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Swedens education system even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization was never particularly equal. Instead, what became apparent was a system that offered advantages to the upper social classes under a sheen of meritocracy and tolerable inequalities. Combining ethnographic and meta-ethnographic methodologies and analyses, the author examines the phenomenon of structural injustice in the Swedish education system both vertically and diachronically across a period of intensive transformation and reform. This revealing volume offers a mode of engagement that will be of value and interest to researchers and students of injustices within education, as well as policy makers and practitioners. See more