Neoliberalism and Market Forces 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 educationMagnus Dahlstedt & Andreas FejesSection 1: School choice, inequality and segregationChapter 2: Public schools’ market strategiesHåkan Forsberg & Mikael Palme Chapter 3: Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants Dennis Beach & Marianne DovemarkChapter 4: Consequences of free school choice and local responses Viktor Vesterberg & Magnus Dahlstedt Section 2: Market forces and changing views on educationChapter 5: Market reforms in Sweden and the OECDAnders TrumbergChapter 6: Representations of a school in constant crisis Eva ReimersChapter 7: ‘Market relevance’ and the academic-vocational divideMattias NylundChapter 8: Fostering entrepreneurial citizensMagnus Dahlstedt & Andreas FejesChapter 9: Neoliberalising adult education Marie Carlson & Bengt JacobssonSection 3: Competition and business logicChapter 10: A stimulating competition in the upper secondary school market?Ann-Sofie Holm & Lisbeth LundahlChapter 11: Procurement as a market in adult educationAndreas Fejes & Diana HolmqvistChapter 12: School fairs as the market place of education Martin HarlingChapter 13: Swedish school companies going globalLinda RönnbergSection 4: Competition and evaluationChapter 14: School inspection and the marketSara Carlbaum Chapter 15: Trust-based evaluation in a market-oriented school systemJonas VlachosChapter 16: Lessons from SwedenAndreas Fejes and Magnus Dahlstedt

"Too much is said about neoliberalism in general and not enough about neoliberalism in particular. This collection of papers deals with both in relation to Sweden. The reader gets a real sense of moments, structures and processes of neoliberalisation. Together the papers offer of subtle, insightful and potent analysis of a country once renowned for its equity and welfare being remade by the values and social relations of neoliberalism. We should all read this, we may be next!"Stephen J Ball, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education, University College London.