This study examined the frames the parents of a four-year-old child use to justify the selection of a private ECEC centre for their child. The data comprised qualitative interviews with eight Finnish parents.

In this article, we analyse overarching patterns of social stratification in, and quality differences between, Swedish preschools.

This article sheds light on governance mechanisms at work when decentralised implementation of national educational and welfare policies encounters a heterogeneous sector of private service provider organisations.

This study explores the different ways in which Swedish municipalities act as quasi-market organisers in the preschool setting. Following organisational theory, we analyse their market shaping activities in translating national regulations in efforts to influence, support and control their local preschool quasi-market.

In this context, this study examines how the growth of the private education industry within the education system has influenced preschool principals’ work in Iceland. Our critical theoretical perspective aims to explore how educational trends grounded in neoliberalism have shaped the work of preschool principals.

This article examines how public welfare institutions in Denmark are reconfigured into knowledge factories. Since the 1990s, Denmark has sought to export “welfare” solutions as a way of extracting knowledge on social practices already happening in institutions of the welfare state for economic purposes.

This study targets hitherto largely understudied empirical processes and activities through which certain ideas and imaginaries are being commercialised and used by corporate actors in the global Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) industry. The aim is to analyse and critically discuss representations of the Scandinavian ECEC regime in the context of ECEC export.

Under de senaste tre decennierna har den svenska skolan genomgått en internationellt och historiskt unik ekonomisering och marknadisering. Inget land i världen har gått så långt i att marknadisera sitt skolsystem, skriver tre forskare som driver ett projekt om lobbyverksamhet i skolan.

Varför tvekar många skolforskare inför det tredje uppdraget, att dela med sig brett av sin kvalificerade kunskap? Uppdraget borde ju vara särskilt angeläget nu, med sjunkande likvärdighet, marknadisering och svår lärarbrist i skolan, skriver Eric Cardelús.

Skolor kommer fortsätta att vara egennyttiga och stå i konflikt med samhällsuppdraget så länge marknadskrafterna får styra. Det menar nationalekonomen och skolforskaren Jonas Vlachos, som ger en mörk bild av det svenska skolsystemet.