Slightly more than three decades have passed since major educational reforms were implemented in Sweden, radically changing the conditions for social groups to navigate the educational landscape. Following decentralization, and the introduction of independent schools and school choice in the 1990s, managing market mechanisms became crucial for parents when assessing their children’s educational opportunities. (pdf)

n this paper, we shed light on the mundane performance of market-logics in public educational settings by focusing on municipality websites in Skåne County, Sweden, that inform parents about local school choice policies and procedures. (pdf)

The research presented in this paper has been conducted within the field of Ethnography of Education and explores the challenges and dynamics associated with rural culture in the context of shifting economies, demographic changes, and digitalisation, with a particular focus on the Swedish context. (pdf)

The aim of the study was to examine the trends in socioeconomic, ethnic, and academic segregation in compulsory and upper secondary education in the Gothenburg school market between 1998 and 2020.

This article offers new empirical evidence regarding the limits of the premises of educational privatisation policies. Educational markets rely on the assumption that private participation has the potential to boost school diversification and open new educational opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Svensk politik saknar visioner om hur skolan skulle kunna organiseras och styras till samhällets och demokratins bästa – bortom skolmarknadens destruktiva spiral mot avgrunden, skriver Gunnlaugur Magnússon, docent i pedagogik vid Uppsala universitet.

Det svenska skolsystemet med fria skolval, möjlighet till ekonomisk vinst för friskolor, omfattande nationella prov och skolinspektion, har en betydande påverkan på alla lärarnas arbete och autonomi, skriver Wieland Wermke och Gabriella Höstfelt.

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.