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Culture, Structure and Leadership in Sweden: National Accountability and Local Trust

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The Cultural and Social Foundations of Educational Leadership

Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research ((EGTU,volume 16))

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Analysis of Swedish educational policy will start the importance of some state commissions on education. The first one was published in 1946 (SOU, 1948:27) and the second in 2017 (SOU, 2017:35). The first commission’s main aim was to form democratic citizens, while the second focused on equity in learning opportunities. Both state commissions had the ambition to contribute to reforms that would help to widen support for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds to achieve academic success. In between the commissions, there was another important state investigation between 1970 and 1974 called The school’s inner work (SOU, 1974:53). Based on the report, the parliament took important decisions in relation to students in need of extra support. These ideas can also be found in the reformed Educational act and curricula from the 1990s, including analysis of the independent school reform that was introduced in 1991.

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    Today there is grades from year six and it is voluntary for schools to give grades from year four. An opportunity that very few schools use.

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Johansson, O., Ärlestig, H. (2021). Culture, Structure and Leadership in Sweden: National Accountability and Local Trust. In: Normand, R., Moos, L., Liu, M., Tulowitzki, P. (eds) The Cultural and Social Foundations of Educational Leadership. Educational Governance Research, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74497-7_3

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