Changing Frameworks in School Governance: Partnership in Theory and Practice

Abstract

The project explores partnerships between schools, public institutions for adult education and immigrant associations concerning the impact of education and civic agency on social inclusion. The project relates to changes in the wider framework of school governance in Sweden in order to elucidate the interplay between structural and institutional change, civic agency and social change. Special attention is paid to cooperation between ethnic/immigrant associations, home and school and local educational institutions, and the consequences of the ways in which different kinds of partnerships are organized, in terms of democratic governance, and social inclusion/exclusion of ethnic minorities (as parents, organiserd in associations etc.).

Keywords

Education, Governance, Partnership, Adult education, Democracy

Publications

Dahlstedt, M. (2007). I val(o)frihetens spår: Segregation, differentiering och två decennier av skolreformer. Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige, 12 [1], 20-38

Dahlstedt, M. (2007). Föräldrar som villkorad resurs: Skolans föräldrasamarbete i mångetniska förortsmiljöer. In: Dahlstedt, M. et al. (eds) Utbildning, arbete, medborgarskap: Strategier för social inkludering i den mångetniska staden, Umeå: Boréa

Dahlstedt, M. (2007). Moralisk fostran i brist på reell demokrati. Krut, 126 [2]; 34-49

Dahlstedt, M. (2007). Fostran till svenskhet? Om en mångtydig samverkan mellan skola och föräldrar. Nordiske Udkast, 34 [2], 16-39

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). “Skriv historia med oss”: Ungdomar, urbana konfliktlinjer och kampen om förorten. In: Graninger, G. & Knuthammar, C. (eds) Samhällsbyggande och integration: Frågor om assimilation, mångfald och boende. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Governing by Partnerships: Dilemmas in Swedish Education Policy at the Turn of the Millennium. Journal of Education Policy, 24 [6], 787-801

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Democratic Governmentality: National Imaginations, Popular Movements and Governing the Citizen. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 7 [2]; 369-394

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Parental Governmentality: Involving “Immigrant Parents” in Swedish Schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30 [2], 193-205

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). The Partnering Society: Governmentality, Partnerships and Active Local Citizenship. The Open Urban Studies Journal, 2, 18-27

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). The Swedish Road to Democracy? Governmentality, Technologies of Citizenship and Popular Movements. TheMES: Themes on Migration and Ethnic Studies, 30

Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Vem ska lära vem om demokrati?. Invandrare & Minoriteter, 36 [2], 15-17

Dahlstedt, M. & Hertzberg, F. (2011). Skola i samverkan: Miljonprogrammet och visionen om den öppna skolan. Malmö: Gleerups

Dahlstedt, M. & Nordvall, H. (2010). Paradoxes of Solidarity: Democracy and Colonial Legacies in Swedish Popular Education, Adult Education Quarterly [accepted]

Nordvall, H. & Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Folkbildning i (av)koloniseringens skugga: Demokrati, nationella mytologier och solidaritetens paradoxer. Utbildning & Demokrati, 18 [3], 29-47

Ålund, A., Dahlstedt, M. & Ålund, A. (2008). Unequal Partnership? “Immigrant Associations” and Adult Education in Sweden. International Journal of Sociology, 38 [2], 18-31