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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Transforming Insecurity into a Commodity: Using the Digital Tools Unikum and InfoMentor as an Example in Swedish Education
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Andreasson, Ingela; Dovemark, Marianne – European Educational Research Journal, 2013
New forms of activities now shape and govern the Swedish education system, based on governance through comparison. The focus on comparison can be regarded as soft governance and different types of (self-) evaluations and valuations are, at present, deeply embedded keystones in the decentralised education system. Recently this has, together with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Governance, Comparative Analysis
Teachers' Collective Actions, Alliances and Resistance within Neo-Liberal Ideas of Education: The Example of the Individual Programme
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Dovemark, Marianne – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
The education system in Sweden has taken a strong neo-liberal turn over the past 15 years. This article uses ethnographic research from an Individual Programme (IP) in a Swedish upper secondary school to explore how alliances, collective actions and resistance can be materialised within the changed system. According to the author, the teachers in…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ideology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Pupil Responsibility in the Context of School Changes in Sweden: Market Constraints on State Policies for a Creative Education
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Dovemark, Marianne – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
Sweden's present school curricula emphasise personal flexibility, creativity, responsibility for learning and suggest new understandings of quality in learning, where individual freedom of choice is meant to help produce creative, motivated, alert, inquiring, self-governing and flexible users and developers of knowledge. These curriculum changes…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Creativity, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries