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Lunneblad, Johannes; Johansson, Thomas – Power and Education, 2019
The actions and behaviour among students in Swedish schools previously described as teasing, fighting and 'school trouble' have gradually come to be positioned and understood within a legal discourse. Self-assessment surveys conducted with students in grade nine, from 1995 onwards, do not, however, reveal any marked increase in violence among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Police School Relationship, Crime
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Odenbring, Ylva; Johansson, Thomas; Hunehäll Berndtsson, Kristina – Power and Education, 2017
In society today, there is a tendency towards over-diagnosing. This tendency in society at large seems to reflect the normalization of a diagnostic culture. Some researchers have claimed that this normalization could be defined as the 'medicalization of childhood'. There would seem to be a need for a sociocultural analysis of this phenomenon in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Problems, Secondary School Students, Clinical Diagnosis
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Hammarén, Nils; Lunneblad, Johannes; Johansson, Thomas; Odenbring, Ylva – Power and Education, 2015
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Educational Policy, Bullying