ABSTRACT

This article addresses the fact that local school practices in Sweden today seem to be under constant change as a consequence of the ongoing and forceful neoliberalisation of society that has been going on for about three decades. The pressure on teachers and school leaders has increased due to school rankings and quality assessment has become an important instrument for administrators and evaluators. In this ethnographic study, we describe and analyse school change; the reactions on change and the initiatives to employ school change within a secondary high school. Moreover, we develop our thinking on how this situation of constant school change may be viewed in the larger social scheme of things. Or to be more precise, this study focuses on school change that seems to have become one of the central features of the neoliberal educational system.

摘要

本文阐述了一个事实，即今天瑞典的地方学校实践似乎在不断变化，这是由于社会持续而有力的新自由主义化已经持续了大约 30 年。由于学校排名和质量评估已成为管理人员和评估人员的重要工具，教师和学校领导的压力增加了。在这项民族志研究中，我们描述和分析了学校的变化；对变革的反应以及在中学内采用学校变革的举措。此外，我们思考如何在更大的社会计划中看待这种不断变化的学校情况。或者更准确地说，这项研究侧重于似乎已成为新自由主义教育体系核心特征之一的学校变革。