School as System and Idea

Education facts

Code: LPGK08

With an emphasis on the secondary school levels, the course covers descriptions and problematisations of: - the political governance of school at different levels, especially in regard to the support and control functions of the National Agency for Education and the Swedish Schools Inspectorate - the organisation of the education system in Sweden and other countries - the legal framework of education with an emphasis on core values and international agreements on human rights and children's rights - the modern history of the Swedish modern history with glimpses of the earlier history in relation to diversity with an emphasis on class and gender equity - curriculum theory with an emphasis on Swedish curricular research and its descriptions - pedagogic and subject-specific education research perspectives on school, - school core values nationally and locally in an intersectoral perspective, and - aesthetical forms of expression.

Entry requirements

Admission to the teacher education bridging programme

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• School as System and Idea

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %