School as System and Idea

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.