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Local Education Policies

Comparing Sweden and Britain

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Christine Hudson

    1. Umeå University, Sweden

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  2. Anders Lidström

    1. Umeå University, Sweden

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Christine Hudson, Anders Lidström
      Pages 3-26

    3. National School Policy Changes in Britain and Sweden

      • Christine Hudson, Anders Lidström
      Pages 27-64

  3. Choice, Markets and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Local School Choice Policies in Sweden

      • Anders Lidström
      Pages 67-90

    3. School Markets and Locality: an Exploration of Difference in the English Education Market Place

      • Sharon Gewirtz
      Pages 91-120

  4. Schools and Local Development Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Education and Local Development Policies in Sweden

      • Anders Lidström
      Pages 123-146

    3. In the Company of Schools: Schools and Local Development Strategies in Britain

      • Christine Hudson
      Pages 147-177

  5. The Governance of Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Changed Leadership Roles in Swedish Schools

      • Olof Johansson, Leif Lundberg
      Pages 181-203

    3. Learning Cities for the Learning Society

      • Sue Cara, Charles Landry, Stewart Ranson
      Pages 205-229

  6. Concluding Section

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Conclusions

      • Anders Lidström, Christine Hudson
      Pages 233-241

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 242-243
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In the Western world, education policy has increasingly become a local matter. Localities and schools adjust education to meet specific local needs, fragmentation and diversity. Globalization and the greater emphasis on knowledge in society however, also embody strong streamlining tendencies. This edited volume examines and compares the way in which local education systems in Britain and Sweden are created in the interplay between common tendencies of change and particular local conditions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Umeå University, Sweden

    Christine Hudson, Anders Lidström

About the editors

SUE CARA Associate Director, National Institute for Adult Continuing Education SHARON GEWIRTZ Lecturer in Social Policy, The Open University OLAF JOHANSSON Associate Professor of Political Science, and Chair of the Centre for Principal Development and Director of the National Head Teachers Training Programme, Umeå University, Sweden CHARLES LANDRY Director of the Research Consultancy, COMEDIA LEIF LUNDBERG Director of Studies, Head Teacher Training Programme, Umeå University, Sweden STEWART RANSON Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Birmingham

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