«New Public Management», curriculum liberalization and history teaching in Sweden
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Piero S. Colla
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/123
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 45-71 File size 597 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2024-123005
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Since the post-war period, in the international debate, Sweden has been regarded as a model of emancipatory educational policies, centred on equal access to schooling. However, since the end of the 1980s, in coincidence with the end of the political hegemony of social democracy, that system underwent a process of liberalisation and deregulation that has made it an international model of a decentralised schooling system, entirely open to competition and to marked-oriented vision of knowledge. The article questions the impact of this exposure to neo-liberal values on the canon of history teaching. The canon has been subject to contradictory tensions influenced by a set of factors: the fragmentation of courses and curricula, a utilitarian approach to education and the perceived precariousness of history teachers’ professional identity. The resulting situation of crisis has led to rehabilitation of a canonical vision, evident since 2011.
Keywords: educational reform, teaching history, Swedish model, collective memory
Piero S. Colla, «New Public Management», liberalizzazione dei curricula e insegnamento della storia in Svezia in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 123/2024, pp 45-71, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2024-123005