Local Education Policies: Comparing Britain and Sweden

Book Description
Education policy has increasingly become a local matter. Localities and schools adjust education to meet specific local needs. Globalization and the greater emphasis on knowledge in society, however, also embody strong streamlining tendencies. This book examines and compares local education systems in Britain and the way in which Sweden creates the interplay between common tendencies of change and particular local conditions.



About the Author
Christine Hudson is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Umeå University, Sweden.

Anders Lidström is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Umeå University, Sweden.



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In the Western world, education policy has increasingly become a local matter. Localities and schools construct their own systems, develop their own particular profiles, and adjust the content of education to meet specific local needs. This edited volume examines and compares the way in which local education systems in both Britain and Sweden are created in the interplay between common tendencies of change and particular local conditions.


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