Procurement as a market in adult education

Fejes, Andreas; Holmqvist, Diana

doi:10.4324/9780429470530-11

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“…These findings are in line with research on other educational systems (Ball, 2003;Lundström, 2015;Page, 2018). However, the specific organisation and structuring of Swedish adult education make for other conditions and relationships than those present in many other public education systems (Fejes & Holmqvist, 2019;Holmqvist et al, 2020). It is thus important to consider local contexts, also when researching topics of international relevance.…”

Section: Swedish Adult Education Teacherssupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Swedish adult education (also known as Komvux or Municipal Adult Education) is a type of second-chance education that provides elementary and secondary level courses as well as Swedish language courses. It is part of the public education system and engages roughly 4% of the adult population each year (Fejes & Holmqvist, 2019). As such, this education is characterised by a few distinguishing factors.…”

Section: Swedish Adult Education Teachersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A cry, a clash and a parting: a French pragmatic sociology approach to ‘the struggle over the teacher’s soul’

Holmqvist

2020

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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This article argues for using French pragmatic sociology to explore tensions regarding teachers' work, by studying critique formulated by teachers themselves. Based on interviews with teachers in Swedish adult education it shows how teachers labour to reconcile 'what is' with 'what should be' by voicing critique. The findings suggest that, while some critique echoes institutionalised conventions without questioning them, formulating critique is also a way of resisting, where teachers tap into alternative conventions, or disengage from established practices. Some choose to ignore institutional rules, while others change jobs. These findings establish that some critique can serve to maintain the status quo and its institutionalised truths. However, pushing at reality through acts of critique can also fracture reality, which in turn allows other conventions to take root in the cracks. Identifying the various types of critique employed to question institutionalised conventions highlights the work that teachers do to shape reality.

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Section: Swedish Adult Education Teacherssupporting

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Section: Swedish Adult Education Teachersmentioning

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A cry, a clash and a parting: a French pragmatic sociology approach to ‘the struggle over the teacher’s soul’

Holmqvist

2020

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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“…MAE, a publicly funded education, gives citizens who lack complete degrees from compulsory or upper secondary education or risk who unemployment the right to participate in it for free. With roughly 4% of the adult population each year taking part, there are currently more students enrolled in MAE than in upper secondary education in Sweden (Fejes and Holmqvist, 2019). MAE also stand out in the Swedish education landscape by having the largest presence of private providers, with roughly 51% of all MAE students enrolled in courses run by private providers (SNAE, 2019).…”

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Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Holmqvist

Fejes

Nylander

2020

European Educational Research Journal

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Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and organise adult education. Interestingly, we find that competition is more heavily at play in the municipality that outsources half of its adult education, than in the municipality that outsources all adult education. We view these findings as vital for understanding how education is being outsourced to private providers and for furthering the discussion on the consequences of the ongoing privatisation of education.

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“…Additionally, there is a certain level of competition between providers. Governments and administrations use procurement measures (Fejes & Holmqvist, 2019) to put certain pressures on providers, and this decreases professional autonomy. This is important to note because it introduces quasimarket-like mechanisms into this field of education, which are between state and market as regulating forces (Hake, 2016).…”

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Modernisation of organisations due to migration?

Käpplinger

2020

RELA

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The following paper discusses as a research question the effects of increased migration by refugees and asylum-seekers on German adult education centres (Volkshochschule -VHS). Other studies have focused on the effects of co-called integration courses on learners, their trajectories, or general societal effects, such as inclusion in the labour market. In these studies, adult education was perceived as a means of how to deal with migration and integration, and the research was less focused on how migration and integration affects adult education centres. Based on modernity theories, this study used quantitative analysis in order to determine if the approximately 900 German adult education centres have changed in the last two decades due to increased migration and different legal frameworks. Program analysis were used in previous studies, while here the provider statistics were used for a longitudinal data analysis. This analysis focused on the following three factors: professional staff, the fields/subjects of provision, and financial sources.

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Procurement as a market in adult education

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A cry, a clash and a parting: a French pragmatic sociology approach to ‘the struggle over the teacher’s soul’

A cry, a clash and a parting: a French pragmatic sociology approach to ‘the struggle over the teacher’s soul’

Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Modernisation of organisations due to migration?

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