Teachers’ Working Conditions Amid Swedish School Choice Reform: Avenues for Further Research

Parding, Karolina; Berg-Jansson, Anna

doi:10.7577/pp.1416

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“…In Sweden's highly market-oriented system (Schriber 2015), this is even more notable in private schools. Management has become integral and appears in many guises, whereas pedagogy has become more uniform, contrary to the intentions of reformers, who sought to increase pedagogical diversity (Parding & Berg-Jansson 2016). The lack of pedagogical knowledge among principal governing bodies partially accounts for this increased interest in managerial control forms, in concord with the demise of collegial forms of coordination and control.…”

Section: Recent Developments In the Swedish Welfare Professionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Alvehus

Andersson

2018

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Previous research has made three parallel but incompatible observations on the contemporary development of welfare professions: loss of professional autonomy, hybridization, and maintained autonomy. Yet, research providing contextual understanding of the simultaneous occurrence of these three observations is lacking. The aim of this theoretical paper is to identify and explain seemingly contradictory coexisting features of modern welfare professions through a comprehensive reading of current literature on the health care and teaching professions in Sweden. The literature has demonstrated entangled institutional logics, in which simultaneous but differing effects occur, thereby developing a new professional landscape.

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confidence: 99%

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Alvehus

Andersson

2018

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“…Welfare-sector professionals find themselves in a time of significant change. For example, teachers in Sweden are working in an environment characterized by reform agendas such as choice, privatization, marketization, competition as well as decentralization (Parding & Berg-Jansson, 2016;. Similar trends can be found in the Nordic context and elsewhere, such as Taiwan and Australia (e.g., Kamp, 2016;Huang, 2016;Parding, McGrath-Champ, & Stacey, 2017).…”

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confidence: 77%

Vol 7, No 2 (2017)

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Knowledge sharing is an essential part of interprofessional practice and will be even more important in the future in regard to the opportunities and challenges in practices for delivering safe and effective healthcare. The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore how professional knowledge can be shared in an interprofessional team at a spinal cord injury rehabilitation unit. A sociomaterial perspective on practice was used to analyse the data, and by theorizing upon this, we captured different aspects of interprofessional collaboration in health care. The findings illuminate how knowledge emerges and is shared between professionals, and how it passes along as chain of actions between professionals, in various ways. The findings offer a novel perspective on how interprofessional collaboration as a practice, involving ongoing learning, unfolds. This reveals the mechanisms by which different forms of expertise are mobilized between professions as health care work.

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“…However, we contend that the conditions for teachers' work cannot be understood as affected only by these governance reforms; that many contextual dynamics, only some of which we have been able to highlight here, must be taken into account. Given the dearth of research on the impact of geographic context for welfare sector professionals (Parding and Berg-Jansson, 2016), we highlight this aspect as particularly important for the future development of the field. Yet it works in tandem with others.…”

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Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals’ working and employment conditions

2020

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This article addresses the relationship between profession, organisation and spatial (geographical) setting, more specifically the relationship between welfare sector professionals’ conditions for work amidst governance change. In previous research, the conditions for welfare sector professionals’ work have largely been studied without taking the employing organisations or the local and regional situation into consideration. In this article, the authors question and seek to counteract this de-contextualised approach. They do so by showing that the circumstances of the specific workplace context are essential in understanding welfare sector professionals’ working conditions, especially so in current governance contexts characterised to varying degrees by marketisation, via processes and structures which facilitate choice, competition, privatisation and devolution. This line of argument is illustrated in relation to how upper secondary teachers in Sweden experience their conditions for work and employment in eight schools across three different ‘market types’. The authors contend that whilst different conditions in different workplaces can to some extent always be expected, current governance agendas in the welfare sector seem to exacerbate these differences. The article’s theoretical contribution, therefore, is in the privileging of local contextual dynamics. The authors suggest a stronger emphasis on spatially-informed frames of reference in future studies of conditions for welfare sector professionals.

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Teachers’ Working Conditions Amid Swedish School Choice Reform: Avenues for Further Research

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Vol 7, No 2 (2017)

Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals’ working and employment conditions

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