Fostering citizenship? The Education System, Norms and the Dilemma of the Liberal State
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Introduction
The project aims to explore the dilemma that occurs when the education system’s expressed requirement to foster citizenship norms clashes with the liberalism (sub-)ideal of norm neutrality. This dilemma is in itself nothing new, but its gravity has markedly increased over the last few decades. This is in part a consequence of Sweden’s increasing cultural ethnical and cultural diversity, but also results from a general trend of liberalisation of society in general, and the schooling system in particular. The project aims to explore this problem using a two-pronged approach. The comparative track puts three very different approaches under the loupe. Canada, Great Britain and France have each adopted very different education policies in this regard, and we hope that a thorough comparative analysis will yield valuable policy input for Sweden, input which would be very hard to come by if we restricted the study to the national context only. Theory and the empirical material we uncover, will help us explore a second track where we abstract and identify, at much higher resolution than has been possible in earlier research, the many concerns that must be faced by policy-makers.
Further Details
Funded by a four-year grant from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.
Department Researchers in this Project
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Isabelle
Cote
(Project Assistant) |
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Malena
Rosén Sundström
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Projektmedlem - infomaster
Mikael
Sundström
(Senior Lecturer) |
External Project Members
Mats Sjölin, professor, Växjö Universitet (projektkoordinator) Christian Fernandez, Fil. Dr., Malmö Högskola..
