Local Education Policies: Comparing Sweden and Britain

by Anders Lidström, Christine Hudson, A. Lidström

In the Western world, education policy has increasingly become a local matter. Localities and schools adjust education to meet specific local needs, fragmentation and diversity. Globalization and the greater emphasis on knowledge in society however, also embody strong streamlining tendencies. This edited volume examines and compares the way in which local education systems in Britain and Sweden are created in the interplay between common tendencies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333790405
• ISBN13: 9780333790403
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"