The education market (independent schools and reforms):

Articles

Magnússon, G. & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). Sitting on all sides of the table? The OECD’s role in Icelandic Education Policy 2030. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educationa Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2024.2360797

Þorkelsson, M. & Magnússon, G. (2024). Að eiga frjálst val um framhaldsskóla? Markaðsvæðing innritunar nýnema í íslenskum framhaldsskólum. (E: Marketisation of enrolment of students in Icelandic upper-secondary schools. The consequences of making a single market of school choice) Netla – Veftímarit um uppeldi og menntun. https://doi.org/10.24270/serritnetla.2024.2

Magnússon, G. (2023). From Salamanca to Sweden. Inclusive Education as a Policy in Transit. International Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.12022-6

Magnússon, G. & Pettersson, D. (2021). Imaginaries of Inclusion in Swedish Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1682    

Magnússon, G. (2020). Inclusive education and school choice. Lessons from Sweden, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 35(1), 25-39 DOI: 10.1080/08856257.2019.1603601  

Magnússon, G. (2016). Representations of special support: Independent schools’ descriptions of special educational provision. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 31(2): 155-170 https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2015.1125685  

Magnússon, G., Göransson, K., Nilholm, C. (2014). Similar Situations? Special Needs in Different Groups of Independent Schools. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 59(4): 377-394 https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2014.904422  

Göransson, K., Magnússon, G., Nilholm, C. (2012). Challenging Traditions? Pupils in Need of Special Support in Swedish Independent Schools. Nordic Studies in Education, 32(4): 262-280  

Ph.D. Thesis

Magnússon, G. (2015). Traditions and Challenges: Special Support in Swedish Independent Compulsory Schools. (PhD dissertation). Mälardalen University, Västerås

Book chapters

Magnússon, G. (2023). När inkluderingen offrades till marknaden. I Plesner, Å. & Larsson, M. (red). Vad behöver skolan? Stockholm: Liber.

Essays

Magnússon, G. (10/12 2021)   Essay – On extravagant symbols of the school-market (Arena Essä) 

Magnússon, G. (23/10 2020)   Essay – On the fall of the Swedish school-empire (Arena Essä)

Popular science summaries

Magnússon, G. (21/4 2016) – Popular science summary of doctoral thesis (Skola och samhälle)

Debate articles

Magnússon, G (7/5 2024). On the debate about school libraries. A reply on debate article about education reforms and evidence. Skola och Samhälle.

Magnússon, G. (27/2 2024). On the absurdity of the education market. Skola och Samhälle

      A shortened version published at Altinget (8/3 2024).

Magnússon, G. (26/10 2023). Privatization of higher education a bad idea Skola och Samhälle

Magnússon, G. (13/3 2023). The school minister is preoccupied with pseudo problems Svenska Dagbladet.
Also published at Skola och samhälle (16/3 2023)

Magnússon, G. (18/12 2022). Market governance deteriorates Eskilstuna’s schools Eskilstuna Kuriren.

Magnússon, G. (5/11 2020) – When equity was sacrificed to the market (Skola och samhälle) 

Magnússon, G. (17/5 2018) – On political suggestions in the election cycle of 2018 (Skola och samhälle). Also published at alltinget.se 22/5 2018 

Magnússon, G. (21/3 2018) – On political suggestions for marketization in the Icelandic education system (In Icelandic, Kjarninn)   

Conference presentations

Magnússon, G. & Pettersson, D. (2022). Imaginaries of Inclusion in Swedish Education Paper presentation within the symposium Approaches to historical research on education reforms, policy, and politics in the Nordic context and beyond. NFPF/NERA Reykjavík 2022. I was also the organizer and chair of the symposium.

Magnússon, G. (2019). Education as a problem of and for the market. Political conceptions of education in  Swedish government statements. ECER/EERA, Hamburg, 2019 within the symposium What is the ‘Public’ in Public Education? Mapping Past, Present and Future European Educational Imaginaries  

Magnússon, G. (2018). Balancing educational ideals? – Swedish head teachers about marketization and inclusion. Paper presented at JustEd conference, Helsinki, 2018  

Magnússon, G. (2018). Balancing educational ideals? – Swedish head teachers about inclusion and marketization. Paper presentation at NFPF/NERA, Oslo, 2018.  

Magnússon, G (2017). Enacting Contradictory educational ideals? – Balancing marketization and social inclusion in practice. Paper presentation at ECER/EERA, Copenhagen, 2017.  

Magnússon, G (2016). Politics of Choice and Inclusion – Consequences in Practice and Theory. Paper presentation at ECER/EERA, Dublin, 2016  

Magnússon, G (2016). Challenging Special Educational Traditions? Swedish Independent Schools and Special Support. Paper presentation at ECER/EERA, Dublin, 2016  

Magnússon, G. (2016). Parallell Paradigm shifts? Developments of Market Ideals and Ideals of Inclusion in the  Swedish Education System. Paper-presentation at NFPF/NERA, Helsinki 2016  

Magnússon, G. (2016). What happens in the conjuncture of ideals of school choice and ideals of inclusive education? Special education as a case in point. Paper-presentation at NFPF/NERA, Gothenburg 2015

Magnússon, G. (2013) Special Occupations in Swedish Indepentent Schools. Paper-presentation at NFPF/NERA, Reykjavík 2013   Magnússon, G. (2012). Clash of democratic conceptions? The Swedish Independent Schools and Inclusion. Paper-presentation at NFPF/NERA, Copenhagen 2012 

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