Ann-Sofie Holm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4084831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann-Sofie Holm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann-Sofie |
| FAMILY NAME | Holm |
| SIGNATURE | HOLM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9025-4666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education
Private international education is on the rise, but we still have limited knowledge on how different commercial actors operate in this field and how it affects local teachers and their work in the schools abroad. Swedish school companies have been active in exporting schooling in the international arena, including “Swedish” education models. In this article, we examine one company and their operations in India. We explore the interpretations of t…
Swinging Asymmetries
The international school sector is undergoing a shift toward nontraditional delivery, where for-profit companies are serving local populations instead ofexpatriates. Poole and Bunnell (2023) have presented three metaphors to theorize these changes, and our study seeks to expand on these with empirical evidence, through an analysis of what two Swedish school companies operating abroad conceive as “international” and “national” elements in their of…
How do we marry the two things together?’
This article focuses on a Swedish school company and its operations in India, examining how setting up and operating schools in another national place forge particular spatial imaginaries. It contributes to literature on the Global Education Industry by focusing on international moves of commercial non-Anglo-Saxon actors. Drawing on interviews and extensive fieldwork in India, we show how the ‘marriage’ between the global (represented by the Swed…
The academic–vocational divide in three Nordic countries
In this study we examine how the academic–vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academicallyoriented programmes at the upper-secondary school level. The paper is based on a critical re-analysis of results from previous studies; in it we investigate the implications of this divide for class and gender inequalities. The theoretical lens used for the synthesis is based on …
Pedagogic identities for sale! Segregation and homogenization in Swedish upper secondary school
The aim of this article is to illustrate how Swedish schools construct different pedagogic identities in the way they marketize themselves. We examine through a Bernsteinian lens how upper secondary schools promote themselves; what identities are being called for by the schools and how these identities are expressed. Moreover, the article intends to study how these identities are reflected in studied school actors and how they can be understood i…
Maximising Opportunity and Minimising Risk
This article explores young people’s upper secondary school choices after recent reforms of school choice and competition in Sweden, drawing on interviews with students and school staff. The respondents identify important motives and strategies in students’ school choices, for example, the character of school and schooling, the influence of marketing and education policy, as well as young people’s identities and positions. Young people’s ‘horizon…
Educational marketization the Swedish way
Sweden has commonly been regarded as a striking example of a social democratic welfare-state regime (Esping-Andersen Citation1996), characterized by strong state governance and active involvement in welfare matters. In the last two decades, however, the Swedish public sector and education system have been radically and extensively transformed in a neo-liberal direction, a move that was preceded by extensive decentralization of decision-making fro…
Living with Market Forces”Principals’ Perceptions of Market Competition in Swedish Upper Secondary School Education
The Swedish education system has undergone major restructuring since the early 1990s. The new policy, including e.g. decentralisation, accountability, school choice and a tax-funded voucher system, has led to an expanding “school market” .This article explores how upper secondary school principals perceive the increased competition among schools and its impact on their work and the school organisation. The data emanate from interviews with princi…
School as “Edu-business”
In the early 1990s, Sweden experienced state policy reforms, which opened the way for new, private actors to run publicly funded independent schools. In 2010 the independent schools recruited almost a quarter of the upper secondary students. More than eight of the ten schools were managed by limited companies. Against this backdrop, and drawing on Ball (2007) and Whitfield (2006) who focus on policy trends of the transfer of public education (and…
Privatisation of public education? The emergence of independent upper secondary schools in Sweden
This article explores the upper secondary (or post‐16) school market. The study on which it is based, funded by the Swedish Research Council, was entitled ‘Upper‐secondary education as a market’. Empirical data include official statistics, policy documents, school publications, company reports and school visits. Printed and other news media were also scrutinised to identify how the marketisation of education is represented in public discourse. A …
Educational marketization the Swedish way
Sweden has commonly been regarded as a striking example of a social democratic welfare-state regime (Esping-Andersen Citation1996), characterized by strong state governance and active involvement in welfare matters. In the last two decades, however, the Swedish public sector and education system have been radically and extensively transformed in a neo-liberal direction, a move that was preceded by extensive decentralization of decision-making fro…
Privatisation of public education? The emergence of independent upper secondary schools in Sweden
This article explores the upper secondary (or post‐16) school market. The study on which it is based, funded by the Swedish Research Council, was entitled ‘Upper‐secondary education as a market’. Empirical data include official statistics, policy documents, school publications, company reports and school visits. Printed and other news media were also scrutinised to identify how the marketisation of education is represented in public discourse. A …
School as “Edu-business”
In the early 1990s, Sweden experienced state policy reforms, which opened the way for new, private actors to run publicly funded independent schools. In 2010 the independent schools recruited almost a quarter of the upper secondary students. More than eight of the ten schools were managed by limited companies. Against this backdrop, and drawing on Ball (2007) and Whitfield (2006) who focus on policy trends of the transfer of public education (and…
Maximising Opportunity and Minimising Risk
This article explores young people’s upper secondary school choices after recent reforms of school choice and competition in Sweden, drawing on interviews with students and school staff. The respondents identify important motives and strategies in students’ school choices, for example, the character of school and schooling, the influence of marketing and education policy, as well as young people’s identities and positions. Young people’s ‘horizon…
Living with Market Forces”Principals’ Perceptions of Market Competition in Swedish Upper Secondary School Education
The Swedish education system has undergone major restructuring since the early 1990s. The new policy, including e.g. decentralisation, accountability, school choice and a tax-funded voucher system, has led to an expanding “school market” .This article explores how upper secondary school principals perceive the increased competition among schools and its impact on their work and the school organisation. The data emanate from interviews with princi…
Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education
Private international education is on the rise, but we still have limited knowledge on how different commercial actors operate in this field and how it affects local teachers and their work in the schools abroad. Swedish school companies have been active in exporting schooling in the international arena, including “Swedish” education models. In this article, we examine one company and their operations in India. We explore the interpretations of t…
How do we marry the two things together?’
This article focuses on a Swedish school company and its operations in India, examining how setting up and operating schools in another national place forge particular spatial imaginaries. It contributes to literature on the Global Education Industry by focusing on international moves of commercial non-Anglo-Saxon actors. Drawing on interviews and extensive fieldwork in India, we show how the ‘marriage’ between the global (represented by the Swed…
The academic–vocational divide in three Nordic countries
In this study we examine how the academic–vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academicallyoriented programmes at the upper-secondary school level. The paper is based on a critical re-analysis of results from previous studies; in it we investigate the implications of this divide for class and gender inequalities. The theoretical lens used for the synthesis is based on …
Pedagogic identities for sale! Segregation and homogenization in Swedish upper secondary school
The aim of this article is to illustrate how Swedish schools construct different pedagogic identities in the way they marketize themselves. We examine through a Bernsteinian lens how upper secondary schools promote themselves; what identities are being called for by the schools and how these identities are expressed. Moreover, the article intends to study how these identities are reflected in studied school actors and how they can be understood i…
Living with Market Forces”Principals’ Perceptions of Market Competition in Swedish Upper Secondary School Education
The Swedish education system has undergone major restructuring since the early 1990s. The new policy, including e.g. decentralisation, accountability, school choice and a tax-funded voucher system, has led to an expanding “school market” .This article explores how upper secondary school principals perceive the increased competition among schools and its impact on their work and the school organisation. The data emanate from interviews with princi…
School as “Edu-business”
In the early 1990s, Sweden experienced state policy reforms, which opened the way for new, private actors to run publicly funded independent schools. In 2010 the independent schools recruited almost a quarter of the upper secondary students. More than eight of the ten schools were managed by limited companies. Against this backdrop, and drawing on Ball (2007) and Whitfield (2006) who focus on policy trends of the transfer of public education (and…
Privatisation of public education? The emergence of independent upper secondary schools in Sweden
This article explores the upper secondary (or post‐16) school market. The study on which it is based, funded by the Swedish Research Council, was entitled ‘Upper‐secondary education as a market’. Empirical data include official statistics, policy documents, school publications, company reports and school visits. Printed and other news media were also scrutinised to identify how the marketisation of education is represented in public discourse. A …
Educational marketization the Swedish way
Sweden has commonly been regarded as a striking example of a social democratic welfare-state regime (Esping-Andersen Citation1996), characterized by strong state governance and active involvement in welfare matters. In the last two decades, however, the Swedish public sector and education system have been radically and extensively transformed in a neo-liberal direction, a move that was preceded by extensive decentralization of decision-making fro…
Maximising Opportunity and Minimising Risk
This article explores young people’s upper secondary school choices after recent reforms of school choice and competition in Sweden, drawing on interviews with students and school staff. The respondents identify important motives and strategies in students’ school choices, for example, the character of school and schooling, the influence of marketing and education policy, as well as young people’s identities and positions. Young people’s ‘horizon…
Pedagogic identities for sale! Segregation and homogenization in Swedish upper secondary school
The aim of this article is to illustrate how Swedish schools construct different pedagogic identities in the way they marketize themselves. We examine through a Bernsteinian lens how upper secondary schools promote themselves; what identities are being called for by the schools and how these identities are expressed. Moreover, the article intends to study how these identities are reflected in studied school actors and how they can be understood i…
The academic–vocational divide in three Nordic countries
In this study we examine how the academic–vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academicallyoriented programmes at the upper-secondary school level. The paper is based on a critical re-analysis of results from previous studies; in it we investigate the implications of this divide for class and gender inequalities. The theoretical lens used for the synthesis is based on …
How do we marry the two things together?’
This article focuses on a Swedish school company and its operations in India, examining how setting up and operating schools in another national place forge particular spatial imaginaries. It contributes to literature on the Global Education Industry by focusing on international moves of commercial non-Anglo-Saxon actors. Drawing on interviews and extensive fieldwork in India, we show how the ‘marriage’ between the global (represented by the Swed…
Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education
Private international education is on the rise, but we still have limited knowledge on how different commercial actors operate in this field and how it affects local teachers and their work in the schools abroad. Swedish school companies have been active in exporting schooling in the international arena, including “Swedish” education models. In this article, we examine one company and their operations in India. We explore the interpretations of t…
Swinging Asymmetries
The international school sector is undergoing a shift toward nontraditional delivery, where for-profit companies are serving local populations instead ofexpatriates. Poole and Bunnell (2023) have presented three metaphors to theorize these changes, and our study seeks to expand on these with empirical evidence, through an analysis of what two Swedish school companies operating abroad conceive as “international” and “national” elements in their of…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (9 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)