The Implementation of Swedish Educational Policy and Planning

THE ENTRY of the economist into the sphere of educational decision making and planning has marked a renewal of interest in fundamental questions of value. How far, for example, should individual tastes and preferences determine the nature and extent of educational provision? What consideration should be made of the needs of a modern society for skilled manpower? At what level of schooling should one set of needs take priority over the other? Or, to put the questions in another way, is education to be viewed primarily as a consumption or investment good or both? Will what has been termed the 'social demand' approach, based on individual interests and aspirations, or an approach assigning greater importance to the needs of the economy prevail. Or, perhaps more to the point, how can a just and effective compromise be achieved? Obviously these are not simple questions for either an economist or a nation to answer. Beneath them lie the deeper and more difficult problems of values and priori ties

Comparative education · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Political science · Public Administration · Social and Educational Sciences

• Recent Reforms of Secondary Education in Sweden

  Urban Dahllof•Comparative Education•1966

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• Secondary Education in Sweden

  Lawrence Stenhouse, Urban Dahllof et al.•British Journal of Educational…•1966

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