Communities, Markets and Traditional Values: Swedish schooling in the 1990s

During the last decade the comprehensive school system in Sweden has been called into question.Recent trends -marketisation, privatisation, religious-isation, language-isation -appear to Indicate a future school system characterised by regression to a segregationist, family-reproducing type of school, with great scope for private alternatives, and a strictly subject-based school giving priority to traditional areas of knowledge, a traditional view of knowledge, a Christian foundation, a fine-tooth system of grades and a strong evaluation system.This article is written as a commentary on the current course of events, with an attempt to stress the conceivable long-term consequences.