期刊名称：Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy
印刷版ISSN：2002-0317
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Co-Action Publishing
摘要：This article is based on my dissertation work on development and change in Swedish Municipal Adult Education (MAE), investigated through occupational life history studies of four teachers in different municipalities who have worked in MAE since the mid 1970s. Three periods of development – three “eras” – in MAE have been identified in terms of its relationship to the state, comprising two restructuring shifts: (1) from centralization to decentralization in the early 90s, and (2) the establishm ent of quasi-marketization of adult education in the late 90s, with a variety of AE-providers, municipal order boards and procurement processes. Comprehensive analysis of the four teacher tra- jectories and their genealogies of context has been carried out, relating to the three eras and concepts on mechan isms for institutional isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell 1991) have been used for analysis on why and how the different MAE-organizations that the four teachers work in have developed in similar or homogenous ways. In the articl e, tensions and contestation in de- velopment and change in local context are made explicit, and are analyzed and provide basis for problemizing late nati onal reformation and restructuring efforts.
