Education B, Education for All - The Swedish System, 7,5 hp
Syllabus:
Pedagogik GR (B), Utbildning för alla – det svenska systemet, 7,5 hp
Education B, Education for All - The Swedish System, 7,5 hp
General data
- Code: PE045G
- Subject/Main field: Education
- Cycle: First cycle
- Progression: (B)
- Credits: 7,5
- Progressive specialization: G2F - First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- Education area: Undervisning 100%
- Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
- Answerable department: Department of Education
- Approved: 2011-01-04
- Date of change: 2011-11-21
- Version valid from: 2011-08-01
Aim
The aim of the course is that the student, within the major area of teacher educational studies, developes:
- ability to make independent and critical judgement;
- ability to identify, formulate and solve problems independently,
- readiness to meet the changes in working life, and search for and evaluate knowledge on a scientific level,
- ability to follow the development of knowledge and exchange knowledge also with people without special knowledge within the field.
Course objectives
After completion of the course the students should:
- have gained knowledge and understanding of the contemporary educational system and the features and development of childcare and schooling in Sweden,
- display ability to critically reflect on and analyze the policies and practice of childcare and schooling in political, societal, cultural, and pedagogical contexts,
- have gained knowledge and understanding of the importance of equality and fundamental values for educational work,
- display ability to search, collect and interpret relevant information concerning educational development in historical and international perspectives.
Content
The Swedish educational system in general, as well as with a special focus on childcare and schooling.
-Curricala and other policy documents concerning childcare and schooling in Sweden.
- Features of family politics and its influence on childcare and schooling.
- The development of teachers´profession
- Policies and implementation concerning "education for all"
- Fundamental values of democracy in educational work.
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Teaching form
The teaching is normally organized through lecturing, seminars, group exercises and tutorials. The teaching activities can be carried out with support from information and communication technology as a whole or partly. Parts of the teaching can be compulsory. The course will be given in English.
Examination form
The course examinations are written and oral, continuous or final. The course work should be examined at the ordinary examination or re-examined at a later occasion during the same semester. Two opportunities to re-examine the course work are normally given in the following semester while the student has requested it. After that a student with a fail-grade is advised to participate in the next ordinary examination. Re-examinations based on the same curriculum are guaranteed within one year after the first registration on the course.
Link to criterion for subject-specific grade:
www.miun.se/betygskriterier.
Grading system
Seven-grade scale, A, B, C, D, E, Fx and F. Fx and F represent fail levels.
Course reading
Required literature
- Author: Utbildningsdepartementet
- Title: Curriculum for the compulsory school system, the preschool class and the leisure-time centre Lpo-94
- Ort: Stockholm
- Edition: 2006
- Publisher: Skolverket
- URL: www.skolverket.se
- Comment: 18 pp.
- Author: The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienes, Health Committee HealthSchool, Learning and Mental
- URL: www.kva.se
- Comment: 12 pp
- Author: Skolverket
- Title: Curriculumn for the Pre-school Lpfö98
- Edition: reviderad 2010
- URL: www.skolverket.se
- Comment: 19 pp.
- Author: Skolverket
- Title: What influences Educational achievement in Swedish schools
- Edition: 2009
- URL: www.skolverket.se
- Comment: 57 pp.
- Author: Holmlund, Kerstin
- Title: Child-cribs for the poor and kindergartens for the rich: two directions for early childhood institutions in Sweden, 1854-1930
- Edition: 1999
- Publisher: History of Education 28 (2)
- Comment: 12 pp.
- Author: Englund, Tomas
- Title: Rethinking democracy and education: towards an education of deliberative citizens
- Edition: 2000
- Publisher: J Curriculum Studies, 2000, vol 32, No 2, 305-313
- URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/002202700182772
- Comment: 9 pp.
- Author: Dewey, John
- Title: My pedagogic Creed
- Edition: The school Journal, Vol LIV, No3
- Publisher: 1897
- URL: http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm
- Comment: 8 pp.
- Author: Berhanu, Girma
- Title: Even in Sweden? Excluding the included: Some reflections on the consequenses of new policies on educational processes and outcomes, and equity in education
- Edition: 2010
- Publisher: International journal of Special Educatin, Vol 25, No 3.
- URL: http://www.internationaljournalofspecialeducation.com/articles.cfm?y=2010&v=25&n=3
- Comment: 10 pp.
- Title: General Guidelines and comments for quality in leisure-time centres
- Ort: Stockholm
- Publisher: Skolverket
- Comment: 35 pp.
- Title: Pre-school in Transition. A National Evaluation of the Swedish Pre-school
- Ort: Stockholm
- Edition: Report 282/2006
- Publisher: Skolverket
- Comment: 40 pp.