[{"_id":"project:1528","_type":"project","abstract":{"en":"Swedish commercial actors play a hitherto understudied role in the rapidly growing Global Education Industry (GEI). Recently, several Swedish free school companies have expanded abroad to operate schools in e.g. England, USA, India and Saudi Arabia. The aim of the project is to map, explore and analyse the international establishment and work of Swedish free school companies in the GEI and the implications from these international activities, by analysing 1) the international activities of Swedish school companies; 2) the presentation and organization of three schools operated by Swedish companies across the globe via a case study design; and iii) how Swedish experiences blend with new national contexts by studying curricular development as these companies establish themselves abroad. Drawing on data from interviews (with for instance owners, head teachers and teachers) from the foreign operations, media materials, official records and curricular materials, this project will enhance our knowledge about the workings and consequences of Swedish commercial actors? international activities in education, including what these may imply for the schools, students and teachers involved."},"project_id":"2018-04897_VR","identifier_short":"2018-04897","dates":{"start_date":"2019-01-01","end_date":"2021-12-31"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":2,"id":"202100-5208","sv":"Vetenskapsrådet","en":"Swedish Research Council"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":715,"id":"202100-2874","sv":"Umeå universitet","en":"Umeå University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-0209-558X","name":"Rönnberg, Linda","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":715,"id":"202100-2874","sv":"Umeå universitet","en":"Umeå University"}]}]},{"other_personnel":[]}],"tags":[{"_id":11746,"id":"50304","sv":"Pedagogiskt arbete","en":"Pedagogical Work"},{"_id":11756,"id":"50601","sv":"Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)","en":"Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)"}],"titles":{"sv":"Svenska friskoleföretag på den globala skolmarknaden","en":"Going global: Swedish school companies and their international operations"},"total_funding":"4500000","type_of_awards":{"sv":"Projektbidrag","en":"Project grant"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:1919829","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2025]]},"title":"Exporting preschool quality assurance : ideational power and legitimation of a Scandinavian edu-business","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"This study explores the quest for preschool quality and the ideational foundation it builds on through the work of a Swedish edu-business operating preschools internationally. We analyse associated flows and uses of (global) ideas on preschool quality to understand how such businesses draw on, remould and ‘move’ certain ideas on quality and quality assurance. For this we use data obtained from visits to, interviews with representatives of, and various documents produced by the business and two of its subsidiaries, one Swedish and one Norwegian. The analysis highlights important aspects of three dimensions of ideational power: the power through, over and in ideas. The results show how the business acts, particularly through the Norwegian subsidiary, as a pioneering ideational leader of preschool improvement. In this position it conveys an acclaimed state-of-the-art quality system to the policy domain, thereby legitimising large-scale private preschool provision in policy contexts where it is increasingly questioned.","DOI":"10.1080/00313831.2024.2434816","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85210966273","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232828","issue":"7","volume":"69","page":"1505-1518","container-title":"Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research","ISSN":"1470-1170","keyword":"early childhood education and care; global education industry; privatisation; quality assurance; circulation of ideas; ideational leaders; policy instrumentation","publisher":"Routledge","published":[{"raw":"2024-12-10T10:19:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2024-12-10T10:19:50.273+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-11-28T10:54:42.758+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232828"},{"id":"diva2:2005061","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2025]]},"title":"Global education industry and Swedish education companies","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"This entry explores the Global Education Industry (GEI) with a focus on the expansion of Swedish education companies, offering a perspective from a smaller Western and non-Anglo-Saxon national context to the discussion on the expanding GEI. It begins by briefly contextualizing the rise of the GEI before introducing the national policies that have enabled Swedish education companies to expand and engage with the GEI. Focusing on the actions and positioning of Swedish education companies in the GEI, the entry highlights how they leverage their domestic origins and experiences to empower global expansion. Through branding and operational strategies, they navigate local markets and promote particular educational ideals. In this process, their national identity and associated corporate branding can be positioned as a 'colonial shield', legitimizing their global expansion while maintaining hierarchies of knowledge.","ISBN":"9781035315666","DOI":"10.4337/9781035315673.00044","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105033601433","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-245341","edition":"1","page":"149-152","container-title":"Elgar encyclopedia of the sociology of education","publisher-place":"Cheltenham","publisher":"Edward Elgar Publishing","note":"[ed] Ravinder K. Sidhu; Yi'En Cheng; Johanna L. Waters","published":[{"raw":"2025-10-09T08:55:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-10-09T08:55:27.302+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2026-04-15T15:04:34.626+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-245341"},{"id":"diva2:1782698","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2025]]},"title":"Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education : a Swedish education company operating in India","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Alexiadou","given":"Nafsika","ORCID":"0000-0002-8731-4728","localId":"naal0020","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","ORCID":"0000-0002-9025-4666","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education and Special Education, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"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 the company education model by teachers in the Indian schools, and how this affects their professional capacity. Mixed qualitative methods of interviews, on-site school visits and documentary reviews, were used to examine the possibilities for teachers to exercise professional agency within their working environment. Our findings show that teachers operate within a highly structured pedagogical environment characterised by a given curriculum, a centralised learning platform and training programme, and a set of dominant discourses around values and teaching practices. Teachers are expected to embrace a new professional identity in a process of discarding past experiences and adopting the new professional language given by the company's particular education model. In willingly embracing the company discourses and expectations, teachers’ agency tends to be constrained.","DOI":"10.1080/00131911.2023.2228507","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105001988692","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-212036","issue":"3","volume":"77","page":"731-749","container-title":"Educational review (Birmingham)","ISSN":"1465-3397","keyword":"Teacher agency; international schools; local teachers; private education; India; Sweden","publisher":"Routledge","published":[{"raw":"2023-07-16T14:02:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-07-16T14:02:58.773+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T13:29:05.015+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-212036"},{"id":"diva2:1997735","type":"article-journal","status":"Epub ahead of print","issued":{"date-parts":[[2025]]},"title":"Swinging asymmetries : Swedish education companies establishing in new national contexts","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","ORCID":"0000-0002-9025-4666","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"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 offering the new national settings. Empirical data from five schools in India and Spain were analyzed. In conclusion, further theorizing of power asymmetriesis needed and an alternative metaphor is suggested.","DOI":"10.1080/10564934.2025.2539514","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105012268685","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-244140","container-title":"European Education","ISSN":"1944-7086","publisher":"Routledge","published":[{"raw":"2025-09-14T17:24:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-09-14T17:24:41.481+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-09-15T09:45:02.902+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-244140"},{"id":"diva2:1685816","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"'How do we marry the two things together?' : a Swedish education company expanding its business to India","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","ORCID":"0000-0002-9025-4666","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education and Special Education, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"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 Swedish company) and local (the ‘Indian’) are manifested in the spatial imaginary of the ‘glocal school’, encompassing hierarchical otherings rooted in discourses of both globalisation and colonialism.","DOI":"10.1080/14767724.2022.2100982","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85134185377","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-198463","issue":"2","volume":"22","page":"172-183","container-title":"Globalisation, Societies and Education","ISSN":"1476-7732","keyword":"Private education; globalisation; for-profit actors; education branding; colonialism; global education industry","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Per-Olof Erixon, Anna Martín Bylund och Jakob Cromdal","published":[{"raw":"2022-08-05T08:37:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-08-05T08:37:39.155+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2024-04-30T13:46:11.027+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-198463"},{"id":"diva2:1754672","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"title":"When nordic education myths meet economic realities : the \"nordic model\" in education export in Finland and Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Hinke Dobrochinski Candido","given":"Helena","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland"}]}],"abstract":"We analyse policy rhetoric on education export in Finland and Sweden as a lens to explore the multifaceted Nordic model in education. We also examine how the Nordic dimension in education is represented in Finnish and Swedish education exports. Our findings highlight that, while education export approaches differ considerably betweenthe two countries, both contexts provide opportunities for private edu-business actorsto thrive, thereby sustaining the global education industry (GEI). Education export is rhetorically positioned in relation to both the national and the Nordic contexts in specific ways, with implications for how Nordic education is framed in the globalised economy. ","DOI":"10.23865/nse.v43.4046","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85162170936","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-207894","issue":"2","volume":"43","page":"145-163","container-title":"Nordic Studies in Education","ISSN":"1891-5949","keyword":"education export; Nordic model; nation branding; commercialisation; global education industry","publisher":"Cappelen Damm Akademisk","note":"[ed] Per-Olof Erixon, Anna Martín Bylund och Jakob Cromdal","published":[{"raw":"2023-05-04T11:11:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-05-04T11:11:03.112+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2023-07-03T09:26:51.505+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-207894"},{"id":"diva2:1639220","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"Klivet över nationsgränsen : friskoleföretagens utlandsexpansion","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"},{"name":"Åbo universitet"}]}],"ISBN":"9789127829404","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-192629","page":"220-233","container-title":"När skolan blev en marknad : trettio år med friskolor","publisher":"Natur och kultur","note":"[ed] Per Kornhall; Sten Svensson; Bo Karlsson; Majsa Allelin","published":[{"raw":"2022-02-20T19:30:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-02-20T19:30:34.738+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2022-04-05T12:27:56.868+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-192629"},{"id":"diva2:1593726","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"Pandemic Acceleration : Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Cone","given":"Lucas","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Brøgger","given":"Katja","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Berghmans","given":"Mieke","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Decuypere","given":"Mathias","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Förschler","given":"Annina","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Grimaldi","given":"Emiliano","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Hartong","given":"Sigrid","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Hillman","given":"Thomas","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Ideland","given":"Malin","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Landri","given":"Paolo","affiliation":[]},{"family":"van de Oudeweetering","given":"Karmijn","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Player-Koro","given":"Catarina","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Bergviken Rensfeldt","given":"Annika","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education, University of Turku, Turku, Finland"},{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"},{"id":"852","name":"Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen"}]},{"family":"Taglietti","given":"Danilo","affiliation":[]},{"family":"Vanermen","given":"Lanze","affiliation":[]}],"abstract":"With schools and universities closing across Europe, the Covid-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital networks and collaborative online platforms. In this joint article from scholars around Europe, we explore the Covid-19 lockdowns of physical education across the European region, and the different processes of emergency digitalization that followed in their wake. Spanning perspectives from Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the Nordic countries, the article’s five cases provide a glimpse of how these processes have at the same time accelerated and consolidated the involvement of various commercial and non-commercial actors in public education infrastructures. By gathering documentation, registering dynamics, and making intimations of the crisis as it unfolded, the aim of the joint paper is to provide an opportunity for considering the implications of these accelerations and consolidations for the heterogeneous futures of European education.","DOI":"10.1177/14749041211041793","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85114463458","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187490","issue":"5","volume":"21","page":"845-868","container-title":"European Educational Research Journal","ISSN":"1474-9041","keyword":"Digitalization; soft privatization; public education; Covid-19; boundary spanning","publisher":"Sage Publications","published":[{"raw":"2021-09-13T20:02:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2021-09-13T20:02:02.772+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2023-03-28T15:51:53.177+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187490"},{"id":"diva2:1624071","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"Swedish free school companies going global : Spatial imaginaries and movable pedagogical ideas","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Alexiadou","given":"Nafsika","ORCID":"0000-0002-8731-4728","localId":"naal0020","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Benerdal","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-2848-3548","localId":"manbyd03","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education, Gothenburg University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Lundahl","given":"Lisbeth","ORCID":"0000-0002-5791-081X","localId":"lilu0004","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"Enabled by market-oriented policies implemented in the early 1990s, a nation-wide for-profit education industry has emerged and flourished in Sweden. As a more recent expansion strategy, Swedish school companies have begun exporting their school and early childhood education and care services internationally. In this article, three such companies and a selection of the foreign operations they have set up are studied to analyse how they describe the education services they are establishing in the new national settings. The findings show that the companies have developed and followed different edu-business models, using and transforming particular pedagogical ideas and connecting them to different spatial imaginaries. These include the Swedish/Scandinavian as both places and idealized spaces, infused with borderless global transformative spatial imaginaries on the creation of autonomous learners and futuristic education visions for global futures. Educational profiles and concepts from the Swedish context are both adjusted and marketed to the foreign settings, and entail stories on spaces and mobilities, encompassing pedagogy, teachers and students.","DOI":"10.1080/20020317.2021.2008115","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85122131883","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-190934","issue":"1","volume":"8","page":"9-19","container-title":"Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy","ISSN":"2002-0317","keyword":"free school; privatization; export; private education delivery; international","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","note":"[ed] Per-Olof Erixon, Anna Martín Bylund och Jakob Cromdal","published":[{"raw":"2022-01-03T10:53:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-01-03T10:53:03.308+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2022-03-16T10:54:36.909+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-190934"},{"id":"diva2:1433210","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in two Nordic countries","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Møller","given":"Jorunn"},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"},{"name":"University of Turku, Finland"}]}],"ISBN":"9781350081826","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171254","page":"105-119","container-title":"Understanding educational leadership : critical perspectives and approaches","event":"Nordic Educational Research Association: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries (NERA 2020), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020","publisher-place":"London","publisher":"Bloomsbury Academic","note":"[ed] Steven J. Courtney, Helen M. Gunter, Richard Niesche, Tina Trujillo","published":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T11:06:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T11:06:08.079+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2021-04-01T14:42:29.009+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171254"},{"id":"diva2:1456776","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"National testing and accountability in the Scandinavian welfare states : education policy translations in Norway, Denmark and Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Skedsmo","given":"Guri","affiliation":[{"name":"Schwyz University of Teacher Education, Switzerland; University of Oslo, Norway"}]},{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"},{"name":"University of Turku, Finland"}]},{"family":"Ydesen","given":"Christian","affiliation":[{"name":"Aalborg University, Denmark"}]}],"ISBN":"9780367856502","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173925","page":"113-129","container-title":"World yearbook of education 2021 : accountability and datafication in the governance of education","event":"Nordic Educational Research Association: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries (NERA 2020), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020","publisher-place":"London","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Sotiria Grek, Christian Maroy, Antoni Verger","published":[{"raw":"2020-08-06T14:37:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2020-08-06T14:37:50.622+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2021-02-17T16:43:52.751+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173925"},{"id":"diva2:1593728","type":"paper-conference","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"Pedagogiskt arbete i en global tid : svenska friskoleföretag och deras utlandsetableringar","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Alexiadou","given":"Nafsika","ORCID":"0000-0002-8731-4728","localId":"naal0020","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Benerdal","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-2848-3548","localId":"manbyd03","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet"}]},{"family":"Lundahl","given":"Lisbeth","ORCID":"0000-0002-5791-081X","localId":"lilu0004","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]}],"abstract":"Hur friskolor och det fria skolvalet har påverkat det pedagogiska arbetet i Sverige har varit föremål för både forskning och reformdiskussioner. En långt mindre studerad aspekt av denna utveckling handlar om hur reformerna har möjliggjort framväxten av en svensk utbildningsindustri med internationella exportambitioner. Kapitlets syfte är att beskriva och diskutera hur tre stora svenska friskoleföretag beskriver sin verksamhet i skolor och förskolor utomlands. Kapitlet illustrerar hur anpassningar görs både i förhållande till den valda affärsmodellen och till den nya nationella kontexten liksom i förhållande till den tilltänkta elev- och föräldragruppen. I detta profileringsarbete kommer den svenska bakgrunden i företagens verksamhet och pedagogiska ansats till uttryck på olika sätt. Kapitlet bidrar med perspektiv på hur det pedagogiska arbetet transformeras i en global tid och vilken roll kommersiella privata aktörer kan spela i sådana processer.","ISBN":"978-91-7855-604-5","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187491","page":"125-141","container-title":"Ämnet som blev : rapporter från den fjärde nationella konferensen i pedagogiskt arbete","collection-title":"Tilde skriftserie","collection-number":"3","event":"Fjärde nationella konferensen i pedagogiskt arbete, Umeå universitet, 19-20 augusti 2019","publisher-place":"Umeå","publisher":"Umeå Universitet","note":"[ed] Per-Olof Erixon, Anna Martín Bylund och Jakob Cromdal","published":[{"raw":"2021-09-13T20:16:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2021-09-13T20:16:44.291+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2022-03-16T10:15:57.508+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187491"},{"id":"diva2:1433181","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"The flow of public funding to private actors in education : the Swedish case","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"},{"name":"Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE), University of Turku"}]},{"family":"Benerdal","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-2848-3548","localId":"manbyd03","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"This chapter explores the Swedish case as an example of how privatisation and commercialisation intertwine by following the flow of public funding to private actors. We do this by studying two segments of the Swedish education market: i) education delivery and ii) training, consultancy and support services sold to municipalities and schools. Analysis of a longitudinal dataset based on municipal invoice data enabled us to identify the main actors and to shed light on issues of 'who buys what from whom'. The main private actors are analysed to identify who they are, their core missions, rationales and ownership. The analysis of market segments and the private actors illustrates how political reforms open up markets and invite private education companies to both deliver and profit from education and public funding in different ways. From a wider international perspective, the Swedish case offers some cautionary tales about the blurring of public–private boundaries in education, primarily in education delivery and the expansion of for-profit free schools, the 'privatisation of knowledge' when private consultancy actors become knowledge providers and the increasing financialisation of education.","ISBN":"9780367351458","DOI":"10.4324/9780429330025-11","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85091548747","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171251","edition":"1","page":"134-151","container-title":"Privatisation and commercialisation in public education : how the public nature of schooling is changing","event":"Nordic Educational Research Association: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries (NERA 2020), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020","publisher-place":"London","publisher":"Routledge","note":"[ed] Anna Hogan and Greg Thompson","published":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T10:46:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T10:46:25.901+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2023-09-18T14:49:28.571+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171251"},{"id":"diva2:1433156","type":"speech","issued":{"date-parts":[[2020]]},"title":"\"Follow the money\": Sweden and its education industry","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Rönnberg","given":"Linda","ORCID":"0000-0002-0209-558X","localId":"liarog96","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Benerdal","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-2848-3548","localId":"manbyd03","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Carlbaum","given":"Sara","ORCID":"0000-0002-2554-1810","localId":"saacam02","affiliation":[{"id":"5301","name":"Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Holm","given":"Ann-Sofie","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"Despite being traditionally characterized as social democratic welfare states (Esping-Andersen 1994), or as following a Nordic path to privatization (Verger et al 2017), Sweden and Finland have adopted quite different approaches to private actor involvement in public welfare. In Sweden, the public is increasingly depending on private providers to deliver core welfare services, such as elderly care, social services and health care. Education is no exception. In fact, it is a large and expanding market. In 2017, Swedish municipalities spent about 45 billion SEK (appr. 4.3 billion EUR) on purchases from private actors providing education, and this is more than twice as much that municipalities spent on private providers in 2007 (SKL 2019).In this paper we pursue a largely under-examined perspective in educational research by ‘following the money’ from the public to the private education industry. We analyse a longitudinal dataset covering the flow of public funding to private actors. This data cover all invoices from purchases made by municipalities from private actors in two segments of the education market: i) Private education delivery at the compulsory level and ii) Professional learning, in-service training, consultancy and support services. This paper thereby aims explore issues of who buys what from whom. ‘Who buys’ refers to municipalities as purchasers of education and related services. The ‘what’ is limited to the two segments and the ‘whom’ refer to the main sellers, including their core missions and ownership. Our analytical approach focuses on actors’ formative roles and the interrelatedness of the public and the private, with a particular focus on commercial and business actors (Ball 2015) and political decisions and policy frameworks that enable or constrain private actor involvement in the growing global education industry (Verger et al 2016; Thompson & Parreira do Amaral 2019; Steiner-Khamsi 2018; Au & Ferrare 2015; Ball 2012).The two national market segments illustrate how political reforms open up markets and invite private education companies to both deliver and profit from education and public funding in different ways. From a wider international and Nordic perspective, the Swedish case offers perspectives on the implications of the blurring of public–private boundaries and the monetary flows these relationships entail. We also discuss a potential  ‘privatization of knowledge’ and argue for the need to further explore the different facets of increasing ‘financialization’ of education (Thompson and Parreira do Amaral 2019:5), nationally as well as globally.","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171250","event":"Nordic Educational Research Association: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries (NERA 2020), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020","published":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T10:30:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2020-05-29T10:30:11.554+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2022-01-03T12:23:53.304+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171250"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:1528"}]}]