Dumbing Down : : The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System--And How to Reverse the Trend.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022. ©2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Dumbing Down
- Preface
- Contents
- About the Authors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction: The Rise and Puzzling Fall of the Swedish Educational System
- The Miracle
- Sweden's Educational Crisis
- The Purpose of the Book
- Outline
- 2 The Silver Age of Swedish Education
- The Pedagogy of the Old School System
- The Teachers
- In Sum
- 3 Educational Performance in Swedish Schools-What Are the Facts?
- Test Results and National Economic Performance
- Sweden's Downward Trajectory
- TIMSS
- TIMSS Advanced
- PISA
- Later Results and Comparability to Previous PISA Assessments
- The PISA Assessment of Creative Problem Solving
- Other Relevant Comparisons
- PIAAC
- The Diagnostic Test in Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology
- The Macroeconomic Effects of the Knowledge Decline
- In Sum
- 4 The Malaise in the School System
- The Students
- Grade Inflation
- Boys versus Girls
- Undemocratic Attitudes and "Fake News"
- A Dysfunctional Work Environment
- Mental Health
- The Teachers
- The Low Status and Shortage of Teachers
- Working Conditions
- A Lost Professional Ethos
- In Sum
- 5 Two Views of Knowledge and Teaching
- The Classical View
- The Contradictory View
- In Sum
- 6 The Rise of "Post-Truth" Schooling
- The End of Herbartian Education
- The Unity School
- The 1994 National Curriculum
- In Sum
- 7 The Deinstitutionalization and Fragmentation of the Swedish School System
- Governance Transferred to Municipalities
- The Voucher School Reform
- The 2011 National Curriculum
- The Main Features of the Curriculum
- Grading in the 2011 National Curriculum
- Calibration of Grades and National Tests
- In Sum
- 8 A Perfect Storm
- The Decline in Knowledge and Rise in Grades
- The Students (and Boys)
- The Teachers: The Vicious Circle.
- 9 The Way Forward for Sweden and Other Western Countries
- The Denial of Human Nature
- The Virtuous Circle
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendices
- Appendix A
- Index.