The Development of the Swedish
Educational System
Research colleagues from abroad sometimes describe encounters with Swedish
school systems and educational theory as a visit to a very large, extended
village. Not because we are particularly isolated or undeveloped – at least this
is what they say – but because most teachers have relatively similar frames of
reference, work under the same conditions, often share the same values, and
they often know one another even if they work far apart. The same goes for
pedagogical research: even with much variation in the theoretical approach and
the way of working, there is more to unite than to separate.