När Centraliseringen gav vingar åt det enskilda och potentiellt religiösa : En studie över hur Sveriges första waldorfskola fick statsbidrag i en tid när den dominerande trenden var emot

• Main Author: Pejnemo Åström, Marcus
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen 2017
• Subjects: Centralization; School History Sweden; Secularization; Private School; Centralisering; Sekularisering; demokratisering; fristående skola; Waldorfpedagogik; Kristofferskolan; Privat regi; 1960; Gunnel Ohlsson; Frans Carlgren; Stiftelsen Kristofferskolan; Försöksverksamheten; Utbildningshistoria; History; Historia; Educational Sciences; Utbildningsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34346

The study delves into reasons and arguments why Kristofferskolan, the first Waldorf school in Sweden, was able to get financial aid from the government in a time when it was unthinkable to support private schools in Sweden. From the 1950s until the 1990s publicly controlled schools were the norm in the Swedish school system and private schools were systematically dismantled. The government of this time motivated the objective of centralization with it being a democratization process to achieve equality. The public-school system was transformed during the 1950s and this transformation needed inspiration. Ironically this was found in private schools such as Kristofferskolan since it had a unique pedagogy, waldorf pedagogy. The study draws the conclusion that a long period of persuasion from the actors supporting the school’s principles was set into play, in which to convince the government of allowing the privately-operated school to be able to base the education on waldorf pedagogy. The reason why the school could flourish during these times was proved to come down to forces not foreseen by first glance. Lobbyism by the founders of Kristofferskolan to get the media on their side was discovered to be one of the utmost reasons to how the school could convince the government of providing subsidies yearly. The study was made using the method argumentation analysis and qualitative text analysis.