4/10/2009

Analysis miss, more about authoritarian methods and using disciplinary measures…


In a debate article”Björklund’s analysis miss” in one of my teacher’s papers you could read about the results from two big investigations on discrimination and equal-treatment in preschool and school. Media hooked these investigations on immediately with articles and reportages that with black headlines are painting an alarming bullying situation in the school.


What one missed here is that here wasn’t another bullying report. What is not put forward in the media, or by the minister of education Jan Björklund hardly at all, is the interesting analysis and the suggestions on measures the National [Swedish] Agency for Education submits.


Jan Björklund has got caught in neo authoritarian methods that are rather soothing symptoms than solving them long-term. He is a strong advocate for disciplinary measures, like moving the bully, but is uninterested in the underlying causes for discrimination and violations.


Friends strongly questions a lot of the quick-fix methods that more and more are dominating the school and parent-educations. What’s demanded is intensely calling limiting norms in question, and in this work the keywords are knowledge, awareness and action.


Björklund is exhorted to redistributing the bullying-millions and to take the analysis and suggestions of measures in that are presented in the reports from the National Agency of Education, to stake the resources right, and introduce a norm-critical way of working in the teacher’s education and in the national efforts for developing the competence of the people working in school.

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