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Gunnar Olofsson. Foto.

Gunnar Olofsson

Professor emeritus

Gunnar Olofsson. Foto.

The Emergence of the Professional Field of Higher Education in Sweden

Författare

  • Ola Agevall
  • Gunnar Olofsson

Summary, in English

The changing structure of the Swedish university system has shaped its corps of university teachers. The analytical device used to demonstrate this connection is the changing social functions of Swedish universities which serve as the lens through which we understand this change. We argue for five successive and historically added layers of functions: the training of church officials, state functionaries, experts of the industrial society, the welfare professions, and, finally, the mass of employees of the “knowledge society.” Each new function is superimposed on the existing ones, adding to the complexity of tasks, areas of knowledge, and teacher categories in the universities. The position of the university as the arbiter of the highest form of knowledge, the internal differentiation of the field of higher education, and the growth and stratification of its teaching corps are three main building blocks for this history of the Swedish system of higher education.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-22

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Professions and Professionalism

Volym

3

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • universities
  • field of higher education
  • layers of function
  • institutional form
  • institutional expansion/contraction
  • corps of university teachers
  • Sociology
  • Sociologi

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1893-1049