The OECD as a Booster of National School Governance. The case of New Math in Sweden, 1950-1975

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The OECD as a Booster of National School Governance. The case of New Math in Sweden, 1950-1975

Johan Prytz¹•Institutions (1)

Uppsala University¹

02 Jul 2020-Foro de Educación (FahrenHouse Ediciones)-Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 109-126

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how the New Math in Sweden reform boosted national governance and changed power relations between the teachers, textbook producers, and the national school administration, and suggest that OECD continued to support this power structure through the testing enterprises associated with PISA.

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Abstract: New Math was an international reform movement aimed at thorough changes in school mathematics with respect to both content and teaching methods. This movement started to gain influence in the 1950s, and in the 1960s several countries prepared and implemented their own New Math reforms. This movement not only attracted prominent mathematicians and psychologists but also garnered support from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The New Math reforms are examples of how OECD supported thorough and broad changes in national systems of education. In most countries, however, the influence of New Math on syllabi began to fade by the 1970s. In this paper, I discuss how the New Math in Sweden reform boosted national governance and changed power relations between the teachers, textbook producers, and the national school administration. I also suggest that OECD continued to support this power structure through the testing enterprises associated with PISA.

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...As previously mentioned, in the 1960s, the state initiated a number of development projects aimed at changing subject content as well as methods of teaching (Lindensjö and Lundgren, 2014, pp. 66-68)....
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...…and equality meant that the school system wanted to avoid a situation where mainly the children of upper and middle class families opted for the Realskolan and higher education, while the children of the working class families remained in Folkskolan (Lindensjö and Lundgren, 2014, pp. 49-53, 56)....
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...These trials involved many schools and students (Lindensjö and Lundgren, 2014, pp. 61-64), resulting in a large amount of data....
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...A third change was the introduction of national standardized tests in primary schools (Folkskolan), assessments that gained important roles in the governance of the schools from the 1940s (Lundahl, 2006, p. 410)....
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...Similar conclusions can be found concerning the specific case of Sweden (Grek et al., 2009, pp. 18-19; Sundberg and Wahlström, 2012, pp. 352-354; Tahirsylaj and Wahlström, 2019, pp. 498-500; Waldow, 2009, pp. 487-488)....
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