Rational Efficiency and Human Sensibility in Educational Reform: A Swedish Case Study in an Australian Framework 1 |
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| Authors: | Inga Elgqvist‐Saltzman |
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| Institution: | Inga Elgqvist‐Saltzman, Associate Professor, Department of Education , University of Umea. , S‐90187 Ume?. |
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| Abstract: | Elgqvist‐Saltzman, I. 1985. Rational Efficiency and Human Sensibility in Educational Reform: A Swedish Case Study in an Australian Framework. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 29, 123‐140. Swedish reform in higher education during 1950‐1980 is presented in a time‐line perspective. Different stages are discussed in relation to a technical, bureaucratic and social model of educational planning, using the Australian sociologist M. Pusey's conceptual framework. An evaluation approach with a life‐line methodology is presented as well as some results. From a woman's point of view, it seems that reforms have not been able to match rational efficiency with human sensibility in the way predicted by the Australian historian W.F. Conell in his review of the period of educational reconstruction and expansion. |
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