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Sweden : Sources

Last updated: 28-Jul-2008
Legislation
Bibliography
Further reading

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Legislation

1. SWEDEN. STATUTES (1998). Ordinance for the Compulsory School System (SKOLFS 1998:15). [The curriculum, common to the whole of the compulsory school system, including the grundskola, the compulsory school for mentally handicapped students, schools for students with hearing/visual and/or physical disabilities and Sami schools. The curriculum was implemented in 1994 and adapted in 1998 to be valid for pre-school classes and after-school centres in addition.]

2. SWEDEN. STATUTES (1995). Särskoleförordningen (Ordinance for Compulsory Schools for Mentally Handicapped Pupils) SFS 1995:206. [Supplement to the Education Act, regulating the compulsory schools for mentally handicapped students.]

3. SWEDEN. STATUTES (1995a). Specialskoleförordningen (Ordinance for Schools for Pupils with Impaired Hearing/Vision and Physical Disabilities SFS 1995:401. [Supplement to the Education Act, regulating schools for students with impaired hearing/vision and physical disabilities.]

4. SWEDEN. STATUTES (1995b). Sameskolförordningen (Ordinance for Sami Schools) SFS1995:205. [Supplement to the Education Act, regulating Sami schools.]

5. SWEDEN. STATUTES (1993). Law on Service and Support to Certain People with Disabilities SFS 1993:387. [Regulating services and support to certain people with disabilities.]

6. STATUTES. SWEDEN (1985). Skollagen (Education Act) SFS 1985:1100. [The Education Act applies to the entire public-/state-funded education system, including pre-compulsory education, compulsory education, upper secondary education and education for the mentally handicapped, for students with impaired hearing and/or vision and physical disabilities, for the Sami school and for adult education.]

Bibliography

7. DICKINSON, B. (1998). Models of Provision for Special Educational Needs in the Member States of the European Union and the European Economic Area (Eurofocus 10, EPIC Europe Eurofocus Series). Slough: NFER.

8. EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION (1998). General Information: Sweden. [Online] at
http://www.european-agency.org/

9. EURYDICE UNIT, SWEDEN (1999). The Education System in Sweden (1998). Available [online] via the EURYBASE database at http://www.eurydice.org/

10. EURYDICE UNIT, SWEDEN (1999a). Response to NFER query. Unpublished document.

11. EURYDICE UNIT, SWEDEN (1998).  (Now superseded by EURYDICE UNIT, SWEDEN (1999).)

12. SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY (SCAA)/BRITISH COUNCIL (1996). 'Student assessment across Europe.' Report of the British Council/SCAA Seminar, London, 23-25 January.

13. SKOLVERKET (SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION) (1999). Assessment and Grades. [Online] at http://www.skolverket.se/ Downloaded 18 June.

14. SKOLVERKET (SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION) (1998). Response to NFER/QCA questionnaire on special provision in Swedish schools. Unpublished report. (Some information available [online] at http://www.skolverket.se/

15. SKOLVERKET (SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION) (1998a). Pre-school Services. [Online] at http://www.skolverket.se/ Downloaded 18 June.

16. SKOLVERKET (SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION) (1998b). Students in Need of Special Support. Sweden: Stockholm.

17. SWEDEN. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (1999). The Minister for Schools, Mrs Ingegerd Wärnersson: 'All Pupils Shall Reach School Targets - We All Have a Common Responsibility' (Press release). Stockholm: Ministry of Education.

18. SWEDISH INSTITUTE (1998). Compulsory Schooling in Sweden. ?: Swedish Institute.

24. EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (n.d.). National Overview in the Field of Special Educational Needs - Sweden.

25. NATIONAL AGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN SWEDEN (2001). Teacher Education in Sweden Before and After 2000. Stockholm: National Agency for Higher Education.

26. OECD (2003). Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers: Background Report Prepared for the OECD Thematic Review on Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers (Sweden). Stockholm: Regeringskanlie

27. SKOLVERKET (SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION) (2004). The Swedish School System. Stockholm: Skolverket.

28. SWEDEN. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (n.d.). Factsheet: A New System of Teacher Education.

Further reading 

ISAKSSON, J., LINDQVIST, R. and BERGSTROM, E. (2007). 'School problems or individual shortcomings? A study of individual educational plans in Sweden', European Journal of Special Needs Education, 22, 1, February, 75-91.

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