Guarding the boundaries: a Swedish policy debate about geography and education for sustainable development

In this article, we analyse how educational policy debates regarding specific school subjects are related to the demarcation of science. Utilising boundary-work theory we analyse material from a later abandoned revision process for the Swedish upper secondary school curriculum in 2004–2006. During t...

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Published in:	Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy
Main Authors:	Hampus Hallingfors, Henrik Åström Elmersjö
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Geography discipline geography education policy debates sustainable development boundary-work
Online Access:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20020317.2025.2457171

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