Per Wickenberg
Professor emeritus
One Step Forward and One Step Back. State regulation of environment and sustainable development through the use of the Education Act, school curricula and syllabuses (1990-2010)
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Summary, in English
The aim of this sociology of law-orientated article is to analyse and describe legislative and regulatory processes concerning the task given to schools focusing on environment and sustainable development. We are describing the policy-making processes in this field from 1990 to 2011. The study involves key interviews and
content analysis of national policy documents as well as legal sources, in order to describe and categorize legal norms that society, through its political and administrative institutions, highlight in school activities.
The article takes a starting point in a model developed by Lindensjö and Lundgren, who used the terms arena of formulation and arena of realization, to illustrate what is happening with policy at national level. The policy-making processes and their
results are in the end interpreted and understood through a perspective based on the concept of inertia and path dependence. It is evident as a result that the legal changes on the national political level are not hindering the continuing policy-making
development and enactment of sustainable development on the professional administrative national arena.
content analysis of national policy documents as well as legal sources, in order to describe and categorize legal norms that society, through its political and administrative institutions, highlight in school activities.
The article takes a starting point in a model developed by Lindensjö and Lundgren, who used the terms arena of formulation and arena of realization, to illustrate what is happening with policy at national level. The policy-making processes and their
results are in the end interpreted and understood through a perspective based on the concept of inertia and path dependence. It is evident as a result that the legal changes on the national political level are not hindering the continuing policy-making
development and enactment of sustainable development on the professional administrative national arena.
Department/s
- Department of Sociology of Law
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Publication/Series
Sociology of Law Research Report 2015:1
Volume
no 1
Full text
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Document type
Book
Publisher
Sociology of Law, Lund University
Topic
- Law and Society
Keywords
- Sociology of law
- law
- legal norms
- social and professional norms
- school
- education
- education for sustainable development
- environment
- environmental education
- act on education
- curriculum
- syllabus
- path dependence
- inertia
- historical sociology
- supporting structures
Status
Published
Project
- Normforskningsprojektet, Sociology of Law, Lund University
Research group
- Normforskningsprojektet
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-7267-375-5