%0 Journal Article
%T The status of aesthetic education in a revised centralized curriculum: a theory-based and content-oriented evaluation of the Swedish curriculum reform Gy11
%A Jonathan Lilliedahl
%A Stephan Rapp
%J Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2018.1527609
%X ABSTRACT This paper reports on a study of the recent curriculum reform of the Swedish upper-secondary school, Gy11. Although aesthetics were not made compulsory subjects by this reform, all students have a statutory entitlement to be offered a minimum of one course in an aesthetics subject. We wished to determine whether students are actually being given the opportunity of choosing such subjects. The study is a theory-based and content-oriented evaluation. Data are based on curriculum studies and a comprehensive survey of upper-secondary school principals. Our findings indicate that while principals have generally organized aesthetics courses, students seldom choose this kind of educational content. Instead, students¡¯ selection is ruled by indirect methods of manipulation
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20020317.2018.1527609