Implementering av International Baccalureate Diploma Programme vid fyra skolor i Sverige
En utvärdering av motstånd och möjligheter
EvaluationProgram theoryOrganizational planRossiPeter HLipseyMark WFreemanHoward EPowerDiscourseInternational BaccalaureateDiploma ProgrammeImplementationMichel FoucaultMarginalisationNormalisation.UtvärderingProgramteoriOrganisationsplanRossiPeter HLipseyMark WFreemanHoward EMaktDiskursInternational BaccalaureateDiploma ProgrammeImplementeringMichel FoucaultMarginaliseringNormalisering.
The aim of this essay is to analyze the implementation process of the International Baccalaureate?s Diploma Programme in four of the approximately 30 schools currently offering the IB at upper secondary level in Sweden. The starting point is a comparison between definitions in fundamental documents in the national programmes for Natural Science (NV) and Social Science (SP) on the one hand, and the IBDP on the other. The evaluation, based on Program theory, focuses in particular on the consistencies in the Organizational plans of each system. The basic assumption is that the IB due to a deviating organizational system, different structures, aims and objectives makes a challenge for the dominating educational discourse, to use a concept by Michel Foucault, and that resistance against the IB therefore is to be expected.As a second part of the evaluation five people who either play, or have played the role of coordinators of the IB, and who thereby are responsible for the implementation, have been interviewed. The questions have been focused around in what sense the informants can confirm resistance in their implementation work due to the differences found in the first part of the evaluation, and in what ways it manifests itself.Finally, Michel Foucault?s power structures in connection to discourse analysis have been applied on the results of the two previous parts of the essay. Foucault claims a school to be one of the state institutions acting on its behalf in conserving and defending its discourse against outside enemies. Two configurations of power are according to Foucault used in the defence; ?marginalization? and ?normalization?.The result of the study confirms evidence of both power structures being found in the implementation of the IB in the four schools included in the analysis and that the resistance against the IB in these schools can be interpreted accordingly.