Welcome to the course "The Swedish Education System" at Dalarna University

This course is intended for visiting foreign students and teaching will take place at Campus Falun. The course includes field studies during three days at a preschool/school in Falun.

When you take this course, you will study the following:
 
Swedish preschool and school, both primary and secondary, their organisation and governance.
The democratic mission in the Swedish school system.
Teacher education in Sweden
 
I hope you will engage in inspiring, interesting, and challenging discussions with your teachers and fellow students. As with all courses at Dalarna University, this course has a strong foundation in theory and research.
An important feature in the design of the course is that it includes various meetings with lecturers from the university, students, both fellow students in the course and Swedish teacher students, as well as teachers at Swedish schools/preschools. 

Due to the broad scope of the course, it is impossible to go into depth on all topics, but I hope that what you learn will inspire interest and help you develop new insights. 

If you click on the link below you will find a schedule for the course. Please note that all the seminars are mandatory, so make sure you can participate in them (it´s possible to do a complementary task to make up for one missed seminar):

Schedule autumn 2025 (homepage).docx

I am looking forward to meeting you all!

Best regards,

Johanna Katrin
Course coordinator

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Johanna Katrin Course Coordinator and Teacher, seminar 1 jkt@du.se
				Lena Dahlstrand Teacher, seminar 2 ldl@du.se
				Anette Bagger Teacher, seminar 3 anba@du.se
				Nadezda "Nadja" Lebedeva Teacher, seminar 4 nle@du.se