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This book takes as a starting point the dominance of urban studies in educational research and the metrocentricity that operates nationally and internationally in relation to educational policy making. Through ethnography it identifies, explores, describes and analyses important dimensions of education justice, inclusion and equity in relation to rural educational experiences in the educational system of Sweden.

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Professor, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on power processes and democratic participation, and gendered and classed relations at different levels of education. This includes studies of sub/urban schooling, the importance of local context for relations in school, patterns of segregation, and young people's understandings of power and how they would act to create change. These issues are also central to the research group which I am part of (PAGE - Power and AGency in Education). Professor of Education at the Department of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, and the Academy of Library, Information and Educational Science and IT at the University of Borås. Together with Professor Elisabet Öhrn he is involved as co-applicant and co-leader on a project examining aspects of rurality and education policy in Sweden; and he is also independently conducting meta-ethnographic analyses concerning educational justice and marginalisation in relation to transnationalist identity and global diaspora

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