Equal and equivalent school

The plan requires that schools and preschools work preventatively against destructive norms so that all children regardless of gender can live free, and that preschool and school should be both equitable and gender-equal. Heteronormativity is seen as part of the gender power structure that school must break. That school does more to counteract traditional gender patterns is therefore precisely what the plan advocates.

• preventive norm work in schooldecisive»Skolor och förskolor behöver arbeta förebyggande mot destruktiva normer för att alla barn, oavsett kön, ska kunna leva fria.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Schools and preschools need to work preventatively against destructive norms so that all children, regardless of gender, can live free.”
• gender-equal school»Svensk förskola och skola ska vara jämlik och jämställd, där alla barn och unga ges samma rätt till utbildning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Swedish preschool and school should be equitable and gender-equal, where all children and young people are given the same right to education.”
• break heteronormativity»Heteronormen är en viktig del i könsmaktsordningen.« (party programme ↗)“Heteronormativity is an important part of the gender power structure.”
• quality-assured norm education»Skolans sex- och samlevnadsundervisning behöver kvalitetssäkras« (party programme ↗)“School's sex and relationships education needs to be quality-assured”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The party programme explicitly makes the entire education sector responsible for working to break social and gender-based patterns, and the party defines itself as feminist. The election manifesto establishes that schools shall give each child the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own circumstances. The demand that schools do more to counteract traditional gender patterns so that no child is limited by gender is thus the plan's own stance.

• demands on education sectordecisive»Därför måste höga krav ställas på hela utbildningssektorn att verka för att de« (party programme ↗)“Therefore high demands must be placed on the entire education sector to work to break the”
• break gender-based patterns»sociala och könsbundna mönstren bryts.« (party programme ↗)“social and gender-based patterns.”
• feminist foundation»Med denna grundsyn är socialdemokratin ett feministiskt parti.« (party programme ↗)“With this fundamental view, social democracy is a feminist party.”
• each child's own circumstances»Skolan ska ge varje barn möjlighet att lyckas utifrån sina förutsättningar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Schools shall give each child the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own circumstances.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan requires schools to work actively for gender equality and equal rights and to actively counteract stereotypical gender roles and discrimination. It also wants preschools to apply gender-conscious pedagogy so that children are not forced into narrow gender roles, which is precisely the counter-proposal's demand. The plan moreover wants all students to receive equivalent sex and relationship education.

• active gender equality work in schoolsdecisive»Skolan ska arbeta aktivt för jämställdhet och lika« (party programme ↗)“Schools should work actively for gender equality and equal”
• counteract stereotypical gender roles»mobbning och diskriminering av elever och skolpersonal ska aktivt motarbetas.« (party programme ↗)“bullying and discrimination of students and school staff must be actively counteracted.”
• gender-conscious pedagogy»Alla förskolor bör tillämpa en genusmedveten« (party programme ↗)“All preschools should apply a gender-conscious”
• equivalent sex and relationship education»att en samtyckeskultur ska genomsyra samhället« (2022 manifesto ↗)“that a culture of consent should permeate society”

The plan establishes that girls and boys take harm when pushed into boxes that don't fit them, that special treatment in school is such a structure and that it must be countered. School must also be free from harassment based on sex and preventive work begin early in preschool and school. The requirement that schools do more against traditional gender patterns is thus the plan's own line.

• counter limiting gender normsdecisive»Både flickor och pojkar tar skada när de trycks ner i fack som inte passar dem — vare sig det handlar om hederskultur i familjen, särbehandling i skolan eller diskriminering på arbetsplatsen. Sådana strukturer och normer måste tas på allvar och motarbetas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Both girls and boys take harm when pushed into boxes that don't fit them — whether it's about honour culture in the family, special treatment in school or discrimination in the workplace. Such structures and norms must be taken seriously and countered.”
• school free from gender harassment»Skolan ska vara en trygg plats« (2022 manifesto ↗)“School shall be a safe place”
• early preventive work»Det förebyggande arbetet måste börja tidigt och genomsyra hela samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Preventive work must begin early and permeate the entire society.”
• equal school»en jämställd skola och vård« (party programme ↗)“an equal school and care”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan establishes that girls and boys should never be limited by their gender in school and that the entire education system should work actively with gender and equality issues, even in preschool. The counter-proposal's requirement that schools need to do more to counteract traditional gender patterns is thus precisely what the plan commits to. That the curriculum already contains texts on equality is not sufficient according to the plan, which wants to strengthen the work.

• gender-equal schooldecisive»Flickor och pojkar ska alltid känna sig trygga i skolan och aldrig begränsas av sitt kön.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Girls and boys should always feel safe in school and never be limited by their gender.”
• active gender work in schools»Genom hela utbildningssystemet behövs aktivt arbete med genusfrågor« (party programme ↗)“Throughout the education system, active work on gender issues is needed”
• gender work in preschool»För att ge alla barn lika förutsättningar ska förskolan arbeta aktivt med genusfrågor.« (party programme ↗)“In order to give all children equal opportunities, preschools should work actively on gender issues.”
• equal expectations regardless of gender»både flickor och pojkar ska mötas av samma höga förväntningar i sitt skolarbete« (2022 manifesto ↗)“both girls and boys should be met with the same high expectations in their schoolwork”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The party programme establishes that gender equality shall be promoted in the school environment and that differences between girls and boys must be noted and affect the school's methods. The gender equality perspective shall moreover permeate all areas of policy, and education shall aim to realize every individual student's full potential. The counter-proposal's requirement that the school do more to counteract traditional gender patterns thus follows directly from the plan's commitments.

• gender equality shall characterize the schooldecisive»Solidaritet med svaga och utsatta, jämställdhet mellan könen« (party programme ↗)“Solidarity with the weak and vulnerable, gender equality”
• gender patterns affect the methods»måste uppmärksammas och påverka skolans arbetssätt« (party programme ↗)“must be noted and affect the school's methods”
• gender equality in all policy»Jämställdhetsperspektivet ska genomsyra alla politikområden.« (party programme ↗)“The gender equality perspective shall permeate all areas of policy.”
• every student's full potential»syfta till att förverkliga varje enskild elevs fulla potential« (party programme ↗)“aim to realize every individual student's full potential”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto's education policy is built around the knowledge task: a break with soft schooling, measurable factual knowledge and more teacher-led teaching. The party programme states that the path to equality goes through strengthened self-determination and empowerment and that school should start from the individual's prerequisites, and that rights belong to individuals and never to collectives. An expanded normative task for school to counteract gender patterns is therefore not in line with the plan.

• knowledge task firstdecisive»Vi ska göra upp med flumskolan och återupprätta kunskapsskolan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We will deal with soft schooling and restore knowledge school”
• equality through empowerment»Vägen till ökad jämställdhet handlar om att stärka självbestämmandet och möjligheterna till egenmakt.« (party programme ↗)“The path to increased equality is about strengthening self-determination and opportunities for empowerment.”
• individual's prerequisites in school»sin utgångspunkt i individens förutsättningar och möjligheter.« (party programme ↗)“its starting point in the individual's prerequisites and possibilities.”
• individual before collective»Fri- och rättigheter tillhör individer och aldrig« (party programme ↗)“Freedoms and rights belong to individuals and never”

The campaign platform explicitly distances itself from gender pedagogy in childcare and from gender theories used from preschool onwards, and wants to end political experiments on children and young people. The plan also defines equality as formal equal treatment and rejects political measures aimed at the same outcome between sexes at group level. The counter-proposal's demand that schools should do more to counteract traditional gender patterns thus goes against the plan's line. The plan addresses the committee's reference to curriculum gender equality writings, because it wants to steer curricula towards knowledge goals instead of gender pedagogy.

• no to gender pedagogydecisive»Genuspedagogik som den ser ut idag ska inte användas eftersom den i hög grad är inriktad på utsuddande av könstillhörighetsskillnader.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Gender pedagogy as it exists today should not be used because it is largely aimed at erasing gender differences.”
• formal equality, not outcome steering»Riktig jämställdhet nås inte genom att vidta politiska åtgärder för att på gruppnivå skapa samma utfall mellan män och kvinnor, utan genom att ta krafttag mot samhällsfenomen som begränsar den enskilde.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“True equality is not achieved by taking political action to create the same outcome between men and women at group level, but by taking strong action against social phenomena that limit the individual.”
• criticism of gender theory in schools»Verklighetsfrånvända genusteorier har fått stor spridning och används från förskolan och framåt för att indoktrinera våra barn i ett gigantiskt postmodernt projekt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Detached gender theories have become widespread and are used from preschool onwards to indoctrinate our children in a giant postmodern project.”
• no experiments on children»Avsluta de politiska experimenten på Sveriges barn och unga« (2022 manifesto ↗)“End political experiments on Sweden's children and young people”