Inspection effects through the eyes of the inspectors : Swedish notions

Abstract

A cadre of school inspectors with different backgrounds visit around a thousands schools annually in Sweden. Do they believe that they ‘make a difference?’ This paper analyses the ‘assumptive worlds’ (Marshall et.al. 1885) of inspectors and inspection managers at the Swedish Schools Inspectorate as expressed in interviews. The inspectors’ notions about what is affected and in what ways are brought forward, illuminating the relation between the national, the municipal and school, and the inspection process. The effects through the eyes of the inspectors, their assumptive worlds, are discussed in terms of constitutive effects (Dahler-Larsen 2011a, b) and ‘doing governing’ (Ozga & Segerholm 2011).

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