Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school

Henrik Fürst, Filippa Millenberg & Erik Nylander (2024) European Educational Research Journal, Online first, open access Abstract. Drawing on convention theory and sociology of critique, this article examines how teachers at a Swedish folk high school coordinate students’ activities through tests. Through ethnographic descriptions of exercises, assignments, presentations, and exhibitions that test students’ engagement, it is shown how the teachers seek to depart from the standardized assessm...