What is the problem of school segregation represented to be? The power in the freedom of choice, information and "engaged" guardians

Sammanfattning: The school segregation has been growing in the Swedish schooling system in the recent years, where pupils with different backgrounds to a lower extent meet each other in the schooling system. At the same time the differences in results between schools, and the relationship between family background and pupils’ school results is increasing. This has spurred a political will to act on the growing school segregation, and in 2020 was the Official Report SOU 2020:28 published with propositions for the schooling system in order to reduce school segregation. For that reason, will this thesis offer a social constructionist approach towards policy analysis, through the perspective of Carol Bacchi’s method for policy analysis, What is the problem represented to be?, in order to scrutinize how school segregation is understood and represented in a Swedish context. The results from the analysis of the Official Report and interrelated texts display how school segregation is understood as a problem which can be helped off by introducing an active school choice, and underlies the assumption that individual choices will help to reduce school segregation.