I en klass för sig. Segregering i Sveriges bästa skolkommun - ett implementeringsproblem?

Sammanfattning: This Master's thesis examines segregation between Swedes and immigrants in school, and more specifically segregation between the two elementary schools Vikingaskolan and Tunaskolan in Lund. This case provides a particularly interesting puzzle, since Lund doesn?t have any pronounced immigrant districts, and was also recognized nationally as best municipality for its schools (2004). In this thesis we try to understand the segregation between the two schools in Lund as an implementation dilemma. The theoretical framework applies a model designed by Lennart Lundquist, which includes three potential causes for implementation problems: the implementer doesn?t understand the decision, the implementer can?t apply the decision, the implementer doesn?t want to carry out the decision. In addition, we use Michael Lipsky's theory about street-level bureaucrats as applied to schools. Together these two theories give us a both wide and sharp analytical tool, and a hope of shedding light on the segregation problem. The empirical part of the thesis is based on interviews with leading local school politicians, principals and administrators. Through these interviews we find three causes for segregation in Lund: Opportunities to choose between schools, private schools, and city planning policy. This indicates that different decisions, protecting different values, collide to impede integration, i.e. that the implementation problem should be understood structurally rather than from an actor-based perspective.