ABSTRACT
This chapter presents expressions of outdoor education in Sweden and looks at Swedish outdoor organisations’ efforts to meet a successively diversified and multicultural society. It discusses an increasingly privatised educational system in Sweden in which outdoor education (OE) has become a popular alternative for schools and universities in order to attract students. The chapter focuses on assessment in schools in Sweden and the consequences for OE. In Sweden, formal OE is arranged not only by schools and higher education institutions but also by non-profit outdoor organisations. Educational scholars have observed and critiqued the fact that schools and higher education are positioned in an economic market where metaphors like customers, producers, supply and demand are becoming more and more used. When faced with the challenge of writing something about the different expressions of OE in Sweden, this includes making some kind of selection of what to include and what to exclude.
