ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the "fundamental values" that supposedly hold Swedish society together and are to be transmitted to coming generations through the school system. The school system can still be regarded as one of the most important arenas for the value foundation. The relationship between the value foundation and Christian ethics is important and provides with a key to understand how the value foundation is put to play in the Swedish society as a quasi-religious moral standard with historical affinities. Michel Foucault used the example of psychoanalysis to show how Christian practices of confession were appropriated by a secular scientia sexualis, which spread to many areas of private life. The implementation of life competence education in the Swedish context uncovers intricate and interesting genealogical relationships between American programs of behavioral adjustments and the Swedish value foundation. Relationships that have connections to older technologies of power aimed at creating good citizens in the peasant Lutheran society.
