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Karrby, Gunni; And Others – 1980
This study investigated the function of cooperation between parents and teachers, the needs of teachers and parents regarding cooperation, and the quality and form of cooperation that is most satisfactory to parents and teachers. Discussions generated by the investigation indicated that parents entertained widely differing opinions about school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence
Marklund, Inger, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1985
Prompted by pupil dissatisfaction and indifference, an experimental scheme of modified working routines involving approximately 500 pupils and 40 teachers was conducted in senior level classes in the Municipality of Ockero between 1976 and 1981. The purpose of the project was to transform the everyday life of school and to devise methods for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discovery Learning, Educational Research, Followup Studies
Runeby, Nils – Studies of Higher Education and Research, 1988
The consequences of the German model for the relation between university professors and students and between students and society are summarized. Two positions are outlined, using a novel by German author Michael Zeller to illustrate some of the problems of student ideologies in higher education. The novel illustrates a period in the history of…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Foreign Countries, Institutional Environment
Malmgren, Gun – School Research Newsletter, 1987
Modern school research in Sweden has shown that the old selective school has been slowly transformed into an elective school, which in many ways resembles the old selective school with its parallel education systems. It is known that social background and a number of other variables (sex, nationality, type of class, etc.) have a crucial bearing on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grading, Outcomes of Education
Carlberg, Ann; Johansson, Marlene; Lundqvist, Bert Owe – National Evaluation of the Swedish Comprehensive School, 1994
Sloyd (craft and design) education in Swedish comprehensive high schools was examined in a national evaluation. During the first phase of the evaluation, questionnaires were completed by 1,314 grade 9 students and 101 teachers. For a 10-week period, 200 of those students and their teachers kept diaries describing their work in craft and design. In…
Descriptors: Design, Design Crafts, Educational Benefits, Educational Practices
Ekholm, Mats; And Others – School Research Newsletter, 1986
This monograph presents an overview of reports from a 4-year intensive research study of internal life among 3 Swedish compulsory schools and includes discussion of a 10-year follow-up study of 12 senior-level compulsory schools. The 4-year project sought to understand innovative processes, but because few innovations were observed, research…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Decision Making, Educational Development, Educational Environment