This article will focus on early childhood education and pedagogy in the new millennium. The context is Sweden and Swedish preschool, where a change in the school law a few years ago also resulted in a revision of the preschool curriculum. "Teaching" is one of the new notions that has not previously been used in the preschool context. In…

This article reports on a phenomenographic-based study of the expectations of teaching among undergraduate physics students. Data are drawn from a range of course-contexts at each of two quite different universities--one South African and one Swedish--and five qualitatively different expectations of physics teaching are identified and exemplified.…

This text describes a Swedish research program (GUME Project--the Swedish equivalent of the Gothenburg/Teaching/Methods/English Project) carried out during 1968-71 within the field of second-language instruction and learning. A number of comparative experiments were performed in order to assess the relative merits of two different approaches to…