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Democracy as a Floating Signifier: The Struggle for Legitimation of Programming in Swedish Schools
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Anthemis Raptopoulou; Brendan Munhall – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The concept of democracy is a central component in education policy at all levels, yet its meaning can be interpreted in a number of ways. This paper examines how democracy is conceptualised and utilised as a legitimising force driving education policy reform. More specifically, attention is given to the use of democracy in the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy
Pupils' Ways of Understanding Programmed Technological Solutions When Analysing Structure and Function
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Cederqvist, Anne-Marie – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Programming has recently become part of Swedish technology education; pupils should now be able to analyse existing programmed technological solutions, and be able to design new ones. Teachers facing this curriculum change need guidance on how to teach and what to address, based on how pupils understand the content. The aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Programming, Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Middle School Students
Programming in School Technology Education: The Shaping of a New Subject Content
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Vinnervik, Peter – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In Sweden, as in many other countries, programming has been added to the curriculum in recent years. This paper explores how and under what conditions programming is transformed into teaching in technology education. Teachers in grade 7-9 were interviewed about what and how they teach about programming in the context of technology education, and…
Descriptors: Programming, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
Implementing Programming in School Mathematics and Technology: Teachers' Intrinsic and Extrinsic Challenges
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Vinnervik, Peter – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The 2017 reform of the Swedish national curriculum requires that all compulsory school mathematics and technology teachers integrate programming into their teaching. The new programming policy poses a particular challenge since a majority of the affected teachers have little or no previous programming experience. This paper reports on a study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Technology Education, Programming
Chalmers University of Technology: Overcoming Resistance and Inertia in Education through the Dynamics of a Matrix Organization Including Student Co-Creation
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Karlsson-Bengtsson, Anna; Enelund, Mikael; Bingerud, Mattias – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
In this contribution we describe and reflect on the organization of Chalmers University of Technology and how it benefits education development and innovation. Chalmer's matrix organization with a buyer-supplier management model for education has proven to be a driving force for change and quality enhancement and promotes the agility necessary for…
Descriptors: Universities, Technology Education, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Discourses of Education and Constitutions of Class: Public Discourses on Education in Swedish PBS Television
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Reimers, Eva – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Drawing on post-structural perspectives and analysis of television programs on education, the article investigates the public educational discourse in Sweden. It shows how a dominant neoliberal educational discourse is articulated together with a discourse of equal education, where the two discourses influence and subvert each other so that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Television, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism