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Marita Cronqvist – European Journal of Education, 2024
In education, there is a risk that joy in learning is counteracted by allowing a performance culture to dominate. Research shows that emotions are of great importance for results, motivation and well-being. This study aims to add knowledge about the essential meanings of joy in learning based on students' lived experiences and thereby implications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Elective Courses, Psychological Patterns
Nani Teig; Trude Nilsen; Kajsa Yang Hansen – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
Classrooms with higher teaching quality were associated with higher learning outcomes in mathematics and science. Classrooms where teachers reported high degrees of limitations to teaching in the classroom--including disruptive students or students with language barriers--were associated with lower learning outcomes. These are two of the important…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods
Klerfelt, Anna; Stecher, Ludwig – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
In Sweden and in Germany, an extensive system of extended education programmes and activities has been established within the last decades. Prototypic examples of this development are school-age educare centres in Sweden and all-day schools in Germany. In this article a bi-national comparison, aiming to find some similarities and differences by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Extended School Day, Educational Change
Williams, P.; Sheridan, S.; Pramling Samuelsson, I. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study explores how group size influences children's conditions for wellbeing, learning and development in preschool in relation to the intentions in the revised (2010) Swedish preschool curriculum. The study is based on qualitative methods generated from interviews and open-ended questions in a questionnaire. Group size is dependent on three…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Child Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum
Borg, Farhana; Winberg, Mikael; Vinterek, Monika – Education Inquiry, 2017
Although parents and preschool play important roles in developing children's behavior and attitudes, little is known about their influences on children's learning of environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability. This study investigated the influences of home- and preschool-related practices and factors on children's declarative and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Preschool Education, Learning Processes
Waling, Maria; Olsson, Cecilia – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore to what extent teachers eat together with pupils during school lunches and their attitudes toward using these lunches to reach the educational goals stated in the Swedish compulsory school curriculum; and second, to study to what degree teachers see themselves and school meal…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Role Models
Barker, Dean; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Annerstedt, Claes – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
In line with contemporary constructivist pedagogies, students are frequently expected to learn through interaction in physical education (PE). There is a relatively sophisticated body of literature focusing on learning in groups, peer teaching, and cooperative learning. Current research has not, however, focused on how the body is implicated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Constructivism (Learning), Interpersonal Relationship
Hansson, Ase – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
In the multilingual mathematics classroom, the assignment for teachers to scaffold students by means of instruction and guidance in order to facilitate language progress and learning for all is often emphasized. In Sweden, where mathematics education is characterized by a low level of teacher responsibility for students' performance, this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Economic Status, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models
Backman, Ylva; Alerby, Eva; Bergmark, Ulrika; Gardelli, Asa; Hertting, Krister; Kostenius, Catrine; Ohrling, Kerstin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The aim of this study was to describe, reflect upon, and create a deeper understanding of aspects relevant for promoting a positive school environment from a student perspective. The data was analyzed by using an inductive phenomenological method and based on written responses from 200 Swedish students from grades 5-9. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Sharkova, Nataliya – Education Inquiry, 2014
This exploratory paper focuses on applying information and communication technologies (ICT) in educational settings, particularly in higher education. Based on qualitative data studying four courses in detail, the article starts by discussing educators' expectations associated with technological advances. It proceeds to discuss the concept of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Svensson, Anette – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article is based on a questionnaire study of the media habits of Swedish youth aged 17-18. It examines the time they spend on using fictional texts through various media forms as well as in relation to mode (production/consumption), context (spare time/school), and gender (male/female). It further analyses these media habits and, using media…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Educational Environment, Gender Differences, Time Management
Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid; Pramling, Niklas – Education Inquiry, 2013
Theory-driven and practice-driven research are often separated, but in this article we shall argue for a research approach that is theory-driven but practice-oriented and shares features with the specific kind of early childhood education pedagogy this research approach has generated, what we refer to as developmental pedagogy (Pramling Samuelsson…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Foreign Countries
Ellstrom, Eva; Ekholm, Bodil; Ellstrom, Per-Erik – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to first elaborate on the notion of a learning environment based on an empirical study of care work. Second, to explore how aspects of a learning environment may differ between and within units in the same organization, and how to understand and explain such differences. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Work Environment, Industrial Psychology, Interviews
Norrby, Catrin; Hakansson, Gisela – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2007
One of the ways to investigate the mental lexicon is to use word association tests. Empirical studies comparing associations by children and adults have indicated a tendency for children to give syntagmatic responses, whereas adults give paradigmatic responses. In order to investigate lexical development in L2 acquisition of Swedish we collected…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
Scheja, Max – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
Findings are presented from a study of undergraduate students' experiences of understanding in first-year engineering. At the end of their first year of study 86 Swedish students of electrical engineering and computer science were asked to reflect in writing on their experiences of studying and learning. Fifteen of them also took part in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Engineering, Computer Science
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