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Kopnina, Helen – Education Sciences, 2020
This article will discuss social, environmental, and ecological justice in education for sustainable development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG). The concept of sustainable development and, by extension, the ESD, places heavy emphasis on the economic and social aspects of sustainability. However, the ESD falls short of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Justice, Ecology
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Samuelsson, Johan; Wendell, Joakim – Education 3-13, 2017
The topic of this article is how primary school students express ideas about the "origins of the nation." The study is based on texts written by Swedish students aged 12-13 about a historical event well embedded in Swedish national mythology, the rise to power of Swedish "founding father" Gustav Vasa. The analysis is inspired…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, European History
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Kostenius, Catrine; Bergmark, Ulrika – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore Swedish children's positive experiences of health and well-being, and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted. Design/methodology/approach: Totally, 121 schoolchildren between the ages of 10 and 14 from three schools in two municipalities in the northern part of Sweden shared their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Well Being, Knowledge Level, Preadolescents
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Serder, Margareta; Jakobsson, Anders – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
Large-scale assessment, such as the Programme for International Assessment (PISA), plays an increasingly important role in current educational practice and politics. However, many scholars have questioned the validity and reliability of the tests and the extent to which they actually constitute trustworthy representations of students' knowledge.…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Knowledge Level, Scientific Literacy, Assignments
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Wedin, Åsa – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014
This article discusses teachers' attitudes towards immigrant students in poor settings and the effect these attitudes have on organization of education on classroom level. It draws on results from two ethnographic studies where some primary school classes in Sweden were followed with participant observation and interviews as main research methods.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Immigrants, Poverty, Classroom Environment