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Johan Lind – Design and Technology Education, 2024
Given the profound influence that technology has on society, shaping our behaviours, conversations, and decisions, it is essential to understand its development and nature. Obtaining a complete understanding of technology requires us to explore both the nature of technology and its historical aspects. This study examines how using supportive…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Interaction
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Sandra Carlsson; Sara Willermark – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The digitalization of schools has intensified in recent years. It is reflected in policy documents as well as in extensive investments in digital technology and professional development initiatives to promote digitalization. At the same time, attempts are being made to "tame" the same digitization sometimes by regulations…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Vocational Education
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Björn Citrohn – Design and Technology Education, 2023
This study investigates, and further develops, a framework for analyzing technological knowledge emanating from school design projects; a framework that has the potential to be used as a tool for teachers when choosing and planning design projects. The study also intends to answer the research question: What technological knowledge, associated to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Christina Löfving – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In a digital society, teachers are required to carry out policy directives on both core knowledge and more vaguely described cross-curricular competences, one being digital competence. This paper reports on the findings of a study in which 41 teachers from three lower secondary schools in Sweden engaged in focus group interviews where they…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technological Literacy, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
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Charlotta Nordlöf; Gunnar Höst; Jonas Hallström – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: The subject of technology looks different depending on context. There is also an epistemological complexity to technological knowledge in technology education. Purpose: To gain a deeper understanding of the epistemological foundations of the subject of technology and technology teaching, the teachers' views are needed. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Epistemology
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Leino Lindell, Tiina – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2020
Purpose: The digitalization of society places new demands on education. It is apparent since most countries have introduced curricula requirements to digitalize teaching. This study examines the organizational support teachers need to digitalize teaching. The study is being conducted in Sweden because they have experienced challenges with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Instructional Innovation
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Wennås Brante, Eva; Walldén, Robert – Education Inquiry, 2023
Given young children's frequent use of the internet and the expectations formulated in policy documents such as the Swedish national curriculum, teachers need to promote critical awareness about information found online, even in the earliest years of schooling. Responding to the need for more information about how first-graders understand the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Internet, Information Technology
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Kristina Ström; Gerd Pettersson; Kim Wickman – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2024
With advances in communication technologies, remote special educational consultation has become a promising strategy for indirect special education provision aiming to support students with special educational needs as well as their teachers in remote and rural areas. This study explores how special educators in a rural municipality in Sweden…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Special Education, Educational Technology, Teacher Attitudes
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Schooner, Patrick; Höst, Gunnar; Klasander, Claes; Hallström, Jonas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In technology education, assessment is challenging and underdeveloped as it is a nascent practice and teachers do not have a well-defined subject tradition to lean on when assessing students. The aim of this study is to explore Swedish secondary technology teachers' cognitive beliefs about assessing students' learning of technological systems, in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Technology Education, Secondary School Teachers
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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
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Lundesjö Kvart, Susanne; Melander Bowden, Helen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study explores the instruction of "equestrian feel" as an interactional accomplishment. Equestrian feel is an embodied knowledge encompassing riders' ability to feel the horse's actions and to act appropriately. Building on ethnomethodological and conversation analytic analyses of video-recordings of riding lessons, we explore how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Semiotics, Animals, Knowledge Level
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Caroline Forsell; Per Westerlind – Design and Technology Education, 2024
This study investigated student's knowledge and understanding of mechanical stress including strain, and the relation between mechanical stress and strain, using material created by the authors of this text. It also investigated what the students perceived helpful for learning. The material was a complete laboratory setup and was intended to be…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Concepts, Science Laboratories, Foreign Countries
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Remmen, Kari Beate; Iversen, Elisabeth – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
Although there is a notion of a 'Nordic tradition' of outdoor education in the international literature, research from the Nordic countries is rarely included in research reviews. Therefore, this scoping review provides an overview of empirical studies on outdoor education (grades 1-13) from the Nordic countries. Of the 586 hits, 52 studies met…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Attitudes
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Schooner, Patrick; Klasander, Claes; Hallström, Jonas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
Technology education is a new school subject in comparison with other subjects within the Swedish compulsory school system. Research in technology education shows that technology teachers lack experience of and support for assessment in comparison with the long-term experiences that other teachers use in their subjects. This becomes especially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Sundqvist, Pernilla – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Developments in early childhood education (ECE) over the last two decades have for many countries meant a change towards a more subject-oriented pedagogy in which preschool staff are commissioned to teach technology to young children. This has been proved to be a challenge to the staff. Through analysis of activities at two preschool units, this…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Knowledge Level, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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