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Cassandra Poikela; Ola Lindberg; Ulrika Haake; Oscar Rantatalo; Alva Lindholm – Vocations and Learning, 2025
In this study, we examine the conditions for participation in criminal investigation practices among two professional categories: police officers and civilians. Specifically, we analyse how participation is shaped and conditioned through the use of symbols and symbolic actions in relation to doing gender and professional identity. The Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Law Enforcement, Gender Issues
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Andersson, Elias; Johansson, Kristina – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2022
The relation between the concepts and practices of gender mainstreaming and organisational learning, and its prerequisite for change, is not well understood in either research or practice. Drawing on a participatory design process of a model for assessing the potential of gender equality interventions to change gendered organisations, this study…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Gender Bias, Sex Fairness, Gender Issues
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Åkesson, Emilia – Gender and Education, 2023
In this paper I use a feminist corpomaterial lens to examine how students are shaped by and shape their education. The analysis, based on individual and group interviews with twelve student teachers, shows how intersectional somatic norms in teacher education produce situations where students feel forced to educate, inform and take responsibility…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Intersectionality, Teacher Education
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Rantala, Anna; Heikkilä, Mia – Education 3-13, 2020
Social interaction is one of the many things what preschool life is about, and how social life is constituted is of importance to understand. In early childhood education settings, children are guided and fostered by teachers and by each other in different directions. The overall aim of the article is to make a contribution to a deeper…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Discipline, Power Structure
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Gillander Gådin, Katja; Stein, Nan – Gender and Education, 2019
Sexual harassment has become so frequent and ubiquitous in schools that these behaviours have become normalised and expected. In order to prevent the re-enactment and perpetuation of this problem, it is important to explore processes that contribute to its existence. A high school sexual harassment lawsuit in Sweden is used as a case study to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Harassment, High School Students, High Schools
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Nordvall, Henrik; Wieslander, Malin – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
Feminist educators often encounter different forms of resistance from both male and female participants. This article uses a neo-Gramscian theoretical perspective to discuss the importance of considering this resistance when analyzing the relationship between pedagogical design and outcomes. The study draws on survey data and participant…
Descriptors: Feminism, Resistance (Psychology), Workshops, Gender Issues
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Ljusberg, Anna-Lena – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
This article is based on data from a two-year ethnographic study on children in school-age child-care in Sweden. It describes a boy's way from positioning himself as a "boy who does not fight" to a "boy who fights". In Sweden, independence is viewed as paramount. Fostering children to independence can be seen from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Social Development, Social Influences
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Barker, Dean; Quennerstedt, Mikael – European Physical Education Review, 2017
Group work is used in physical education (PE) to encourage student-directed, collaborative learning. Aligned with this aim, group work is expected to shift some power from teacher to students and enable students to make decisions and co-construct meaning on their own. There are, however, very few investigations focusing on power in group work…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Power Structure, Group Dynamics
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Edström, Charlotta; Brunila, Kristiina – Education as Change, 2016
This article concerns gender equality work, that is, those educational and workplace activities that involve the promotion of gender equality. It is based on research conducted in Sweden and Finland, and focuses on the period during which the public sector has become more market-oriented and project-based all over the Nordic countries. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Gender Issues, Educational Practices
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Mattsson, Torun; Lundvall, Suzanne – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Dance has been a part of the physical education (PE) curriculum in several countries for a long time. In spite of this, studies demonstrate that the position of dance in the subject of PE is contested and that little time is devoted to dance. The overall aim of this article is to examine the position of dance as a pedagogical discourse in Swedish…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Dance, Status, Discourse Analysis
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Murstedt, Linda; Jansson, Maria; Wendt, Maria; Åse, Cecilia – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
Research has shown that teaching gender theories tends to be an educational challenge and elicits student resistance. However, little is known about students' learning processes in social science. This study aims to explore these learning processes by drawing on feminist pedagogy and conceptual change theory. The results show that when students…
Descriptors: Feminism, Instruction, Gender Issues, College Students
Holmlund, Kerstin – Online Submission, 2012
This article describes and compares the differences between a feature-oriented understanding and a relational understanding of a child's behavior and the different ways of educating children which these two empirical and theoretical perspectives offer. The feature-oriented perspective focuses on the nature and character of impoverished children as…
Descriptors: Poverty, Child Health, Comprehension, Educational Methods
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Ayton, Katarina – Ethnography and Education, 2012
The focus of this article is children's positioning and agency in a Swedish school class. Drawing on ethnographic data generated during a year-long field study, the actions of three different children are used by the researcher to illustrate how children position themselves and are positioned by others. Using the concept of "professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Observation, Educational Research
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Hesse-Biber, Sharlene – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2012
This article explores the deployment of triangulation in the service of uncovering subjugated knowledge and promoting social change for women and other oppressed groups. Feminist approaches to mixed methods praxis create a tight link between the research problem and the research design. An analysis of selected case studies of feminist praxis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Mixed Methods Research, Feminism
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Arreman, Inger Erixon – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article explores the development and effects of Swedish post-war policies on the emergence of a research base for teacher education. From 2001 onwards, it is possible to undertake research and postgraduate studies within teacher education in Sweden, which prior to the 2001 reform was not possible. The article draws on a variety of frameworks…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Public Policy