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Svensson, Martina; Wagnsson, Stefan; Gustafsson, Henrik – Educational Research, 2021
Background: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication style used to enhance behaviour change, and there is increasing support for using MI in schools. However, little is known about school-based MI from a teacher perspective and how MI is applied by teachers in their daily work. Understanding teachers' use and experiences of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Henry, Alastair – Language Learning Journal, 2017
In order to reinstate interest and motivation for learning foreign languages (FLs) other than English, the Swedish government has recently reformed the system for admission to higher education. Upper secondary students who continue with the FL learnt in secondary school are rewarded with extra credits that considerably enhance their grade point…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, French, Grade Point Average
Lindberg, Ola; Rantatalo, Oscar; Stenling, Cecilia – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature concerned with bodily perspectives on professional learning by reporting on a study of Swedish police officers' sport participation as a form of occupational learning. The study seeks to answer how ideals of work practice and sport participation intersect, how professional learning is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Professional Development, Police
Dovemark, Marianne; Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2016
A demand on national economies in the 1970s was that they should begin to increase their labour market flexibility, which came to mean transferring risks and insecurity onto workers. Education was one way to prepare future workers for this new situation. The present article examines this preparation of learning for precarity some 40 years on. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Academic Education, Vocational Education
Magnell, Marie; Geschwind, Lars; Kolmos, Anette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to identify faculty perspectives on the integration of work-related issues in engineering education. A mixed methods approach was used to explore faculty attitudes towards work-related learning, to describe activities related to working life that have been introduced into the curriculum and to identify factors that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Integrated Activities, Mixed Methods Research, Learning Activities
Arreman, Inger Erixon; Erixon, Per-Olof; Rehn, Karl-Gunnar – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
Long before Namibia's independence in 1990, Sweden initiated a policy dialogue with Namibia's future political leadership. This article reviews the impact of an educational reform in Namibia in the early 1990s called the Integrated Teacher Training Programme (ITTP), which was an outcome of collaboration between the South West African People's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, International Cooperation
Bradley, Linda; Lindström, Nataliya Berbyuk; Hashemi, Sylvana Sofkova – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the mobile activities newly arrived migrants are engaged in when learning the Swedish language and about Swedish culture and society. Further, the study also explores the use of a mobile application (app) provided to the newly arrived migrants to use for pronunciation practice. The study involved 38…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Swedish, Cultural Awareness
Galan, Nataliya; Khodabandehloo, Akbar – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to report the results of implementation of blogging within a LinkedIn discussion group in an international marketing course for a multicultural group of students focusing on the students' perceptions of the subject-related blogging. Design/Methodology/ Approach: This study adopts a qualitative approach; data have been…
Descriptors: International Trade, Marketing, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites
Severinsson, Susanne; Nord, Catharina; Reimers, Eva – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
In Sweden and elsewhere, students permanently excluded from school are removed from their local environment, and sometimes their parental home, and moved to a rural residential care home. Thus "home" and "school" are clearly considered places where problems exist, but it is the young people themselves who are scrutinised and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Programs, Residential Care, Environmental Influences
Choque Olsson, Nora; Rautio, Daniel; Asztalos, Jenny; Stoetzer, Ulrich; Bölte, Sven – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Systematic reviews show some evidence for the efficacy of group-based social skills group training in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, but more rigorous research is needed to endorse generalizability. In addition, little is known about the perspectives of autistic individuals participating in social skills group training.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
Berggren, Björn; Fili, Andreas; Nordberg, Olle – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2015
Assessment through new technology has gained a firm foothold within the university system in the last decade. This paper summarizes the experiences that have been made during the introduction of digital examination over the past two years at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The experiences are divided between three different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Experience, Student Experience
Mc Hugh, Elaine; Starke, Mikaela – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Training for support workers who work with parents with intellectual disability can be aided by understanding how they perceive the training process and their competence development. This study explored the perceptions of competence development and the training process in Swedish support workers trained in the evidence-informed programme…
Descriptors: Parents, Intellectual Disability, Training, Competence
Lindqvist, Marcia J. P. Håkansson – Computers in the Schools, 2015
The uptake and use of digital technologies is studied in Unos Umeå, a joint one-to-one (1:1) research project between Umeå University and the municipality of Umeå in Sweden. This article presents the results of the third phase of the classroom work with laptops. Using the ecology of resources model (Luckin, 2010), these possibilities and…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Cross, Stephanie Behm; Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2016
It has been a year since Sarah and Brian traveled to Malmo, Sweden, as part of a fellowship through their U.S. teacher preparation program. Their experience was unique and life changing, not only because it occurred in another country but because they completed their student teaching in a paired format. They planned and implemented all of their…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Study Abroad, Student Teaching, Teamwork
Angarne-Lindberg, Teresia; Wadsby, Marie – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Studies focusing on mothers' own reports of their experience with intervention programmes are rare, so very little has been known about their evaluations of the programmes and what they have learned. The aim of the present study was to use interviews to evaluate these aspects of an intervention programme. The interviews were designed to capture…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Early Intervention, Mothers, Infants