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Åsa Norman; Mahnoush Etminan Malek; Gisela Nyberg; Emma Patterson; Liselotte Schäfer Elinder – Prevention Science, 2024
Health promotion from an early age is key to preventing unhealthy weight development in childhood, and parental involvement is essential. The school-based Healthy School Start intervention aims to promote healthy dietary and activity habits in the home environment and prevent child obesity through parental support. This study evaluated the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Child Health, Body Weight, Parent Role
Nyström, Sofia; Dahlberg, Johanna; Edelbring, Samuel; Hult, Håkan; Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The increasing complexity of health care practice makes continuing professional development (CPD) essential for health care professionals. Simulation-based training is a CPD activity that is often applied to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of care. The aim of this study is to explore simulation as a pedagogical practice for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Health Services, Professional Development, Simulation
Tolgfors, Björn – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
A common problem in contemporary western societies is segregation, which is also reflected in schools. The point of departure for this study is a political initiative in Sweden, where pupils are being transported by bus from a suburb to different schools in the city with the aim of promoting integration and improved performance results. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Segregation, Physical Education, Busing
McConville, Jennifer R.; Rauch, Sebastien; Helgegren, Ida; Kain, Jaan-Henrik – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: In today's complex society, there is an increasing demand to include a wider set of skills in engineering curricula, especially skills related to policy, society and sustainable development. Role-playing and gaming are active learning tools, which are useful for learning relationships between technology and society, problem solving in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Role Playing
Forsman, Hilma – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
The book-gifting programme, the Letterbox Club, was developed as a response to the increased interest in ways of improving the educational outcomes of children in out-of-home care. By reporting quantitative and qualitative findings from a Swedish trial, and compiling findings from previous British evaluations, the purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Foreign Countries, Books, At Risk Students
Ekstrand, Britten – Educational Review, 2015
Unauthorized absence from school, commonly labelled truancy, absenteeism, and dropout, is a problem that has been increasingly noted in recent years by the National Agency for Education, county councils, communities, and media in Sweden. It is also a prioritized issue in Europe and worldwide. Many students leave school without credentials or a…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Academic Persistence, Dropouts
Lindqvist, Gunilla – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
In Sweden today, special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) are educated at universities to help resolve educational problems related to children in need of special support at three levels, that is, the organisational level, the classroom level and the individual level. Before the education of SENCOs was created in the early 1990s, special…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Special Needs Students
Bohman, Benjamin; Nyberg, Gisela; Sundblom, Elinor; Schäfer Elinder, Liselotte – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Introduction: Measures of parental self-efficacy (PSE) for healthy dietary or physical activity (PA) behaviors in children have been used in several studies; however, further psychometric validation of PSE for these behaviors is needed. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new PSE instrument. Methods:…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Obesity, Prevention
Polesel, John; Keating, Jack – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Located differentially (and to its detriment) within a status hierarchy of knowledge, vocational education has been called upon to satisfy an increasing range of political and social needs, including meeting the needs of industry and government and catering for increasing pupil diversity. Faced with stubbornly immobile rates of school completion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy
Waslander, Sietske; Pater, Cissy; van der Weide, Maartje – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school competition, through policies like abolishing catchment areas, creating voucher programmes and setting up charter schools. These market mechanisms have given rise to fierce debates in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Charter Schools, Educational Objectives
Hermans, Philip – Western European Education, 1988
Examines the provisions made by the Swedish government for the education of immigrants or ethnic minorities. Discussing the program in the city of Skovde, the author outlines the guiding principles and organization for preschool, compulsory school, upper-secondary school, and programs outside the school system. Evaluates the program and its…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Vertovec, Steven – International Social Science Journal, 1998
Discusses immigrants, ethnic minorities, and questions of citizenship in Europe, the role of the city in addressing local citizenship and participation, and the policies and institutions intended to foster participation. Describes the project entitled "Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities." (CMK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups
Wilson, David N. – 1993
This combination report/guide summarizes practical "how-to" information on the development and operation of national training boards that was gathered in a series of case studies of the effectiveness of national training boards in Canada, Singapore, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and in studies of training boards in Australia, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Case Studies