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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
In this study, we investigate how professionals in early childhood education (ECE) reason about multilingualism. Empirical data are analyzed in terms of 'traditions of argumentation' which proposes that we cannot argue for something without, explicitly or implicitly, arguing against something else. The analyses use transcribed data from two focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Persuasive Discourse
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Forssell, Anna – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
To Govern in the name of the future is considered to be an essential part of policy-making in education. In Sweden, this is particularly evident in the political and public rhetoric used in debates on modern schooling and educational reform. However, this is not merely a national phenomenon; rather, educational governance in the name of the future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Teacher Education
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Englund, Tomas – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
If, as the linguistic turn has taught us, there is no representational knowledge, but more agreements and/or struggles over how to talk and learn about what we call reality, we need to address and analyse the consequences of different vocabularies of educational phenomena and schooling, in order to better understand and make use of both the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Curriculum Research, Linguistics, Educational Policy
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Fejes, A.; Nicoll, K. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2011
Relatively little attention has been paid to questions of how language acts in and through the interactions of language in situations where people are encouraged to learn to be active in contexts of work. This paper argues that detailed analysis is needed to understand how activation through language acts in the shaping and governing of workers.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Older Adults, Nursing Homes, Interpersonal Communication
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Lindgren, Joakim; Hult, Agneta; Segerholm, Christina; Rönnberg, Linda – Education Inquiry, 2012
This paper reports on an analysis of how school inspection in Sweden -- its aims, directions and procedures -- is portrayed in texts produced by the responsible national authorities. The study involves a textual analysis of official annual accounts and plans (texts directed to the government, municipalities, schools and the public) produced by the…
Descriptors: School Visitation, Inspection, Governance, Foreign Countries
Berg, Britt-Marie – 1998
In this paper the archeology of social justice is described as discourses of practices concerning Swedish ways of dealing with gender equality in compulsory school. The paper begins with some recent developments in Sweden that are important for the theme; it continues with the rhetoric in some relevant acts, government bills, and national…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities