Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 5 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 11 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 17 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Tholin, Jörgen | 2 |
Torpsten, Ann-Christin | 2 |
Amir, Alia | 1 |
Annbritt Palo | 1 |
Atar, Cihat | 1 |
Bateman, Amanda | 1 |
Belancic, Kristina | 1 |
Bergentoft, Rune | 1 |
Björk-Willén, Polly | 1 |
Björklund, Mikaela, Ed. | 1 |
Björklund, Siv, Ed. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 16 |
Reports - Research | 13 |
Reports - Evaluative | 4 |
Collected Works - General | 2 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 5 |
Secondary Education | 4 |
Early Childhood Education | 3 |
Elementary Education | 3 |
Preschool Education | 3 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Administrators | 1 |
Practitioners | 1 |
Researchers | 1 |
Students | 1 |
Location
Sweden | 24 |
Norway | 3 |
Denmark | 2 |
Finland | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
California | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
Cyprus | 1 |
Greenland | 1 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
Iceland | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Åsa Bjuhr; Annbritt Palo; Lena Manderstedt – Intercultural Education, 2024
In Sweden, curricula and syllabi for education are politically determined after public consultations. Thus, these educational documents are discursive trade-offs reflecting research, traditions in the educational system, and political ideologies. This study maps the discourses in the syllabus for Sami as L1 mother tongue for preschool class-Year…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Drachmann, Natascha; Haukås, Åsta; Lundberg, Adrian – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
In Scandinavia, plurilingualism has been embraced as an important goal in language curricula. However, research shows that teachers struggle to understand what plurilingualism is and how it can be implemented. To address this lack of clarity, we analysed the curricula for the three main language subjects of schooling in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Teaching Methods, Mutual Intelligibility, Foreign Countries
Bateman, Amanda; Cekaite, Asta – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Globally, there has been increasing adaptation of curricula frameworks in early childhood education, providing overarching principles of practice rather than subject specific templates for teaching and learning. While such a movement is to be commended as supporting a socio-cultural approach in meeting each child's unique social and cultural…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Literacy Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Curriculum
Tholin, Jörgen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
In Swedish compulsory school, students can choose to study a modern language in addition to English, i.e., French, Spanish, or German. Since 1994, instruction time for modern languages has been extended, the learning objectives have been made more attainable, and national assessment materials have been introduced. The government made these changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Björklund, Siv, Ed.; Björklund, Mikaela, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fearn, Lesley June – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is crucial in most secondary schools within the EU and many other schools worldwide. Some teachers are integrating Online Community Projects (OCPs) into their curricula to provide a means of communication that motivates learning and incites learner-centred methods. This collaborative Action Research study…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Paulsrud, BethAnne; Zilliacus, Harriet; Ekberg, Lena – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
Both Sweden and Finland have education systems promoting equity and equality. However, recent societal and political changes linked to increased immigration have created new challenges in efforts to support linguistic diversity. This paper aims to explore how multilingualism is represented in the national compulsory school curricula in the two…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Belancic, Kristina; Lindgren, Eva – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Sami are Indigenous languages spoken by the Sami people in the northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia. All Sami languages are endangered because of historically aggressive assimilation policies. Currently Sami communities are working actively with language revitalisation processes. This article examines pupils' access to knowledge in and about…
Descriptors: Languages, Swedish, Course Descriptions, Acculturation
Atar, Cihat; Amir, Alia – Online Submission, 2018
The goal of this study is to analyze two English textbooks used in Sweden from a sociolinguistic perspective. This is a qualitative study, and the Sociolinguistic Textbook Evaluation Rubric (Atar & Erdem, 2020) consisting of six items was used to analyze the textbooks. The items of the rubric were applied to the textbooks, and the results were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Reath Warren, Anne – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2013
The model of Mother Tongue Tuition (MTT) which has developed in Sweden since the 1970's offers speakers of languages other than Swedish the opportunity to request tuition in their mother tongue, from kindergarten through to year 12. It is unique among the major immigrant-receiving countries of the world yet little is known about MTT and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tuition, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Puskás, Tünde; Björk-Willén, Polly – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
This article explores dilemmatic aspects of language policies in a preschool group in which three languages (Swedish, Romani and Arabic) are spoken on an everyday basis. The article highlights the interplay between policy decisions on the societal level, the teachers' interpretations of these policies, as well as language practices on the micro…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Language Usage, Ethnography
Hult, Francis M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
The Swedish educational policy for upper secondary English, which took effect in 2011 and adopts a globalised perspective on language, is explored with respect to how skills and awareness related to local, national, and international roles of English are represented in policy documents. A discourse analytic approach to language policy is used to…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
Magnusson, Ulrika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2013
This article analyzes and compares the curricula of Swedish and Swedish as a second language for primary and secondary school. The school subject of Swedish as a second language is young, and its ideological foundation has not been debated to any large extent, in contrast to Swedish. This article analyzes the curricula of both subjects in terms of…
Descriptors: Swedish, Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Multilingualism
Torpsten, Ann-Christin – Online Submission, 2012
In this paper, the author focuses on educational values and second language learners' experiences from education. She is using a life story approach. Overarching aim of the presentation is to discuss second language teacher students' encountering with Swedish school, mother tongue tuition, second language and multilingualism. The goal was achieved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Student Experience
Torpsten, Ann-Christin – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to show second-language pupils' experiences in school and their understanding of school through analysis of how they talk about the multilingual primary school and instruction. These stories about school life are studied with a life story approach, and the research process can be described in three steps: tell,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2