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Uusimaki, Liisa; Garvis, Susanne – Journal of International Students, 2020
The purpose of this article is to present a qualitative study exploring a small cohort of nine international students' in-depth reflections about their teaching and learning experiences studying at a major Swedish University. Interestingly while there have been numerous studies reporting on the experiences of international students attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Cultural Differences, College Students
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Star, Jon R.; Tuomela, Dimitri; Joglar-Prieto, Nuria; Hästö, Peter; Palkki, Riikka; Abánades, Miguel Á.; Pejlare, Johanna; Jiang, R. H.; Li, Lijia; Liu, Ru-De – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: In this cross-national study, Spanish, Finnish, and Swedish middle and high school students' procedural flexibility was examined, with the specific intent of determining whether and how students' equation-solving accuracy and flexibility varied by country, age, and/or academic track. The 791 student participants were asked to solve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Problem Solving
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Asami-Johansson, Yukiko; Attorps, Iiris; Winsløw, Carl – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate and compare lessons given in primary school teacher education in Japan, Finland and Sweden. We analyse one lesson from each country and compare them using a common framework. Chevallard's anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD) is used to frame this analysis and in particular to model teacher educators'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Hudson, Christopher; Luguetti, Carla; Spaaij, Ramon – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
The field of physical education (PE), sport, and forced migration studies has grown considerably in recent years. Although we have seen an increase in publications in the field, no reviews of pedagogies regarding people with refugee backgrounds in PE and sport have been published to date. The purpose of this review is to critically examine…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Refugees, Cultural Differences
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Linnér, Susanne; Larsson, Lena; Gerdin, Göran; Philpot, Rod; Schenker, Katarina; Westlie, Knut; Mordal Moen, Kjersti; Smith, Wayne – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
For more than 40 years, health and physical education (HPE) academics in universities and teacher education colleges have drawn attention to issues of social justice specific to the context of PE and advocated for teachers in fields, gymnasiums and other physical activity spaces to do a better job of promoting more equitable outcomes for all…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
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Condon, Lara; Koljonen, Tuula; Remillard, Janine T.; Krzywacki, Heidi; Van Steenbrugge, Hendrik – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Cross-cultural research covering multiple languages and cultures involves negotiating conceptual and linguistic challenges. This paper focuses on how researchers working across cultural and linguistic boundaries navigate the research process and negotiate a common understanding of the constructs under study. Working towards intersubjectivity…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Differences, Second Language Learning
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Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Chihab, Laura; Herrmann, Klaus; Schlottmann, Antje; Nöthen, Eva – Geography Teacher, 2020
What is known about places we have not been to before we learn from maps, geographical magazines, or maybe travel reports. Ordinarily, this information is for granted without reflecting on its origin and underlying theoretical premises. Usually, this lack of reflection does not appear as problematic. However, what can can be learned from the fact…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Spatial Ability, Geographic Concepts
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Walldén, Robert – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This contribution explores how subject positions and perspectives are negotiated in the discursive practices of teaching social studies. The study involved a teacher and a group of second-language learners in Grade 6, the data being gathered by observations, voice recordings, and collection of teaching materials throughout seven weeks. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Minorities, Grade 6, Second Language Learning
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Loinaz, Edurne Scott – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
The central motive for conducting this research was to investigate how Greece, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom treat social and emotional education (SEE) within pedagogical practice. The study used a sequential quantitative-qualitative analysis with a comparative design, with 750 teachers in the initial quantitative phase participating in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Kaçar, Isil Günseli – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Study/Teach abroad experiences, are shown to impact prospective teachers' beliefs and values, offering exposure to diverse educational systems and teaching philosophies. This qualitative exploratory case study aimed to investigate the impact of the Comenius language assistantship program on the sociolinguistic perspectives and meaning schemes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Sundqvist, Annette; Holmer, Emil; Koch, Felix-Sebastian; Heimann, Mikael – Infant and Child Development, 2018
This study explored the development of theory of mind (ToM) in 80 Swedish-speaking 3- to 5-year-olds, a previously unstudied language and culture. The ToM scale was translated and tested in a Swedish context. The results show that the ToM abilities improve significantly with age. In addition, a gender difference was observed for the whole sample,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Hemmi, Kirsti; Ryve, Andreas – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2015
This article explores effective mathematics teaching as constructed in Finnish and Swedish teacher educators' discourses. Based on interview data from teacher educators as well as data from feedback discussions between teacher educators and prospective teachers in Sweden and Finland, the analysis shows that several aspects of the recent…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Educators, Interviews, Educational Change
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Thorstensson Dávila, Liv – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article presents a qualitative study of how the individual roles and ideologies of four Arabic and Somali bilingual classroom assistants at an elementary school in Sweden both mirror and challenge larger discourses about language, education and social integration. Data were analyzed using the theoretical constructs of positioning and reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Role Models, Bilingualism
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Herrera, Lázaro Moreno – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
Depending on the perspective and even language, the concept of didactics is defined in different ways. The debate about conceptualization, particularly concerning the equivalence in English of what in other languages, specifically Germanic and Latin languages, is termed "didactics", is well documented in the research literature. There is…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Cross Cultural Studies
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