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Åberg-Bengtsson, Lisbeth; Beach, Dennis; Ljung-Djärf, Agneta – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Explanatory pictures and models are frequently used in teaching and learning situations. However, it seems to be simply assumed that they are always beneficial. In this article results from an investigation with 16 Swedish pupils aged 7-9 year are presented based on an analysis that has examined how well this assumption holds up. Concepts from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Jansson, Gunilla; Wadensjö, Cecilia; Plejert, Charlotta – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Troubles-telling and complaints are common in contexts of care for older people and need to be managed by care staff in a respectful manner. This paper examines the handling of an older person's complaints in multilingual care encounters that involve participants who do not share a common language. The data consist of video-recordings and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Older Adults, Video Technology, Ethnography
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Sjöberg, David; Karp, Staffan; Söderström, Tor – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This article examines simulations of critical incidents in police education by investigating how activities in the preparation phase influence participants' actions and thus the conditions for learning professional knowledge. The study is based on interviews in two stages (traditional and stimulated recall interviews) with six selected students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Simulation, Police Education, Video Technology
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Olsson, Ulf – Open Praxis, 2017
Academics in higher education are used to having their research publications reviewed and openly scrutinized. Teaching in higher education has traditionally been an individual academic's activity that has taken place in a closed classroom. However, the introduction of open education, particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs) has challenged…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Semi Structured Interviews