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Direct linkJonas Udd – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
In this article, Special Educational Needs Coordinators' (SENCOs) boundary work in Swedish upper-secondary school is examined in comparison with similar special education professionals in a Nordic context. Here, boundary work is understood as SENCOs' attempts to shape and influence boundaries, distinctions and demarcations between agents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Special Education, Coordinators
Jenny Bengtsson; Johannes Lunneblad – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper explores how school community collaboration is given meaning by municipally employed coordinators whose task is to organise collaboration between schools and other actors in urban areas in Sweden. Inspired by Carol Bacchi's theorisation of the constitutive aspect of discerning problems, it examines how coordinators give meaning to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Urban Areas
Ulrika Gustafsson; Anders D. Olofsson; Peter Bergström – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The aim of this study was to explore, analyse, and critically discuss conditions for Swedish ICT coordinators working on school digitalisation in a local municipal school context. More specifically, the study draws on findings from interviews with 13 Swedish information and communication technology (ICT) coordinators working in eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Municipalities
Holmgren, Martin – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2023
As society has gotten increasingly digitalized, schools have made extensive efforts to accommodate to that development. With the digitalization of school, the special education practice and the roles of special education needs coordinators (SENCOs) and special education teachers (SETs) change. However, there is a lack of research examining this…
Descriptors: Special Education, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Practices
Udd, Jonas; Berndtsson, Inger – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
This article explores nine SENCOs' lived experiences of the changes, challenges and opportunities which arose when working in Swedish upper secondary schools through the spring term of 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article provides further insights into the particulars of the SENCOs' line of work and also aims to say something about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers
Maria Olsson; Jenny Ericson; Eva Randell; Désirée von Ahlefeld Nisser – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This article contributes knowledge regarding professionals' experiences, conceptions, and expectations of a coordinator role in preschools/schools while multiprofessionally collaborating for supporting children "at risk". Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with professionals involved in a project in a Swedish municipality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coordinators, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Hjelte, Jan; Ineland, Jens – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The aim of this article is to analyse how professionals in special needs upper secondary schools in Sweden -- assistants, teachers and Special Education Needs Coordinators -- understand and define quality in their daily interactions with students who have intellectual disabilities. Our analysis draws on data collected via a digital questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Intellectual Disability, Special Education Teachers
Göransson, Kerstin; Lindqvist, Gunilla; Nilholm, Claes – Educational Research, 2015
Background: There are two occupational groups in Sweden that are expected to have significant impact on educational work related to children in need of special support. These two groups are special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) and special education teachers. In this paper, we use the collective name "special educators" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Role
Sammalisto, Kaisu; Arvidsson, Karin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2005
Purpose: This study of environment management systems implementation in Swedish universities contributes to the dialogue about the role of management systems as tools in developing sustainability in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical study is based on Government directives that make environmental management systems…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Foreign Countries, Presidents
