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Direct linkKarin Sporre; Christina Osbeck; Annika Lilja; David Lifmark; Olof Franck; Anna Lyngfelt – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2025
This study draws on a research project where a model of fiction-based ethics education was developed and put into practice during a school year in five classes in compulsory school, two in grade 5 and three in grade 8. A test was constructed with the purpose of evaluating a multi-dimensional ethical competence. The test was given at the beginning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Grade 5, Grade 8
Vinterek, Monika; Winberg, Mikael; Tegmark, Mats; Alatalo, Tarja; Liberg, Caroline – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Even though the importance of extensive reading practice is well documented, as are students' changing leisure-time reading habits, knowledge of how much students read at school is still limited. Therefore, this study investigates how many pages of continuous text, nonfiction as well as fiction, students in middle (Grades 4-6) and lower secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Trends, Reading
Wintersparv, Spoke – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Organizational frameworks in Swedish schools have resulted in instrumentality and measurability. To literature studies, this has led to a focus on comprehension and proficiency at the expense of aesthetic aspects of fiction-reading. This study examines how teachers in Swedish upper secondary schools relate the aesthetic experience to literature…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Swedish, Literature, Secondary School Teachers
Johansson, Maritha – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study explores literature reading and reception of narrative texts among Swedish middle school students. Through a written assignment and a think-aloud protocol, students' comprehension and interpretation of narrative texts are investigated. The study shows that Swedish middle school students tend to focus mainly on the plot. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Writing Assignments
Guanio-Uluru, Lykke – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This article analyses the role of plants in three well publicised Nordic climate fictions for young adults: "Memories of Water" by Emmi Itäranta, originally published in 2012, "The World According to Anna" (2013) by Jostein Gaarder, and "Bouvetøya 2052" (2015) by Lars Maehle. Departing from the wider scholarly field…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Fiction, Adolescent Literature
Lilja, Annika; Franck, Olof; Osbeck, Christina; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lyngfelt, Anna – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers' insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes
Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria; Manni, Annika – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Via thematic content analysis, this article combines approaches from educational and literary research to explore representations of nature, climate change and sustainability "by" children in their own reflections and "for" children in fiction. The primary materials consist of ethnographic studies conducted in Swedish schools…
Descriptors: Climate, Fiction, Environmental Education, Sustainability
Download full textErikson, Malgorzata; Erikson, Martin G.; Punzi, Elisabeth – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The use of fictional literature as "case studies" in psychology education has a potential to support students' learning in various ways. To further the understanding of such applications of fiction, we investigated how clinical psychology students perceived reading fiction as a learning activity. The participants saw benefits for their…
Descriptors: Fiction, Learning Activities, Clinical Psychology, Counselor Training
Graeske, Caroline; Sjöberg, Sofia Aspling; Thunberg, Stina – International Education Studies, 2022
Several studies have shown that Swedish students' reading comprehension and ability to understand fiction are decreasing year by year. Numerous alarming reports point to the unsustainable situation concerning young people's reading engagement, but the ideas of how it can be remedied are few. This study aims to investigate and evaluate a didactic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Fiction, Computer Simulation, Learner Engagement
Ahlquist, Sharon – Education Inquiry, 2023
This article reports on a study in which, for five weeks, the English lessons of two classes of 11--12 year olds in Sweden were based on Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr Fox." To promote the learners' engagement with the text, support understanding, and facilitate incidental vocabulary acquisition, a range of language-focused tasks were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fiction, Childrens Literature, English (Second Language)
Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; Mir, Kamran; Stewart, Bonnie; Costello, Eamon; Mason, Jon; Stracke, Christian M.; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Toquero, Cathy Mae; Singh, Lenandlar; Tlili, Ahmed; Lee, Kyungmee; Nichols, Mark; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Brown, Mark; Irvine, Valerie; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Farrell, Orna; Adam, Taskeen; Thong, Ying Li; Sani-Bozkurt, Sunagul; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Hrastinski, Stefan; Jandric, Petar – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Teacher Role
Morris, Paul – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay reports on the findings of a study of Swedish teenagers who have a free-time interest of creative writing in English. The essay includes extracts from interviews in which the participants explain their motivations to start their writing activity and continue with it over a longer period. Having been inspired initially by a desire to…
Descriptors: Swedish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lars Wallner – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This article explores booktalk situations in which student teachers discuss a narrative text and construct in situ accounts of learning when recalling their reading. This study contributes to knowledge about the role of narrative fiction in general educational practice, as well as to the understanding of situated constructions of learning. Video…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Fiction, Books, Student Teachers
Dylman, Alexandra S.; Blomqvist, Emilia; Champoux-Larsson, Marie-France – Educational Psychology, 2020
Previous research has found that reading increases overall vocabulary size, and that reading fiction, specifically, is associated with higher levels of empathy and better perspective-taking skills. The current study investigated a potential link between reading habits and emotional vocabulary in particular, to assess whether the link between…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Secondary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Emotional Response
Lyngfelt, Anna; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lilja, Annika; Osbeck, Christina; Franck, Olof – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The overarching aim is to explore what teachers perceive as the opportunities provided by using literature in ethics education in compulsory school. When being interviewed, in what ways do the teachers express views on the potential of fiction to encourage students to accept certain human conditions as imaginable, or to create motivation for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Fiction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
