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Direct linkMaria Papakosma – European Educational Research Journal, 2025
This article examines the contemporary Swedish policy responses to increased cultural and linguistic diversity in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). More specifically, it explores how national authorities and organizations initiate collaborations, use and produce policy knowledge and identify priorities and challenges. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Cultural Pluralism
Matilda Lindberg – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
Supporting pupils' development regarding subject knowledge and disciplinary literacy is a complex and challenging task for teachers. Research shows that language-integrated physical education (PE) can assist children's language development. However, it tends to reduce the time for physical activity, which is problematic since youth's physical…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Children
Eva Medin; Ylva Svensson; Göran Jutengren – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
To explore young adolescents' negotiation of their national identity in an educational context, we individually interviewed nine students (ages 10-14) with different backgrounds attending an ethnically diverse school in Sweden. The transcribed interviews were thematically and qualitatively analyzed. Results show that students negotiated their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents, Ethnicity
Miika Kekki; Jonna Linde – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
This article analyses the professional agency of counsellors working with migrants. Using Bernstein's concepts of classification and framing, our thematic analysis draws on interviews with career counsellors from both Finland and Sweden. The results highlight a need for counsellors to recognise the differences in situations of students with…
Descriptors: Counselor Qualifications, Immigrants, School Counselors, Knowledge Level
Helena Roos; Anette Bagger – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
This study focuses on ethical dilemmas that arise in moments of inclusion and equity in mathematics teaching and how they might be tackled through teachers' professional judgment. Skovsmose's inclusive landscapes of investigation approach was used to design the study and to collect teachers' joint reflections on moments of inclusion and equity in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Equal Education, Mathematics Instruction, Inclusion
Pantea Rinnemaa – Social Studies, 2024
This article examines Swedish civics teachers' perspectives on difficulties and opportunities that their second-language (L2) students encounter when reading textbook texts in civics. The study is based on individual semi-structured interviews with teachers in Grade 9. Civics teachers report uncertainty about identifying the source of difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity
Uddling, Jenny; Reath Warren, Anne – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
Research indicates that encouraging translanguaging can enhance learning in a range of contexts. However, there are few studies examining translanguaging for learning among newcomers in science education. This case study fills this research gap by examining in what ways a newcomer to the school uses translanguaging practices with his classmate to…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Physics, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication
Download full textHelene Uppin; Kimberly Norrman; Anne-Mai Näkk; Linn Areskoug; Inge Timoštšuk; Solveig Cornér; Erika Löfström – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2025
Learning in diverse settings during pre-service teacher training equips future primary teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach in authentic learning environments later in their work lives. This experience helps to meet the varying needs of their future students who have increasingly diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers
Miklikowska, Marta; Eckstein, Katharina; Matera, Joanna – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Although classrooms have been described as an important socialization agent for the development of intergroup attitudes, the role of classroom climate has rarely been investigated. This 5-wave study of Swedish adolescents (N = 892, 51.1% girls, nested in 35 classrooms) examined the role of cooperative classroom climate for the development of youth…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Adolescents, Cooperation, Student Attitudes
Chronaki, Anna; Planas, Núria; Svensson Källberg, Petra – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background: The focus on translanguaging practices in multilingual classrooms can be seen, by and large, as responding to risks of violence entailed in diverse contexts of language use, including the teaching and learning of mathematics. However, the practice of translanguaging alone cannot counteract the hegemonic authority of monolingual and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
Walldén, Robert; Nygård Larsson, Pia – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This article focuses on how Grade 6 students interactionally make meaning out of subject-related language encountered in civics textbook material by searching for synonyms and engaging in discussions. Employing ethnographically-inspired methods, data was collected through observations and audio recordings of civics teaching in two linguistically…
Descriptors: Civics, Grade 6, Academic Language, Language Usage
Mathilda Tassinari Rogalin; Gian Piero Turchi; Luisa Orrù – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2024
The number of students diagnosed with autism is increasing. In Sweden, it is today possible to find both special classes and special schools dedicated to students with autism. This study explores the meaning that the diagnosis assumes in two special educational contexts. Data were collected from interviews with 23 students and questionnaires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Special Education
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
Lucie Weissova; Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans; Darko Pantelic – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Contemporary higher education institutions are marked by diverse, internationalized classrooms that bring together various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. However, realizing the full potential of this diversity poses challenges, as academics, key players in maximizing the benefits of international classrooms, often lack the necessary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Adult Learning, Faculty Development
Åkesson, Emilia – Gender and Education, 2023
In this paper I use a feminist corpomaterial lens to examine how students are shaped by and shape their education. The analysis, based on individual and group interviews with twelve student teachers, shows how intersectional somatic norms in teacher education produce situations where students feel forced to educate, inform and take responsibility…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Intersectionality, Teacher Education
