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Johan Liljestrand; David Carlsson; Linda Jonsson; Peder Thalén – British Journal of Religious Education, 2025
Christian plurality is challenging for a religious education teacher in a classroom of students with different orientations of Christianity, not least due to immigration. As Christianity represents an essential component of the majority culture in many European countries, in this study we examine how it is represented in religious education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Religious Education, Textbooks
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Ekholm, David; Dahlstedt, Magnus – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
In this article, we explore the pedagogies of (de)liberation promoted in the sports-based intervention Midnight Football (MF), carried out in a suburban and socio-economically disadvantaged residential area in Sweden. Based on interviews with coaches and managers and on-site observations, we examine how socio-pedagogical rationalities and…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Social Integration, Suburbs, Disadvantaged
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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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Lunneblad, Johannes; Johansson, Thomas – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
Today there is a strong tendency to involve local citizens in community work, and to mobilize social forces in poor urban districts. We will focus on one specific method used to educate and help immigrant parents raise and foster their children. This method is described as part of a wider ambition to integrate and involve immigrants in Swedish…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Participation, Multicultural Education, Teaching Methods
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Stoltz, Pauline – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2011
In this article I compare the lines of argumentation that are used in two public debates about the introduction of national canons in Sweden and the Netherlands. These arguments illustrate how different political actors understand the balance they think should be struck between the interests of individual children and society in obtaining social…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Social Integration
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Nilsson, Jenny; Axelsson, Monica – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2013
Education for newly arrived students in Sweden is commonly organised in introductory classes, providing a basis for transition to the mainstream system. Focusing on the hitherto underinvestigated question of how newly arrived students experience the time in and transition between introductory and regular classes, we analyse the social and…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Semi Structured Interviews, Municipalities, Teaching Methods
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Kalin, Jana, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
Papers from the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society was submitted in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers submitted at the conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 14-17, 2016. Volume 2 contains papers submitted at the 4th International Partner Conference of the International Research Centre…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Comparative Education, Educational History
Bostrom, Ann Kristin; Boudard, Emmanuel; Siminou, Petroula – 2001
The extent to which vocational education and training (VET) policy is nurturing lifelong learning in Sweden was examined through a review of recent policy documents issued by various Swedish government agencies and data from comparative studies compiled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Adult…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education)