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Holmberg Bergman, T.; Renhorn, E.; Berg, B.; Lappalainen, P.; Ghaderi, A.; Hirvikoski, T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities report high levels of distress, but systematically evaluated interventions are few. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a novel, manualized Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group intervention ("Navigator ACT") in a sample of 94 parents of children with…
Descriptors: Parents, Children, Disabilities, Group Therapy
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Malin Ekesryd Nordström – Roeper Review, 2025
There is insufficient Swedish research on giftedness and home-school collaboration and meeting gifted children's needs in early childhood education. This qualitative study explored these issues by interviewing parents of gifted children. The thematic analysis examined parents' descriptions of children's early development, asynchronicity, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent School Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Gifted
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Wieslander, Kajsa Norberg; Höglund, Anna T.; Frygner-Holm, Sara; Godskesen, Tove – Research Ethics, 2023
Research ethics committees (RECs) have a crucial role in protecting children in research. However, studies on REC members' perspectives on paediatric research are scarce. We conducted a qualitative study to explore Swedish scientific REC members' perspectives on ethical aspects in applications involving children with severe health conditions. The…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Administration, Pediatrics, Advisory Committees
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Siebecke, Deborah Elin; Jarl, Maria – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: A variety of studies point to a deterioration of educational equity in Sweden and increasing school segregation with respect to achievement and socioeconomic composition. Some schools are resilient to socioeconomic disadvantages in their student body and demonstrate high levels of achievement. However, little attention has been given…
Descriptors: Well Being, Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged, Resilience (Psychology)
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Carlsson, Õie Umb; Adolfsson, Päivi – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
This study focuses on the subjective experience of the living conditions of adults with intellectual disabilities as related to the Uppsala Quality of Life model (UQoL2). Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted to study issues raised by people with intellectual disabilities. Study participants had their own home, either in an ordinary…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Quality of Life, Daily Living Skills
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Thea Klapp; Alli Klapp; Jan-Eric Gustafsson – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The study aimed to investigate students' psychological, cognitive, and social well-being in 6th Grade and the relations to academic achievement in compulsory school, as measured by grades in 9th Grade. Due to reports from Swedish authorities and research, students' self-reported well-being has decreased during the last decade. Data from the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Grade 6, Grade 9, Academic Achievement
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Ninni Wahlström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
How could the technicality arising from eleven percent of students being excluded from a PISA test in Sweden trigger a polarized debate followed by investigations by both the OECD and national authorities? This question is explored in the study by drawing on discursive institutionalism, especially the concept of normative background ideas,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Hedegaard, Joel; Hugo, Martin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
The purpose of this article is to describe how education can serve as a changing and liberating process for adults with long-term mental illness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 participants in Life-knowledge and Creative courses at a Swedish Folk High School. Five themes emerged in the interviews: (i) A meaningful social context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Mental Disorders, Mental Health
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Paul Horton; Camilla Forsberg; Robert Thornberg – Educational Research, 2023
Background: Relational issues at school, including bullying, tend to be interpreted primarily in terms of the behaviour of individual students. Whilst research has broadened this focus, more needs to be understood about how the design and management of the school environment and its resources may influence peer relations. Purpose: The study sought…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Resources, Bullying, Educational Facilities Design
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Baltaci, Kübra; Sapsaglam, Özkan – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
Education life begins in the family and parents are the first teachers of the children. Parenting attitudes are influenced by various variables like the parents' cultural characteristics. In this study, a comparison was made on subjective well-being increasing strategies used by Turkish-Swedish mothers for their children. It was aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Parenting Styles, Mothers
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David Paulsrud – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
This article presents an analysis of Swedish subject teachers and special educators' discourses on the teaching of students with different needs in order to study their enactment of inclusive education in relation to competing demands. Drawing on notions of policy enactment, policies are here not only understood as regulatory texts, but also as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, General Education, Students with Disabilities
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Watts, Jodie L. – School Leadership & Management, 2023
This review provides a synthesis of research from the past decade on beginning principals and the professional supports they access to cope with role-related demands. The synthesis is based on empirical research studies conducted from the perspectives of beginning principals and contributes to the knowledge base on principal wellbeing and…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Coping, Well Being, Persistence
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Anna Larsson; Kristina Ledman – Journal of Social Science Education, 2025
Purpose: This study seeks to gain an understanding of the complexities involved in real-life classroom teaching. The aim is to trace values and tensions displayed in what the teachers regard as successful and unsuccessful. Design/methodology/approach: Teachers were interviewed to explore their perceptions of success and failures in their teaching…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis
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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
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Deborah Elin Siebecke – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
In recent years, Sweden has been struggling with issues of educational inequity as the influence of students' socioeconomic status on their academic achievements has amplified. Nonetheless, academically resilient students who demonstrate high achievement despite socioeconomic disadvantages offer hope for a more equitable future. Previous research…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Well Being, Teacher Student Relationship
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