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Direct linkWieland Wermke; Daniel Nordholm; Annika I. Anderson; Riitta Kotavuopio-Olsson – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
Principal autonomy has been identified as an important ingredient in effective and healthy schools. However, little is known about the various dimensions of the phenomenon and how it takes form in different contexts. This article presents an analytical device contributing to further understand the complex nature of principal autonomy. The device…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Cross Cultural Studies
Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Björn Boman; Marcus Mosesson – Discover Education, 2023
Relating to world culture theory, this article aimed to discern similarities and differences between the South Korean national curriculum (1981, 2015) and the Swedish national curriculum (1980, 2018) and a set of complementary documents, both more broadly and with special emphasis on middle school level mathematics education. The findings suggest…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Middle School Mathematics
Daniel Nordholm; Wieland Wermke; Annika Andersson; Riitta Kotavuopio Olsson – Education Inquiry, 2024
This article focuses on Nordic school leaders and how rural principals experience autonomy and control in current governance regimes using a sample of principals in the very north of Norway and Sweden as a case. An analysis instrument constituting four different schooling domains (educational; social; developmental; administrative) and the ways in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Professional Autonomy, Rural Schools
Xavier Rambla; Nafsika Alexiadou – European Journal of Education, 2024
In this article we examine the European Semester as an innovative form of policy coordination, with distinct effects on education and skills policies for Member States. We analyse the Semester's framing of education policy, and examine its manifestations in Spain and Sweden, two countries considered to be different in their approach to education.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Blasius, Jörg; Thiessen, Victor – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Identifying illicit behavior in survey research is inherently problematic, since self-reports are untrustworthy. We argue that fraudulent interviewers can, however, be identified through statistical deviance of the distributional parameters of their interviews. We document that a high proportion of the variation in the data is due to the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Interviews, Deception, Cheating
Arriaza Hult, Maria – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article interprets how five left-leaning parties in Sweden and Spain intend to politically socialise their members through the use of educational activities. By applying a framing perspective on interviews with leading party representatives from the five parties, the analysis theoretically illuminates how educational activities can be a tool…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Political Attitudes, Socialization, Learning Activities
Tommy Shih; Andrew Chubb; Diarmuid Cooney-O'Donoghue – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Significant collaborations with research partners in China are seen in many Western countries. With increasing US-China geopolitical tensions, governments, research institutions, and individuals in established scientific systems are increasingly required to address a proliferating array of risks and challenges associated with collaboration with…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
King, Elizabeth J.; Rozek, Laura; Lin, Ann Chih; Hicken, Allen; Jones, Pauline; Aleksandrova, Ekaterina; Meylakhs, Peter; Nambunmee, Kowit; Tardif, Twila – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Control of the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant changes in people's health behaviors. We offer this multidisciplinary perspective on the extent of compliance with social distancing recommendations and on coping with these measures around the globe in the first months of the pandemic. We present descriptive data from our survey of 17,650…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping
Margaretha Häggström – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Practical experience and first-hand insight into the school systems of other countries enables student teachers to cultivate global understanding. Teacher education programme in Sweden has four placements. Student teachers are encouraged to complete one of these abroad. The aim with this study is to examine student teachers' experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Student Teachers, Teacher Education
Jiang, Ronghuan; Star, Jon R.; Hästö, Peter; Li, Lijia; Liu, Ru-de; Tuomela, Dimitri; Prieto, Nuria Joglar; Palkki, Riikka; Abánades, Miguel Á.; Pejlare, Johanna – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This cross-national study examined students' evaluation of strategies for solving linear equations, as well as the extent to which their evaluation criteria were related to their use of strategies and/or aligned with experts' views about which strategy is the best. A total of 792 middle school and high school students from Sweden, Finland, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Middle School Students, High School Students
Eric D. Leise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the influence institutional cultures and structures have on a university's internationalization strategy. It also accounted for the roles external forces, such as government policies and geopolitics, play in shaping internationalization strategies. The comparative case study between the United States, England, and Sweden were…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, School Culture, Strategic Planning
Ulla Lundqvist; Ilona Rinne; Ali Yildirim – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Denmark and Sweden have witnessed a historically significant amplification of parental influence in compulsory schools during the past two decades. The emphasis on parental involvement in these two countries reflects international trends of neoliberal governing of educational processes. We know very little about the interplay between beginning…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
Martin Howard; Leigh Oakes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study responds to calls for more research on motivations for learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in the new era dominated by global English. In particular, it focuses on the role of societal contextual factors surrounding the status of English and the status of the LOTE as an L2/L3, as factors which may offer a more nuanced…
Descriptors: French, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Joseph Siegel – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Listening to academic lectures in a second language (L2) can be a daunting task, as the listener faces various challenges related to processing the speech stream, prioritizing the importance of information, and deciding when, where and how to take notes. A host of factors can contribute to student comfort in and ability to take "good"…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Notetaking, English for Academic Purposes, Language of Instruction
