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Catarina Wahlgren; Kristina Andersson – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Photographs constitute an important visual language in contemporary Swedish preschool, as they are legible to young children themselves. This article aims to examine which notions of the child are represented in preschool photographs, and how these notions correlate to notions of the child expressed in the Swedish preschool curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Susanne Severinsson – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
To explore issues of safety and security at school the research reported here investigated the way a sense of security was created in school, how security was linked to different locations and situations, and the influences that acted on pupils' sense of security. Pupils in year 1 in Sweden took photographs associated with insecurity and security,…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Grade 1, Photography
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Beatrice Sciacca; Angela Mazzone; Magnus Loftsson; James O'Higgins Norman; Mairéad Foody – Youth & Society, 2024
This study investigated the prevalence of receiving sexts among adolescents and its relationship with depressive symptoms and self-esteem. A survey was administered to 728 high school students in Sweden in 2019 and 2020 (50.4% girls and 46.4% boys) using a cross-sectional design. Findings showed that significantly more boys (28.4%) than girls…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Sexuality
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Catarina Wahlgren; Katerina Pia Günter – Gender and Education, 2024
Photographs of children are used on a daily basis in Swedish preschool practice. Although the preschool curriculum prescribes gender equality and celebration of diversity, photographs of indoor activities have shown to display a homogenous view of children and an emphasis on masculine-coded productions and accomplishments. This article examines…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Environment
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Straszer, Boglárka; Rosén, Jenny; Wedin, Åsa – Education Inquiry, 2022
The aim of this article is to generate knowledge about an MTT classroom in a Swedish elementary school and how MTT is positioned as a safe space for translanguaging. By studying a school context as a potential translanguaging space, our focus is mainly on two dimensions of space: the physical, including the material space of MTT, and the social,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Elementary School Students, Swedish, Code Switching (Language)
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Wedin, Åsa; Rosén, Jenny; Straszer, Boglárka – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
This article is aimed to demonstrate how language policy at the local school level may create space for translanguaging. Focus is on a Mother Tongue (MT) classroom for Somali in a primary school in Sweden by way of an analysis of layers of language policy, with focus on spatial aspects. The empirical material consists of policy documents,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Photography, African Languages, Native Language