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Academized or Deprofessionalized?--Policy Discourses of Teacher Professionalism in Relation to Research-Based Education
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Larsson, Christer; Sjöberg, Lena – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
A key concern in international educational policy during the 21st century has been the impact of teacher professionalism on outcomes of schooling. Sweden makes for an interesting case because of the country's initiatives to improve the quality of education through an academization of the teachers. The aim of this study is to analyse how Swedish…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teachers, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Who Owns the Knowledge? Knowledge Construction as Part of the School Improvement Process
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Glaés-Coutts, Lena; Nilsson, Henrik – Improving Schools, 2021
When Sweden began to experience a steady decline in student achievement results in PISA and TIMMS, the Swedish National Agency of Education initiated a model of collaboration with Swedish universities aimed at providing support to schools with falling student achievement scores. In this article, we examine how such projects can work at the local…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Teachers