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Karolina Muhrman; Per Andersson – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This article explores how the Swedish policy of municipal adult education (MAE) is interpreted, translated, and enacted in study and career counselling. The data consists of semi-structured interviews with adult education leaders and study and career counsellors. Swedish MAE is characterised by extensive marketisation, with many different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Counselors, Career Counseling
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Samuelsson, Johan – Education 3-13, 2023
Historically, the Swedish school system has been designed to level out differences between pupils. There has also been scepticism about assessing pupils. However, new school reforms in Sweden centre on performance and tests. This article focuses on pupils (year 6) in Swedish elite schools and their perceptions of assessment. The pupils are in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools, High Achievement, Social Class
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Muhrman, Karolina; Andersson, Per – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
The aim of this study is to describe and analyse how municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden is enacted at the intersection of course organisation, student selection and course content. For this analysis, the data consist of a nationwide survey sent to Swedish municipalities, interviews with school leaders from 20 municipalities and in-depth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Commercialization, Foreign Countries, Municipalities
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Lundberg, Janna – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper offers insights into the dynamic of misrecognition in an elite school. It presents new findings on micro-interactional power relations in the classroom and argues for additional ethnographies of social science education in elite schools. Methodology: This paper uses an ethnographic method. Its research employs the observational…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Sciences, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Advantaged
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Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Radišic, Jeléna; Ding, Yi; Liu, Xin – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: The current study investigates school contextual effects on students' academic self-concept and achievement, that is, peer socioeconomic effect and big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), in four Nordic education systems (i.e., Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and selected Chinese education systems (Hong Kong and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Self Concept