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…

The aim of this article is to contribute knowledge about challenges to literacy development in a digitalised learning environment, with focus on "pupils in need of special support." The paper is based on a section of my doctoral thesis (Forsling, 2017), centring on how digital learning environments and situations were designed and…

To promote attainment and inclusion, Sweden offers tuition in migrant pupils' mother tongues as a regular school subject. However, the formulation of learning aims is problematic, and resources allocated to the subject do not correspond to ambitions expressed in steering documents. This case study presents an analysis of the organization of Mother…