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Liljenberg, Mette – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper explores school leaders' and teachers' ideas about drivers of improvement at local level in the decentralised Swedish school system. An institutional perspective is applied to investigate how institutional logics at macro level are played out at micro level in improvement processes. The paper draws on a three-year collaborative research…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries
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Elizabeth M. Olsson; Linnéa Gelot; Johan Karlsson Schaffer; Andréas Litsegård – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Academic Literacies elucidates how undergraduate students with diverse skillsets can effectively engage with socially constructed and discipline-specific knowledge(s) "through" writing. Over the last two decades, language specialists and education researchers have developed a robust, student-focused epistemology. However, it remains…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy Education, International Relations, Team Teaching
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Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke; Eiríksdóttir, Elsa; Holm, Ann-Sofie; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Niemi, Anna-Maija; Ragnarsdóttir, Guðrún – Education Inquiry, 2018
In this study we examine how the academic-vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academically-oriented programmes at the upper-secondary school level. The paper is based on a critical re-analysis of results from previous studies; in it we investigate the implications of…
Descriptors: Social Class, Gender Differences, Vocational Education, Academic Education
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Liebel, Grischa; Burden, Håkan; Heldal, Rogardt – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Team teaching is advocated in education to offer students multiple explanations to complex concepts and to improve teacher development. However, team teaching is typically associated with high staff cost due to the increased amount of teachers involved. The authors argue that team teaching can be conducted in a cheap way by including novice…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Undergraduate Students, Computer Software, Computer Science Education
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Henning Loeb, Ingrid – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article investigates the cooperation of a teaching team in Swedish upper secondary education over a period of five years. The data collection builds on field studies and partly on a collaborative research approach. Three areas of cooperation have been identified: collaboration among the staff; interactions between the staff and the students;…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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Wilkinson, Jane; Olin, Anette; Lund, Torbjorn; Ahlberg, Ann; Nyvaller, Monica – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2010
In this article we investigate educational leadership as a site of practice, utilising the notion of "practice architectures" as our lens. The latter shifts Etienne Wenger's more individualising notion of 'learning architectures' to a broader study of the systems and organisations that prefigure educational practices and potentially,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Instructional Leadership, Principals