NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Magdalena Hulth; Anne-Li Lindgren; Anna Westberg Broström – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021. Using Fairclough's framework, we identify three discourses about children's sexual play in relation to children's sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Sexuality, Personal Autonomy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lena O. Magnusson; Annika Elm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The study presented in this article shows some aspects of how children between the ages of three and five and their educators perceive and describe the educational environment in early childhood education in Sweden. The data is generated using "pedagogical walk-throughs" with the educators and "camera tours" together with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Preschools
Hettema, Lieuwe Jan, Comp.; Outakoski, Hanna, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise description of the European minority language, Sámi in Sweden, in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Helenius, Ola; Johansson, Maria L.; Lange, Troels; Meaney, Tamsin; Wernberg, Anna – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
The use of freely-available web-based materials in professional development has rarely been investigated in mathematics education research. In this article, the responses to a survey by 267 preschool teachers about their use of online professional development materials are described. The web materials were based on a design model and the survey…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Surveys
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lofdahl, Annica; Perez Prieto, Hector – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
This article contains results from a study based on locally produced planning and evaluation texts from 10 preschool settings in a Swedish middle-sized town. The texts were mainly from 1999 to 2005, a period during which Swedish preschools were implementing their first curriculum and were subject to several changes including decentralisation,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Resistance (Psychology), Social Control, Policy Analysis