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Direct linkHaukås, Åsta; Mercer, Sarah; Svalberg, Agneta M.-L. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Teaching a language subject in school is often referred to as being different and unique compared to teaching a non-language subject. However, the few existing studies examining this claim have mainly investigated the viewpoints of teachers who only teach one language, thus failing to achieve a comparison based on teachers' actual lived…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers
Strømme, Thea Bertnes – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
By studying population-wide panels of 10th graders in Norway, I investigate the association between the social class composition of cohorts in schools and choosing an academic as opposed to a vocational track at upper-secondary level. Two steps are used to study this relationship. First, I use multilevel models estimating the group level model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Social Class, Academic Education
Hiim, Hilde – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
The status and quality of vocational education and training (VET) represent a challenge in many countries, including Norway. In recent decades the political goal in Norway has been to ensure that vocational programmes at upper secondary level achieve equal status with academic programmes. Considerable efforts have been made to strengthen the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Vocational Education, Social Status, Foreign Countries
Sigstad, Hanne Marie Høybråten – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: Students with intellectual disabilities may lack sufficiently developed skills to initiate qualitatively good social interactions; thus, they might be in need of assistance. This study examined special education teachers' role in facilitating peer relationships among students with mild intellectual disabilities in a mainstream school…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Special Education Teachers, Peer Relationship, Mild Intellectual Disability
Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general academic courses. We study the effects of a nationwide high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, High School Students, Job Skills
Borgen, Solveig T.; Borgen, Nicolai T. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
High dropout rates from upper secondary school are related to substantial societal costs, and are hence a major policy concern. The Norwegian folk high schools provide a non-academic education in an intimate and nurturing environment where interpersonal and social skills are emphasised, and where individuals grow in sense of self-esteem and sense…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Folk Schools, Dropouts, Educational Policy
