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Direct linkMarthe Berg Andresen Reffhaug; Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Critical thinking as a concept, has a rich history and is central to much of the debate within international educational research and increasingly within environmental and sustainability education (ESE). Currently, it is gaining a foothold in the curriculum and in practice in Nordic countries. However, to date, there has been no proper account of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Foreign Countries
Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized by pre-defined cutoff values of students' achievement level and their social background. A threat to the validity of such arbitrary operationalizations is that students around the cutoff values may be misclassified. The main objective of the current study is to apply a…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Youth
Wermke, Wieland; Jarl, Maria; Prøitz, Tine Sophie; Nordholm, Daniel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
This article presents the development and application of a model that can be utilized to compare the autonomy of principals in various historical and national contexts. Drawing on former conceptual work on autonomy in education, the model conceptualizes principal autonomy as two-dimensional. The first dimension is the decision making expected from…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making
Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
Academic resilience is difficult to define in an international setting, since economic levels and achievement standards vary across countries and over time. In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized using pre-defined cut-offs of achievement and social background. The main objective of the current study is to apply…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Foreign Countries
Mustonen, Tero – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
The applicability of Indigenous ethics to the evaluation of ecological restoration is explored through two case examples involving the Indigenous Sámi rivers of Näätämö and Ponoi in the European North. Six key restoration approaches are described that would have been overlooked had it not been for the use of Indigenous ethics from the start of the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Ethics, Conservation (Environment), Earth Science
Rohatgi, Anubha; Hatlevik, Ove E.; Björnsson, Julius K. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Teacher-student interactions are crucial in understanding the role of a supportive climate in instructional practices. The present study investigates the perceptions of 15-year-old Nordic students regarding four aspects of their science class: teacher support, fairness, feedback, and class discipline. Multilevel modelling analysis is used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Science Achievement, International Assessment
Einarsdottir, Johanna; Juutinen, Jaana; Emilson, Anette; Ólafsdóttir, Sara M.; Zachrisen, Berit; Meuser, Sarah – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
The article addresses children's perspectives of belonging in early childhood education settings in five European countries. Children's belonging is understood to be dynamic processes that are formed through multiple relations. Twenty children aged 4-8 with diverse backgrounds participated in the study: two boys and two girls from each country.…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship, Early Childhood Education
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
Yalcin, Seher – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This study aims to identify the literacy skills of individuals whose highest level of education was in the field 'teacher training and educational sciences'. The study sample comprised 10,618 individuals in the field of teacher training and educational sciences, selected from 31 countries (participating in the International Adult Skills Assessment…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Educational Attainment, Adults
Download full textKuusisto, Arniika; Poulter, Saila; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2021
This paper examines how worldviews and national values are displayed in the national (Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curricula of Sweden, Finland and Norway. The specific interest is to investigate what similarities and differences there are between these three ECEC curricula with regard to the position of religions and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, National Curriculum, Values
Woolner, Pamela; Stadler-Altmann, Ulrike – Education Inquiry, 2021
Amid increasing global and national interest in the built educational environment, this editorial considers developments within the Nordic countries that are investigated and discussed within the articles in this special issue. We discuss commonalities and divergences in the experiences of transition and change in the schools, located in a range…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Buildings, Building Design, Educational Facilities Design
Maaranen, Katriina; Afdal, Hilde Wågsås – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In this study, we explore teachers' professional space as an alternative to, and/or expansion of earlier conceptualizations of teacher autonomy. Professional space is here understood both as an objective space with e.g., physical, juridical, economic features, and as the teachers' subjective negotiation of this objective space, where teachers are…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Urban, Mathias; Reikerås, Elin; Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus; Guevara, Jennifer; Saebø, Janken; Semmoloni, Carolina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a collaborative investigation into Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. The project explored values and principles that underpin and guide evaluation in ECEC systems and practices in five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
Gibbs, Norman Paul; Pivovarova, Margarita – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
In this study, we extend prior research in the role of school climate in civic education by exploring the relationship between immigrant students' experiences of bullying and their attitudes toward their countries of settlement. Using the 2016 IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study, we employ a multiple regression analysis with…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Environment, Correlation, Bullying
Sortkaer, Bent; Reimer, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
Classroom disciplinary climate has emerged as a crucial factor with regard to student achievement. However, most previous studies have not explored potential gender differences in both students' perceptions of the classroom disciplinary climate and the association between classroom disciplinary climate and student learning. Using data from the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discipline, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes
