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Tronsmo, Eli – Curriculum Journal, 2020
In a time of strong focus on school development, teachers' work is increasingly linked to a variety of actors, organisations and stakeholders with different agendas and suggestions for school improvements. This paper explores the different actor constellations that teachers engage with in collaborative knowledge work and the opportunities and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers
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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
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Eli Lejonberg; Katrine Nesje; Eyvind Elstad; Knut-Andreas Abben Christophersen – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2024
Purpose: The study explored how PSTs perceived a learning design, using a decision simulator, a self-reflection guide and a peer mentoring guide as tools to mediate reflections on approaches to the teacher's role. The individual characteristics of PSTs were also considered, including role clarity, self-efficacy and affective commitment, as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Decision Making
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Sigstad, Hanne Marie Høybråten; Garrels, Veerle – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
People with intellectual disability are only marginally represented in the labour market, and research has identified several school-related barriers to their labour market participation. This study uses a qualitative method triangulation with eight teacher interviews and nine individualised educational plans (IEPs) to explore how teachers prepare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Intellectual Disability, Teacher Role, Job Skills
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Lorentzen, Marte – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This article studies differences in teachers' and teacher specialists' perspectives of a newly introduced teacher specialist role in Norway. It is known that the emergence of specialised teachers challenges the egalitarian norms of the profession. However, there is a lack of insight into teachers' perspectives of these roles and the nuances of…
Descriptors: Specialists, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Role Perception
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Sandvik, Lise Vikan; Svendsen, Bodil; Strømme, Alex; Smith, Kari; Aasmundstad Sommervold, Oda; Aarønes Angvik, Stine – Educational Assessment, 2023
The lockdowns that began during the spring of 2020 changed the conditions for teaching and assessment across the globe. In Norway, schools were closed, and all school activities took place online. Moreover, all final exams were canceled, and all student grading was based on final grading by the individual teacher. Because of this, teachers'…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
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Maelan, Ellen Nesset; Tjomsland, Hege Eikeland; Baklien, Børge; Thurston, Miranda – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
A qualitative study conducted in four lower secondary schools in Norway explored teachers' and school principals' experiences of collaboration with a variety of extended services (ES). Particular attention was directed to the ways (if any) they perceived collaboration to be relevant to helping teachers support pupils with mental health problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Principals
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Poulaki Mandt, Hege Marie – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
We know that teachers' identities and their ideological assumptions of teaching and learning mathematics are critical in influencing their teaching and thinking about classroom practices. To better understand prospective mathematics teachers' identity during teacher education, this study investigates how two participants negotiate their identity…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Educational Philosophy, Professional Identity, Teacher Education Programs
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Maelan, Ellen Nesset; Tjomsland, Hege Eikeland; Baklien, Børge; Samdal, Oddrun; Thurston, Miranda – Pastoral Care in Education, 2018
This study aimed to explore teachers' and head teachers' understandings of how they work to support pupils' mental health through their everyday practices. A qualitative study, including individual interviews with head teachers and focus groups with teachers, was conducted in lower secondary schools in Norway. Rich descriptions of teachers' and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Teachers, Principals
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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
Elizabeth Oltedal – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The topic for my PhD project is assessment of music performance by social moderation in upper secondary school. My aim with the study is to develop knowledge of how teachers perceive and meet the challenges of performance assessment, with specific focus on the intersubjective teacher team. Research in the field of music performance assessment has…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Music, Music Activities, Teacher Role
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Burner, Tony; Madsen, Janne; Zako, Nadia; Ismail, Adham – Educational Action Research, 2017
In Iraqi Kurdistan, the educational system is going through significant changes. The educational system influences the students' attitudes, and one wants the educational system to support the young democracy. In this study, student-centred learning (SCL) is seen as a first step to learning, but also to participation and engagement as a citizen.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Student Centered Learning, Secondary School Students
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Ulvik, Marit; Smith, Kari; Helleve, Ingrid – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Education is described as a moral enterprise and many of the professional dilemmas teachers encounter have an ethical aspect. Research on ethical situations that novice teachers experience, however, seems to be limited, and we know little about how teacher education can prepare student-teachers for dealing with ethical issues. In this article a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Ethics
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Hilt, Line Torbjørnsen – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This article will show how the global educational policy expectations of being a "self-managing learner" unfold in the context of two school organisations in Norway, and contribute to the exclusion of so-called newly arrived minority language students. The theoretical framework is Niklas Luhmann's theory of the global educational system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Policy, Language Minorities
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Ertesvåg, Sigrun K.; Roland, Erling – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
Preventing and reducing bullying requires long-term and systematic school-wide actions. Researchers on bullying have given little attention to the school organization and its influence on the ability to implement the necessary actions to prevent and stop bullying. This study examines the relationship between aspects of a school's professional…
Descriptors: Bullying, Correlation, Organizational Culture, Prevention
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