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Vedeler, Gørill Warvik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article explores how current legislation addresses adolescents' need for support in upper secondary school through school-home collaboration and introduces the framework of collaborative autonomy-support as the pivotal approach for analyses. Self-determination theory is used to describe adolescents' need for competence, relatedness and…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Self Determination, Personal Autonomy, Learning Motivation
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Guberman, Ainat; Ulvik, Marit; MacPhail, Ann; Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This study describes higher education-based teacher educators' professional trajectories, i.e. their professional activities and learning as developed throughout their career. Semi-structured interviews were held with 41 teacher educators from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands. Findings show that teacher educators were recruited mainly…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Teacher Education Programs, Career Development
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Wollscheid, Sabine; Stensaker, Bjørn; Bugge, Markus M. – European Education, 2019
Evidence-informed policy and practice has been a trend as part of an effort to increase the use of research to improve education at all levels. In many countries, knowledge-brokering initiatives were established to stimulate links between research, policy, and practice. Drawing on a mapping of initiatives in seven countries, this article describes…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research
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Thingnes, Jorunn Simonsen – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
How are processes of language policy formation carried out? Besides, how does one negotiate competing discourses in a policy process to ensure its legitimacy? Such questions sparked the interest for this study, which examines legitimization processes involved in the development of language policy guidelines at a higher education institution in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Norwegian, English (Second Language)
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Dang, Que Anh – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This paper contributes to the theoretical debate over a global upsurge in higher education (HE) regionalisms which pursue different region-building processes and create policy spaces beyond national boundaries. Focusing on the Nordic countries, the paper studies parallel processes of intra-Nordic and European HE and research cooperation. Although…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Aursand, Leah; Rutkowski, David – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
In recent years, exclusion rates in PISA have risen in many countries, including a sharper-than-average rise in Norway. This article focuses on Norway's experience with exclusion rates in PISA, including an analysis tracking this increase between 2000 and 2018. Through interviews with key stakeholders, this article explores several ideas that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Elkorghli, Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Norway has been going through numerous changes in its education system. In the last 10 years, Norway has retrained its teachers to obtain master's degrees, redrawn its curricula objectives, and instated national exams for certain subjects. These changes are occurring at a time of intensified globalisation and increased displacement of people. With…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Korsvold, Tora; Nygård, Mette – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
The main purpose of this article is to explore and develop a basic understanding of a new formulation of children's learning within ECEC policies in Norway. In the Nordic Countries, one question of importance is the shift in ECEC policy from a social-pedagogical approach and a holistic perspective on children's learning towards a heavier emphasis…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Political Attitudes, Government Publications
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Taylor, Neil; Quinn, Frances; Jenkins, Kathy; Miller-Brown, Helen; Rizk, Nadya; Prodromou, Theodosia; Serow, Penelope; Taylor, Subhashni – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2019
This article reviews Education for Sustainability (EfS) in the secondary sector across a range of countries. Drawing on journal articles, book chapters and official reports, it identifies some of the more successful approaches to implementing EfS within the secondary sector. The authors first discuss the importance of educating for sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Secondary Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Key competences are important for personal development, employment, integration into society and lifelong learning. They are transversal and form the basis for all other competences. Acquiring key competences is possible through various learning pathways, including vocational education and training (VET). However, little is known at the European…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Technological Literacy, Multilingualism
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Afdal, Hilde W. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This article questions what kind of actors become involved and analyzes what forms of knowledge are activated, when discourses such as "research-based" and "profession-oriented" become basic preconditions in national curriculum change processes in Norway. A "mapping" is conducted, comprised of actors and ideas, played…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Integrated Curriculum, Teacher Education
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Karlsen, Sidsel; Nielsen, Siw Graabraek – Arts Education Policy Review, 2021
The aim of this article is to analyze discourse from historically pertinent policy and strategic documents of the Norwegian Schools of Music and Performing Arts, in order to explore the nature of the intractable discrepancy between curriculum, policy, and practice. Popular music has long been part of Norwegian compulsory-school and higher music…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Faculty Development, Professionalism
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Sweetman, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
Proliferating claims have been made for Learning Outcomes (LOs) potential to re-shape higher education: as forces for transparency and harmonisation, new forms for measurement or a format that fundamentally challenges traditional teaching and learning. Evidence of their actual influence remains sparse, however. This analysis of 45 interviews with…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teaching Experience, Student Experience, Educational Policy
OECD Publishing, 2019
Across OECD countries, individuals without tertiary-educated parents tend to be considerably under-represented among entrants to tertiary education. However, inequalities tend to accumulate throughout an individual's educational career. In particular, the period from starting upper secondary to entering tertiary education is critical in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Indicators
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Jonas Yassin Iversen; Juliet Munden; Margaret Nambao – Language and Education, 2024
Limited access to reading material written in local languages is considered a contributing factor to poor reading achievement in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several non-government projects are attempting to compensate for this by providing extensive reading material. One such project is the non-commercial, donor-initiated African Storybook. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Story Reading
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