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Hilt, Line; Riese, Hanne – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Some might fear that the local flavours of education will evaporate when encountering the hegemony of global, cognitive standards of the knowledge economy. This paper, however, shows that the evolution of curriculum can emerge in surprising directions, creating hybrid forms of education. We will investigate forms of meaning that emerge in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History
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Prøitz, Tine Sophie; Novak, Judit; Mausethagen, Sølvi – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
The use of data for governance purposes has been widely recognised as a way for national authorities to coordinate their activities across administrative levels and improve educational quality. This places the mid-central authority--in many countries the municipal level--in the midst of modern education governing. This article reports a case study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Use, Educational Policy, Student Evaluation
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Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Studies have shown how school professionals deal with large quantities of student test data and accountability policies in different ways. However, the subtle ways in which school leaders and teachers use their time, their power and their talk when dealing with external policy demands in daily practice is understudied. Using data from interviews…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Kjersti Løken Ødegaard; Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
Internationally, the emphasis on school reforms is increasing, and school leaders play a key role in realising reform initiatives for school development and change. Often, the formation of partnerships between researchers and practitioners for school improvement is promoted to facilitate professional development and enhance student learning.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, College School Cooperation
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David Lansing Cameron; Camilla Herlofsen; Charlotte Riis Jensen; Gunilla Lindqvist; Mette Molbaek; Kristina Ström; Christel Sundqvist – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of special education professionals in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in light of educational policies and reforms. The study places emphasis on (a) the policy context of inclusion and special needs education, (b) the formal qualifications required of special education professionals, and (c)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Luimes, Maike – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article investigates policymaking for Norwegian lower secondary education, with a focus on policy problems and solutions emphasising pre-vocational education. The data consist of official policy documents such as Green and White Papers, hearings, propositions to the parliament, protocols of parliamentary debates and votes in the parliament.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Prevocational Education, Educational Change
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Silseth, Kenneth; Hontvedt, Magnus; Mäkitalo, Åsa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to examine the complex relationships between educational policy and classroom practice. By employing a sociocultural perspective, we examine formulations inscribed in socio-material artifacts about what students should learn and how they should engage with knowledge. We explore how these formulations are mobilized in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Accountability, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Techniques
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Lackner, Elisabeth Josefine – Higher Education Policy, 2022
This study describes a key feature of modern, democratic policy making, namely the relation between stakeholder input and policy output. In the Nordic countries, there are long traditions for and democratic values attached to the dialogue between the government and civil society when developing policies for the educational sector. The case…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Democratic Values
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Tommaso Rompianesi; Line T. Hilt – Intercultural Education, 2024
This paper will investigate how specific "narratives on the inclusion of minority language students" (MLSs) are constructed in Norwegian and Italian educational policy documents. We will employ the Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) analytical categories with an interpretative narrative approach to reconstruct the two national policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Inclusion
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Thune, Taran; Reymert, Ingvild; Gulbrandsen, Magnus; Simensen, Erlend – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
In this paper, we seek to provide a fresh perspective on knowledge exchange by addressing both academics' and policymakers' experiences with such exchange. Through two large Norwegian surveys of academics and policymakers, we look at the characteristics of the academics that are engaged in various forms of knowledge exchange with policymakers --…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Policy, Knowledge Management
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Fahy, Edel; Kenny, Ailbhe – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
In recent years, arts partnerships have gained increased popularity as a means of delivering arts education and art-in-education in schools. Creating opportunities for both teachers and artists alike, arts partnerships can enhance a shared sense of purpose and mutual respect, while also developing creative skills, knowledge and expertise. Although…
Descriptors: Art Education, Partnerships in Education, Faculty Development, Educational Policy
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Fedotov, Dmitriy – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
The current study aims at providing empirical and theoretical support to the important topic of international student mobility (ISM) in Europe. Specifically, it provides empirical analysis of degree-mobile students in 32 countries: the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the United Kingdom. The study is based on the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Kristin Haugen; Randi Beate Tosterud; Sigrid Wangensteen; Marit Honerød Hoveid – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This article addresses study programme leadership, a still-emerging phenomenon in European higher education (HE). Given its novelty, descriptions and insights into study programme leadership remain sparse. Therefore, this study aims to describe and critically explore health profession study programme leaders' work tasks and responsibilities as…
Descriptors: Leaders, Foreign Countries, Allied Health Occupations Education, Leadership Role
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Ruth Jensen; Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
This study investigates policy work in educational leadership courses at universities. It analyses the types of engagement present in university teachers' policy work and in their interpretations and translations of policy intentions into teaching designs and practices. The study illustrates policy work as a phenomenon and draws on the theory of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership, Courses, College Faculty
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Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2023
The history of education is, and can be, many things. In this article, I argue that the history of education in the Nordic countries is marked by three phases, based on its institutional setting. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of education was written by schoolmen for schoolmen. In the post-war era, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Educational Sociology
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