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Marianne Sandvik Tveitnes; Mette Hvalby – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
There is global agreement that schools should be inclusive, however both experienced and inexperienced teachers find this challenging. In this study we explore how experienced teachers working as local mentors for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) address the challenges they face in an inclusive school. The study is designed as a qualitative study…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Beginning Teachers
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Alessandra Dieudé; Tine S. Prøitz – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
International trends promoting school diversity and choice have reshaped education across Europe, leading towards a multiplicity in ownership structures and varied governance configurations. More recently, this can also be seen in European countries with a long history of state-owned and governed public schools, such as in the Nordic states. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Policy, Instructional Development, Professional Autonomy
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Smith, Kari – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
The role of research in teacher education is a widely discussed topic by policymakers as well as by researchers and practitioners. At the policy level, there seems to be a general claim that teacher education shall be research based (OECD, 2005; European Commission, 2013; Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, 2021; Norwegian Ministry of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Theory Practice Relationship
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Borgen, Jorunn Spord; Hallås, Bjørg Oddrun; Løndal, Knut; Moen, Kjersti Mordal; Gjølme, Egil Galaaen – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This article explores the relationship between physical education as a school subject, and physical activity health initiatives in schools. Drawing on curriculum theory and discourse theory we study policy documents related to physical education and school-based physical activity initiatives. We explore the boundaries of knowledge between physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Programs, Physical Activities, Educational Policy
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Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick – Language Policy, 2023
In the Nordic countries, policy debates about English often highlight the threat of domain loss for national languages, but the high status of English may also have a differential impact on people in Nordic societies. This article investigates a policy gap in Norwegian upper secondary education, whereby an advanced English subject requirement may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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Merket, Monika – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper investigates the educational field by focusing on an integrated teacher education program [ITE] in Norway and OECD policy. The author centers attention on Norwegian teacher education and how globalization through such international agents as the OECD has had impact on national policy documents. Basil Bernstein's concept of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Dyred Pedersen, Tea – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Forming part of the efforts to internationalise European higher education, international student mobility has become a key activity strongly supported and promoted by policymakers. In particular, the mobility of teacher students has become a more prominent issue over the past decades. However, to this date there is a lack of research focussing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Mobility, Teacher Education
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Valle, Roald; Lillejord, Sølvi – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
Analyses of policy documents and interviews with three Norwegian politicians revealed differences in how school leaders were described, positioned and ascribed responsibility in Norwegian education policy between 1990 and 2017. While how politicians positioned school leaders changed substantially during the period, a stable trait was vague…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Leadership, Schools
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Gunnulfsen, Ann Elisabeth, Ed.; Ärlestig, Helene, Ed.; Storgaard, Merete, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This book discusses principals' prerequisites and work within the five Nordic countries and focuses on schools as formal institutions that carry out functions delegated to them by the social collective. It includes a discussion about what kind of state policy demonstrates autonomy in Nordic schools, as well as the ways in which school leaders as…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Leadership, Principals, State Policy
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Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen; Jeffrey Brooks Hall – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This paper investigates how Norwegian school principals prepared to carry out the LK20 reform process. The importance of school principals and middle-level leaders as enactors of change efforts results from their close ties to teachers and teacher classroom practices. This suggests that without negotiation and support from micro-policy actors,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Strategic Planning, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Barbara Wasson; Michail Giannakos; Marte Blikstad-Balas; Per Henning Uppstad; Malcolm Langford; Einar D. Bøhn – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
In June 2022, the Norwegian Expert Commission on Learning Analytics delivered an interim report to the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research. Motivated by the need to establish a solid foundation upon which to regulate and promote the use of learning analytics in the Norwegian educational sector, the Ministry asked the Expert Commission to…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Silje Kristin Gloppen; Judit Novak – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The reported study investigates the emergence of teacher evaluation (TE) in Norwegian green papers between 1988 and 2019. We examine how knowledge dissemination and discourses in Norwegian official reports shape suggestions for TE and discuss implications for how teachers are "made by policy". Guided by Bacchi's (2009) approach to…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis
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Aslanian, Teresa K. – Gender and Education, 2022
The word 'care' has been removed from Norway's most recent framework for early childhood teacher education. According to ECEC practice policy, care is foundational in ECEC and teachers are expected to care, yet caring is not mentioned in the Framework's description of ECEC, nor is it included as a knowledge or skill goal. Why does care occupy a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Caring
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Selderslagh, Guy – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
In the long history of the Catholic school in Europe, it has taken various forms, linked to local cultures and to the history, particularly religious but also political, of each state. While it is possible to account for this diversity, it is also important to highlight common features and challenges, such as secularisation and globalisation,…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Gloppen, Silje Kristin – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
This article reports from a case study investigating enactment of teacher evaluation (TE) policies in two lower secondary schools in a large Norwegian municipality. The aim of the study was to explore teachers' perceptions of TE, and to unpack how new policy initiatives were shaped by translations, mediations, and negotiations in a national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy
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