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Frelin, Anneli; Grannäs, Jan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Teaching in new kinds of learning environments could prove challenging, and a successful transition is facilitated by user involvement. This article reports results from the planning and rebuilding phase of a multi-zone flexible learning environment. On two occasions, one virtual and one on-site walk-through, two groups of secondary school…
Descriptors: Affordances, Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Grannäs, Jan; Frelin, Anneli – Improving Schools, 2017
This article sets out to explore how and whether the physical, social and conceived conditions in schools facilitate or disrupt support work aimed at improving student learning and preventing social exclusion. This is accomplished by comparing student support practices in the common areas of two newly renovated secondary schools built in two…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Well Being, Interviews, Observation
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Frelin, Anneli – School Psychology International, 2015
Relational features of the educational environment, such as positive teacher-student relationships, are important for students' academic success. This case study explores the relational practices of a teacher who negotiates educational relationships with students who have a history of school failure. "Gunilla", a secondary school teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
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Frelin, Anneli; Grannäs, Jan – Improving Schools, 2014
This article introduces a theoretical framework for studying school improvement processes such as making school environments safer. Using concepts from spatial theory, in which distinctions between mental, social and physical space are applied makes for a multidimensional analysis of processes of change. In a multilevel case study, these were…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Safety, School Space, Personal Space
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Frelin, Anneli; Grannas, Jan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
This paper argues against a view of curriculum as a means for moulding students into, and making teachers accountable for, something pre-determined and singularly governed by qualification demands of the labour market. It makes a case for the value of inter-subjective teacher-student relationships in education and addresses the significance of…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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Frelin, Anneli; Grannäs, Jan – Improving Schools, 2015
This article presents results from a research project exploring the relational interplay between school staff and students, its functions and complexity in the secondary school context. School relationships (between students and different kinds of staff) are more or less indirectly related to educational content: subject matter as well as norms…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Classification, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students