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Gelinder, Lolita; Hjälmeskog, Karin; Lidar, Malena – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Home and Consumer Studies (HCS) is a subject in the Swedish compulsory school that has sustainability issues clearly enrolled in its syllabus. Among other things, students should learn to make sustainable food choices, i.e. they should understand the consequences concerning health, finance and environment of what food they choose to consume. The…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Food, Epistemology, Decision Making
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Lundqvist, Eva; Lidar, Malena – Education Inquiry, 2021
Major policy changes make teachers reconsider how they teach. In Sweden, a new curriculum, a grading system, and national tests were introduced in science education in Year 6 (Y6) for the 2012/2013 academic year. After two years, the national tests were made voluntary, and they ended the following year. In this interview study, we investigate what…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
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Lidar, Malena; Karlberg, Martin; Almqvist, Jonas; Östman, Leif; Lundqvist, Eva – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Our main interest in this article is to explore whether Swedish teachers changed their teaching and assessment practices in relation to the new national tests in science education that were introduced 2009. Data was collected using a web-distributed questionnaire, which was answered by 407 teachers. The concept of teaching traditions is used to…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Political Issues, Moral Values, Teaching Methods