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Rönnlund, Maria; Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Educational Research, 2019
Background: This article presents an analysis of how critical thinking is contextualised in everyday teaching in three vocational education and training (VET) programmes: Vehicle and transport, Restaurant and management, and Health and social care. Purpose: The main question addressed is: What knowledge discourses permeate different VET-contexts,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Vocational Education, Citizenship Education, Context Effect
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Rosvall, Per-Åke; Nilsson, Stefan – Pastoral Care in Education, 2016
This article reports on the views of school nurses (n = 25) and students with recurrent pain (n = 24) in Sweden with regard to school-based pedagogic practices. A number of common categories with implications for pedagogic practice were identified by analysing qualitative interviews with these groups, using the coding techniques of grounded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pain, School Nurses, Student Attitudes
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Rosvall, Per-Åke; Hjelmér, Carina; Lappalainen, Sirpa – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Vocational education has a historical legacy of being low-status and aimed at producing skilled workers. Students with low marks in comprehensive school are still often guided to the vocational educational track. In this article we examine how mathematics teaching in a vocational educational context is framed (henceforth VET). Therefore, our aim…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers