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Maria Gustavsson; Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
This article investigates stakeholders' learning and transformative action when developing a collaboration platform between a Swedish regional authority organisation (RAO) and civil society organisations (CSOs) to find new ways to provide welfare services. The material is based on 22 semi-structured interviews and observations of seven general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Public Sector, Community Relations
Wieland Wermke; Daniel Nordholm; Annika I. Anderson; Riitta Kotavuopio-Olsson – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
Principal autonomy has been identified as an important ingredient in effective and healthy schools. However, little is known about the various dimensions of the phenomenon and how it takes form in different contexts. This article presents an analytical device contributing to further understand the complex nature of principal autonomy. The device…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Cross Cultural Studies
Wise, Emily; Eklund, Moa; Smith, Madeline; Wilson, James – Research Evaluation, 2022
For decades, cluster initiatives and funding programmes have been used as instruments of industrial and innovation policy--addressing system failures by strengthening linkages among actors, fostering innovation, and developing more effective innovation systems. More recently, a growing segment of these initiatives are also focused on driving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Cluster Grouping, Stakeholders
Fremstad, Ester; Ewins, Kristin – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
In universities worldwide, there is an increased reliance on academic developers to contribute to enhancing higher education. As critical-constructive agents within their universities, academic developers have the potential to contribute to changes on the institutional level as well as on the level of educational practices. While such a role has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Educational Development, Institutional Mission
Suzanne Dillon; Becky Clark – OECD Publishing, 2023
The horrendous impact of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold. One of the consequences has been the systematic destruction of Ukraine's education system. This OECD publication aims to support Ukrainian policymakers in the twin challenge of ensuring high-quality education can continue and to aid the remodeling of an education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Educational Legislation, Global Approach
Sara Carlbaum; Joakim Lindgren; Malin Benerdal; Linda Rönnberg – Education Inquiry, 2024
National policies aiming at marketisation and privatisation in welfare sectors such as Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) require governance and organisation to be realised. In Sweden, the municipalities are key but largely under-researched organisers for preschool quasi-market infrastructures. This study explores the different ways in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Organizations
Jankvist, Uffe Thomas; Gregersen, Rikke Maagaard; Lauridsen, Sine Duedahl – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to present the need for stakeholders to share an agreed-on Theory of Change (ToC) during the various phases of an implementation process. To this end, we draw on the Swedish Boost for Mathematics (BM), a large-scale national educational initiative, and its intrinsic 'algebra' instructional module. More precisely, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change, Theories, Program Implementation
Malmqvist, Johan – Education Sciences, 2021
In Sweden, pupil referral units (PRUs) have been recommended by the government, suggesting that "inclusion has gone too far". This governmental recommendation is not based on research focusing on PRUs, as such research is sparse. Furthermore, there has been a lack of evaluations of the efficacy of PRUs, and no national evaluations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Referral, Educational Needs, Stakeholders
Gustafsson, Ulrika – Education Inquiry, 2021
The modest impact of national policy efforts on school digitalisation relates to a gap between views among policy-makers and practitioners, giving rise to complexity in translating policy into action. Acknowledging changes in governing through alternative policy formation-processes, and Ward and Parr's (2011) arguing for the importance of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries, Technology Integration
Bejnö, Hampus; Bölte, Sven; Linder, Nina; Långh, Ulrika; Odom, Samuel L.; Roll-Pettersson, Lise – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In Sweden, young autistic children typically attend community-based preschool programs, which may not be adapted to their needs. In the current study, stakeholders to autistic children receiving Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention were interviewed following a quasi-randomized study (#NCT03634761) aimed at improving the preschool program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Education
Lundberg, Adrian; Stigmar, Martin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
University teachers are expected to continuously improve their practice, but research about their viewpoints of future-ready universities is scarce. The paper contributes to educational research through paired Q methodology and investigates university teachers' shifting views of successful future learning environments, while being forced to move…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Distance Education
Julin Nyquist, Kristina; Ahonen-Jonnarth, Ulla – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
Universities play an important role in the development of society. However, it is not always clear what the objectives of collaboration between a Higher Education Institution (HEI) and external stakeholders from the surrounding society are. In this study, value-focused thinking was applied to construct structures of strategic, fundamental and…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Feedback (Response), Universities, Stakeholders
Karhina, Kateryna; Ineland, Jens; Vikström, Lotta – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
People with intellectual disabilities are the most disadvantaged group among all disability types when it comes to employment. In Sweden, special needs upper secondary schools prepare students with intellectual disabilities for the labour market using practice periods at workplaces. This study targets stakeholder involved in their school-to-work…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Musial, Kazimierz – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
The article deals with the validation of the internationalization imperative in higher education institutions (HEIs) of the Nordic countries. I focus on both the goals and motives behind activities supporting internationalization, but also on the manner of their habitualization and institutionalization in the practice of academic administration…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Strategic Planning
Burden, Håkan; Sprei, Frances – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to address the challenges of teaching sustainable development to computer engineering students. Part of the problem is that they perceive the topic as irrelevant for their future profession. Design/methodology/approach: To address this challenge, we introduced a project element into a course on sustainable…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Computer Science Education