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Bergström, Tove; Gunnarsson, Gunilla; Olteanu, Constanta – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
This article is intended to contribute to greater knowledge regarding the importance of flow and the time used to perform an activity, with a focus on students' mathematical experiences of 3D bodies. Thirty-one 9th-grade students took part in the study. Flow and variation theory was used in the analysis of lesson observations, submission tasks,…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
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Brezicha, Kristina F.; Leroux, Audrey J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Students' positive experiences in schools positively predicts students' political trust. However, little research has examined how individual students' feelings of exclusion at their schools may relate to students' political trust. Moreover, how does an overall sense of exclusion from the school relate to political trust apart from individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Cseplö, Erica; Wagnsson, Stefan; Luguetti, Carla; Spaaij, Ramón – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Background: Over the past five decades, the number of people from refugee backgrounds in developed countries has been on the constant rise. Although the field of refugee and forced migration studies in relation to education and sport has grown considerably in recent years, very little is known about refugee-background students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Refugees, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
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Wiltgren, Layal – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school staffs' views of a permissive, inclusive classroom climate, and high-performing minority students' stories of social exclusion. The students are seemingly well-integrated into the Swedish school system, they have good grades, high ambitions, and attend a prestigious school. However, students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Attitudes, Inclusion
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Winberg, Mikael; Tegmark, Mats; Vinterek, Monika; Alatalo, Tarja – Reading Psychology, 2022
As leisure-time reading among adolescents declines in the western world, stakeholders try to increase students' motivation for school-related reading. We examine the relationship of students' autonomous and controlled reading motivation with their amount and experiences of school-related reading in four school subjects, controlling for students'…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Affective Behavior, Student Experience
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Giota, Joanna; Bergh, Daniel; Emanuelsson, Ingemar – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2019
The study investigated student experiences of teaching practices in grade 9 at 2003, 2008 and 2014 after the Swedish education reforms of the 1990s. Teaching practices in both municipal and independent schools were related to student achievement and family background. Data from three nationally representative cohorts within the ongoing Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, School Choice
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Norling, Maja; Stenzelius, Karin; Ekman, Nina; Wennick, Anne – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
Previous research about school toilets is based on studies of children in elementary school. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences when using the school toilets reported by students aged 16-18 years. Qualitative interviews with 21 students were conducted and analyzed using content analysis. The data revealed that the toilets…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Experience, Sanitary Facilities, Interviews
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Lyons, Terry – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
This paper reviews the remarkably similar experiences of school science reported by high school students in Sweden, England, and Australia. It compares student narratives from interpretive studies by Lindahl, by Osborne and Collins, and by Lyons, identifying core themes relating to critical contemporary issues in science education. These themes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Student Experience, Science Curriculum
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Macbeath, John – Educational Review, 2006
The term "pupil voice" has, in recent years, become part of a wider discourse but tends to refer to a limited conception of young people "having a say" within the bounds of school convention. This article is about what Henry Giroux terms "border crossings," in which voice develops through a physical and intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Cross Cultural Studies, Interviews