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Gade, Sharada; Forsgren, Tomas L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
Cultural historical activity theory perspectives are drawn in this paper to realize collective transformative agency and the externalization of individual student identity, with students seeking personalized assistance from their teacher while learning mathematics at a grade eight classroom in Sweden. Even as teacher-researcher collaboration and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Transformative Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Help Seeking
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) More Good, Less Bad, and Still Need for Improvement: Latest International Test Reveals U.S. Progress in Math and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Guidance, Vocational Education, Public Education
Belding, Robert E. – 1974
PRYO, the Swedish acronym for Praktiske Yrkesorientering, translates into English as Practical Work Orientation. PRYO was the result of action taken by the Swedish legislature, excluding educational researchers for the most part, in which compulsory school attendance was extended from seven to nine years to further equalize Swedish education while…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comprehensive Programs, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Ronnberg, Linda; Lundahl, Lisbeth – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
A weakening of central time regulation has constituted one aspect of the process of decentralisation and deregulation of Swedish education in the last two decades. In 1999 the Parliament decided on an experiment period permitting schools in 79 municipalities to allocate school hours more freely. The article aims at exploring and analysing pupils'…
Descriptors: Freedom, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Time Factors (Learning)