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The Research Circle - A Tool for Preschool Teachers' Professional Learning and Preschool Development
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Elm, Annika; Nordqvist, Ingrid – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
The article explores a professional learning programme, a research circle, in which preschool teachers and researchers collaborate on content relating to sustainable development, science and technology. It investigates how collaborations between preschool teachers and researchers can contribute to professional learning and preschool development.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Researchers
Impact of Initiatives to Implement Science Inquiry: A Comparative Study of the Turkish, Israeli, Swedish and Czech Science Education Systems
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Heinz, Jana; Enghag, Margareta; Stuchlikova, Iva; Cakmakci, Gultekin; Peleg, Ran; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
This empirical study investigates factors that influence the implementation of science inquiry in the education systems of Turkey, Israel, Sweden and the Czech Republic. Data was collected by means of recordings of science experts' discussions as part of an EU-funded project called Science-Teacher Education Advanced Methods (2009-2012). Results of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Teacher Education
Cultivating Swedishness? Examples of Imagined Kinship during the First Half of the 20th Century
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Thomasson, Adrian – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Different representations of "Swedishness," as expressions of altered kinds of imagined kinship in the Swedish educational system during the first half of the 20th century, are discussed. It is argued that even though the curriculum changed, from a more religious one focusing on fostering loyalty and moral commitment to "God, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Religious Education
The Uses of the Term Hypothesis and the Inquiry Emphasis Conflation in Science Teacher Education
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Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wickman, Per-Olof – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This paper examines the use and role of the term "hypothesis" in science teacher education as described by teacher students. Data were collected through focus group interviews conducted at seven occasions with 32 students from six well-known Swedish universities. The theoretical framework is a sociocultural and pragmatist perspective on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Scientific Research, Education Courses
Higher Education and Knowledge Policies: A Personal View.
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Bergendal, Gunnar – Journal of Higher Education, 1983
Higher education policies must be based on considerations of the conditions of knowledge in society: knowledge as distinct from science, traditions, knowledge and power, and schools as institutions of knowledge. Science represents only some of the traditions forming Western culture, as has been learned from Sweden's experience with higher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Knowledge Traditions in Higher Education. R and D for Higher Education.
Bergendal, Gunnar – 1980
Issues pertaining to knowledge traditions that are important to the reform of higher education in Sweden are considered. While nonacademic parts of higher education (e.g., vocational/technical, nursing) account for more than half of its admissions, it is suggested that thinking regarding higher education in recent years has used the ideals of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Role, Educational Change, Educational History