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Gustafsson, Jan – Ethnography and Education, 2018
The present article examines the general debate on curriculum differentiation and individualisation. Based on a policy ethnographic case study of class 9a at Forest School, it critically analyses how curriculum differentiation and individualisation are enacted in and interfere with classroom practice. The results show how Forest School's…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Investigations
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Olovsson, Tord Göran – Education 3-13, 2015
This paper describes and analyses the assessment process in a Swedish year five classroom, involving pupils aged 11 to 12 years. The paper is based on classroom observations and interviews, which were analysed to explore the assessment process in daily classroom practice, and investigates how the assessment process was understood by pupils and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology
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Bjerstedt, Sven – Music Education Research, 2015
Theoretical approaches to learning in practice-based jazz improvisation contexts include situated learning and ecological perspectives. This article focuses on how interest-driven, self-sustaining jazz learning activities can be matched against the results of a recent Swedish investigation based on extensive qualitative interviews with jazz…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Music Education, Music, Learning Activities
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Holmén, Magnus; Ljungberg, Daniel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
In this paper, we investigate the perception of academics regarding how their experiences from societal interaction (third mission) inform their teaching and vice versa. We report on a phone survey of Swedish academics in three engineering-related disciplines. The findings show that there is a perceived positive and bidirectional relationship…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Investigations, Teacher Attitudes, Social Cognition
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Quennerstedt, Mikael; Ohman, Johan; Ohman, Marie – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to suggest and describe a methodological approach for studies of learning within school physical education (PE) in order to investigate and clarify issues of learning in an embodied practice. Drawing on John Dewey's work, and especially his use of the concept "transaction", a transactional approach is…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Teaching Methods
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Davidsson, Eva; Jakobsson, Anders – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
This study investigates staff members' ideas and assumptions about visitors' learning at science and technology centres. It also aims to explore in what ways their reasoning intersect with existing theories about learning within the field of science and technology centre research. The results of the study reveal that the staff members allude to…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Learning Processes, Epistemology, Investigations
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Svensson, Lennart; Wihlborg, Monne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper presents results from an interview investigation with teachers in Swedish nurse education especially interested in internationalising the education. The aim has been to study teachers' understandings and experiences of internationalisation against the backdrop of the strong concern for internationalisation expressed in policy documents.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Nurses, Curriculum Research, Teacher Attitudes