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Sund, Louise – Environmental Education Research, 2016
Over the last 20 years, international organisations and national governments have stressed the need for education policies to be (re)oriented towards social change, sustainability and preparing students for life in a global society. This area of pedagogy is not problem free. When policy is turned into practice teachers need to take a number of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries
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Krantz, Göran – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
The act of teaching is constituted by tensions between contradictory influences of national educational systems, teachers' professional/personal identity, cultural and social values. Qualitative research methods can explore this complex situation. Indeed, narrative methods have explored teachers' "life histories". This article provides a…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Comparative Analysis, Professional Identity, Self Concept
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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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Andersson, Ingrid; Andersson, Sven B. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about conditions for boundary crossing between academic and vocational practices and to identify dimensions of social practice within workplaces. The data consist of 28 questionnaires and 14 in-depth interviews with newly qualified secondary school teachers in their first year of teaching. We use the…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development, Questionnaires
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Carlgren, Ingrid; Klette, Kirsti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
This article deals with the question of how the restructuring of educational systems in Nordic countries affects teachers' working conditions. It is based on results from the project "Restructuring in Education: Reform policy and teacher professionalism in different Nordic contexts" in which the construction of the "New…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, Teaching Experience
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Rosendahl, Birgit Lendahls; Ronnerman, Karin – Journal of In-service Education, 2006
Promoting local development in order to support school improvement is an important aspect of contemporary educational policy in Sweden. Recent state initiatives have sought to combine curriculum and teacher development. A common form of cooperation is facilitation, where academics support groups of teachers in their school projects. This article…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Researchers, Educational Policy