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Åkerblom, Erika – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This article focus on how the Swedish population is shaped into desirable citizens as resources for the nation's prosperity. The aim is to analyse how health operates as a governing technique in discourses of lifelong learning. Within such current discourses the population is today described as generally well-educated and healthy, but not educated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Health, Educational Attainment
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Bengtsson, Jenny; Bolander, Eva – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
This article examines the tactical (counter) politics of inclusive and 'norm-critical' approaches in Swedish sex education, focusing on the enactment of this critical agenda in sex education practices and how teachers interpret and negotiate the possibilities and pitfalls of this kind of work. The analysis draws on participant observation in sex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Equal Education, Sex Education
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Trostek, Jonas R. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Previous research on how students' acceptance of emotionally charged theories relates to their understanding is based on the measurement of acceptance and understanding as two separate variables. As an alternative, the present study takes a qualitative approach with the aim of exploring what 24 upper-secondary school students accept when they come…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Gender Issues, Emotional Response, Predictor Variables
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Jerlinder, Kajsa; Danermark, Berth; Gill, Peter – Disability & Society, 2009
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A "school for all" means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of "disability" is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Physical Education, Social Status, Physical Disabilities
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Elmeroth, Elisabeth – Intercultural Education, 2009
The aim of the research reported in this paper was to study and analyse student attitudes towards ethnic diversity and their expectations regarding the school in creating positive attitudes. The results show that the majority of the students embrace a positive attitude towards multicultural society. However, this attitude varies when the variables…
Descriptors: Role Models, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism