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Axell, Cecilia; Hallström, Jonas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Children's fiction in school libraries have played and still play a role in mediating representations of technology and attitudes towards technology to schoolchildren. In early 20th century Sweden, elementary education, including textbooks and literature that were used in teaching, accounted for the main mediation of technological knowledge to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Elementary Education, School Libraries
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Wikberg, Stina – Education Inquiry, 2013
This article discusses whether and how Art education is gendered, and whether and how the art world is gendered. The history of Art education is briefly described from a gender perspective, as well as some current reports on Art education in Sweden. The article draws on material from a postgraduate study about Art education and gender. Art lessons…
Descriptors: Art Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Gender Bias
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Qvarsebo, Jonas U. D. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
This article examines the vision of the Swedish comprehensive school reform between 1946-1962 as it pertains to the ever-troubling questions of discipline and order in school. Inspired primarily by the work of Michel Foucault and his genealogical perspective, the article problematises the notion that character formation and school discipline…
Descriptors: Discipline, Politics of Education, School Restructuring, Progressive Education
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Martin, Florence; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Budhrani, Kiran – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Systematic reviews of literature are studies that strategically search for published research on a specific topic in order to synthesize what is known about the topic. This systematic review describes 157 articles on synchronous online learning (SOL) from thirty-four different countries on instructional setting, content areas, participant…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
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Hallström, Jonas; Hultén, Magnus; Lövheim, Daniel – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2014
Today, technology education in Sweden is both a high-status and a low-status phenomenon. Positive values such as economic growth, global competitiveness and the sustainability of the welfare state are often coupled with higher engineering education and sometimes even upper secondary education. Negative values, on the other hand, are often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Design, Technology Education
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Hultén, Magnus – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The article examines the stability and success of ideas within pedagogical discourses. Why do certain ideas attract actors and how does change come about? These general questions are dealt with through considering the example of the swift spread of an interdisciplinary idea, "arbetsområde" (translated to "spheres of work") in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, National Curriculum
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West, Anne – Research Papers in Education, 2014
Academies (and free schools) in England and independent grant-aided schools, "fristående skolor" (or "friskolor"), in Sweden have been the subject of much academic debate, but there is a paucity of comparative research relating to policy development or outcomes. This paper adopts a comparative perspective, outlining the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
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Beach, Dennis; Bagley, Carl – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Modern definitions of professions connect professional knowledge to scientific studies and higher education. In the present article we examine the changing nature of this relationship in initial teacher education in two European countries: Sweden and England. The article is based on policy analyses from recent decades of teacher education reforms.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Landahl, Joakim – History of Education, 2013
This article considers the emergence and meaning of a particular kind of surveillance in classrooms: the one represented by the gaze of the teacher. Drawing on teaching manuals and other normative material published between the 1820s and the 1960s, it is argued that the optical regime of the classroom underwent a decisive change during the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Observation, Teacher Role
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Wermke, Wieland; Höstfält, Gabriella – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This study aims to develop a model for comparing different forms of teacher autonomy in various national contexts and at different times. Understanding and explaining local differences and global similarities in the teaching profession in a globalized world require conceptions that contribute to further theorization of comparative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Governance
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Ronaldsson, Lennart; Skogh, Inga-Britt – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
In this article, the development of the Swedish informatics curriculum during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s is studied and described. The study's design is inspired by the curriculum theory presented by Lindensjö and Lundgren [2000], who suggest using the concept of arenas (the arenas of enactment, transformation and realisation) when discussing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Science, Curriculum Development, Educational History
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Culver, Steven M.; Warfvinge, Per – European Journal of Higher Education, 2013
In both Europe and the United States, accountability pressures have continued to increase, spurred by the higher-level policy groups represented by the EC in Europe and by the federal government in the US, forcing institutions to measure their effectiveness in ways that are more transparent to governmental bodies and the general public. These ways…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Wiborg, Susanne – Comparative Education, 2013
This article investigates neo-liberal policy on education in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Traditionally, the edifice of the education system in these Scandinavian countries has been built on egalitarian values, but over the last 20 years they have increasingly adopted market-led reforms of education. The extent of neo-liberal policy varies between…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Equal Education
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Pettersson, Daniel; Prøitz, Tine Sophie; Forsberg, Eva – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
By analysing five separate OECD reviews of evaluation and assessment practices with Norway and Sweden as cases, our study illustrates different ways in which a specific international educational reasoning is blended into more context-based national education policies and, as such, works in parallel with internal reforms and agendas. It is evident…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, International Education, Educational Change
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Kozma, Tamás; Tozsér, Zoltán – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012
After the brutal uprising of 1956, there was a decade of gradual reform in Hungary under the Kadar regime. As part of this decade of reform, Hungary received permission to join the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievements), an organisation that had been established in the late 1950s by the well-known Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Case Studies, Educational History
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