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Andersson, Irene; Johansson, Roger – Journal of Peace Education, 2010
This article profiles Swedish professor Ake Bjerstedt and discusses his contributions to the field of peace education. Bjerstedt helped history researchers a great deal by writing bibliographies like "Educating towards a culture of peace. A select bibliography focusing on the last 25 years", 2001, and by keeping a well organized archive…
Descriptors: Peace, Profiles, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Hallstrom, Jonas – History of Education, 2010
The aim of this article is to investigate and analyse the cultural boundaries of school biology, and to a certain extent the natural science subjects in general, in two Swedish curriculum reforms, from the viewpoint of the Swedish Association of Biology Teachers (ABT). Thomas Gieryn's concept of boundary-work is thus used in analysing how the ABT…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Biology, Natural Sciences, Science Instruction
Aström Elmersjö, Henrik – Education Inquiry, 2011
This article explores the different meanings of "Europe" in Swedish history textbooks over the course of the 20th century. Utilising the concept of myth, this textbook analysis looks at how the older history of Europe, and Sweden in relation to Europe, had changed by the end of the century. In particular, it examines the way in which…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Educational History, Textbooks, Content Analysis
Cochran, Moncrieff – Educational Policy, 2011
In this chapter Dr. Cochran uses an empirically based overarching conceptual framework linking historical patterns, current policy goals and intervening influences as a tool for understanding the policy and program outcomes manifested in the early education programs of representative Western countries (Australia, France, Italy, Sweden). Policy…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, Educational Change
Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2011
What significance did donations, bequests, tuition fees and fund-raising events have for early care and education programmes during the nineteenth and early twentieth century? Through an examination of 24 Swedish infant schools, day nurseries and free kindergartens, this article verifies that donations and bequests were essential for the economy…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Foreign Countries, Tuition, Financial Support
The Effects of Reducing Tracking in Upper Secondary School: Evidence from a Large-Scale Pilot Scheme
Hall, Caroline – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
By exploiting an extensive pilot scheme that preceded an educational reform, this paper evaluates the effects of introducing a more comprehensive upper secondary school system in Sweden. The reform reduced the differences between academic and vocational tracks through prolonging and increasing the academic content of the latter. As a result, all…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Vocational Education
Nordin, Andreas – Education Inquiry, 2014
Around the mid-2000s a crisis discourse emerged in educational policy-making in the EU and in Sweden. Using the EU and Sweden as empirical references, this article explores how this crisis discourse has been and is employed by politicians and NGOs. Discourse Institutionalism is used as an overall theoretical framework focusing on how the crisis…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, Discourse Analysis
Billstedt, Eva; Gillberg, I. Carina; Gillberg, Christopher – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The present study is a long-term prospective follow-up study of a population-based cohort of 120 individuals diagnosed with autism in childhood, followed into late adolescence/early adulthood. Specific aims of the study were to attempt to measure and study social aspects/quality of life in those 108 individuals with autism alive and available for…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Educational History, Autism, Quality of Life
Sriraman, Bharath, Ed.; Bergsten, Christer, Ed.; Goodchild, Simon, Ed.; Palsdottir, Gudbjorg, Ed.; Sondergaard, Bettina Dahl, Ed.; Haapasalo, Lenni, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland provides the first comprehensive and unified treatment of historical and contemporary research trends in mathematics education in the Nordic world. The book is organized in sections co-ordinated by active researchers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Mathematics Education, Public Education
Breen, Richard – Social Forces, 2010
Sociologists consider inequality in educational attainment to be a major cause of inequality between people in their chances of occupying a more advantageous class position. However, there is dispute as to whether educational inequality according to social class background declined during the 20th century. What is not in doubt is the expansion of…
Descriptors: Social Class, Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Hedlin, Maria – Gender and Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to elucidate how the girl who chooses technology came to be the symbol of the non-traditional pupil's choice in Sweden. In the early 1960s it was hoped that girls would enter workshop training and then commit themselves to engineering mechanics jobs at a time when Sweden was characterised by economic growth which was…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Students
Hedlin, Maria – Education Inquiry, 2012
In 1962 the Swedish Parliament decided on a school reform. Meritocracy and equal opportunity were important goals. However, these ideals were not applied to elementary school teacher education, where a sex quota policy favoured male applicants. In the parliamentary debate, a woman member of the Right Wing Party raised objections to the policy. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education, Gender Bias
Aubry, Carla, Ed.; Westberg, Johannes, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of schooling on international, national and local levels. Three issues of great significance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, International Education, Global Approach
Johansson, Olof; Nihlfors, Elisabet – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
During the last several decades, educational reform in Sweden has been at once contentious, fast paced, and uneven as control of Parliament and educational policy shifted between left- and right-wing political factions. These political power shifts within Parliament created tension between national and local municipal governments and provoked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Superintendents, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Berhanu, Girma – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
This paper maps out the challenges and responses to inclusive education in Sweden from a cultural/historical point of view. Core concepts that have bearing on inclusive education practices are discussed. The analysis incorporates varied materials. As the current Swedish political and educational discourses reflect contradictions and dilemmas among…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Disabilities, Foreign Countries