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Haglund, Björn; Boström, Lena – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Research directed at institutions focusing on diverse aspects of childrens social and cognitive development outside school is a growing field. This article discusses Swedish school-age educare centres for children between 6-12 years of age before and after school. These centres are regarded as important for young children's learning and care,…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Educational Quality, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Ninni Wahlström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
How could the technicality arising from eleven percent of students being excluded from a PISA test in Sweden trigger a polarized debate followed by investigations by both the OECD and national authorities? This question is explored in the study by drawing on discursive institutionalism, especially the concept of normative background ideas,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Henrik Sällberg; Emil Folino – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The many challenges faced by instructors in distance education have been extensively documented in current literature. Nevertheless, the relative importance of such challenges has not been researched to the same extent. As instructors and institutions face limitations in terms of time and budget, the ability to effectively prioritise challenges…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty
Gapsalamov, Almaz; Akhmetshin, Elvir; Bochkareva, Tatyana; Vasilev, Vladimir; Anisimova, Tatyana – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
The quality of national education depends on many factors, which traditionally include adult literacy, the total share of students receiving general, secondary vocational and higher education, the level of the material and technical base, etc. Based on these factors, a list of leading countries by the level of education is formed. The authors…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Competition, Foreign Countries, Information Technology
Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
As higher education quality assurance in many countries in Europe has become a mature activity, some agencies carrying out external quality assurance are developing beyond their core tasks and missions. The current study identifies new tasks taken up within quality assurance agencies and analyses the drivers behind such development. Based on an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
Vinnervik, Peter – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In Sweden, as in many other countries, programming has been added to the curriculum in recent years. This paper explores how and under what conditions programming is transformed into teaching in technology education. Teachers in grade 7-9 were interviewed about what and how they teach about programming in the context of technology education, and…
Descriptors: Programming, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
Malmqvist, Johan – Education Sciences, 2021
In Sweden, pupil referral units (PRUs) have been recommended by the government, suggesting that "inclusion has gone too far". This governmental recommendation is not based on research focusing on PRUs, as such research is sparse. Furthermore, there has been a lack of evaluations of the efficacy of PRUs, and no national evaluations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Referral, Educational Needs, Stakeholders
Palla, Linda; Sjögren, Hanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The purpose of this critical study is to generate knowledge about decisions by education authorities that serve an advisory and normative function for Swedish preschool education at the operational level, with a focus on work with children in need of special support. This has been achieved by scrutinising documents generated in conjunction with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Special Needs Students, Preschool Children
Benito, Eva; Verge, Tània – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
Gender equality goals for higher education are found in all national legislations. This notwithstanding, quality assurance conceptual frameworks and practitioners' work in the European Higher Education Area have tended to be gender-blind and thus remained disconnected from gender equality concerns. Focusing on the policy innovations recently…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Nasiopoulou, Panagiota; Williams, Pia; Lantz-Andersson, Annika – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study explores preschool teachers' considerations regarding their work with curriculum content areas and examines possible relationships with their professional competence and group size. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory and mixed-methods analytical procedure, this study analyzes 698 preschool teachers' considerations on…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Curriculum, Teacher Competencies, Preferences
Håkansson, Jan; Adolfsson, Carl-Henrik – Journal of Educational Change, 2022
International policy trends point to an increased focus on student achievement, teaching quality, and school outcomes. Attention to Swedish students' poor academic achievement over the past two decades has resulted in an increased emphasis on the responsibility of municipalities and schools to create a better educational atmosphere through…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Administration, Governance, Total Quality Management
Christer Larsson – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2023
This article proposes and discusses a theoretical framework that combines elements from critical policy sociology and discourse theory to study enactments of policy for research-based music teaching in three Swedish policy contexts. Sweden, being the first country to incorporate legal demands for research-based education into its Education Act in…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Professionalism, Discourse Analysis
Karolina Fredriksson; Olle Zandén; Cecilia Wallerstedt – Music Education Research, 2024
This article reports a meta-synthesis of 14 qualitative studies on how teachers can support students' musical learning. The aim of the article is twofold: to (1) contribute to empirically grounded knowledge in music education, and (2) advance the methodological development of meta-synthesis in qualitative research. All included studies have a…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Perspective Taking
Svärdemo Åberg, Eva; Insulander, Eva – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This article presents a meta-interpretative synthesis of contrasting research studies about methodological and theoretical challenges for Swedish preschool teachers in systematic quality development work. The first challenge involves an awareness of producing documentation from different levels of preschool work. The second challenge concerns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Documentation
Lundin, Hans; Geschwind, Lars – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This article sheds light on some challenges that internationalisation raises for policymakers regarding public funding of higher education in a welfare state by examining policy logics for introducing tuition fees for international students in Sweden 2011. Using thematic analysis of documents related to the Swedish reform, we identify how an…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Educational Policy, Social Systems