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Svensson, Carl-Johan; Samuelsson, Tobias – Social Studies, 2021
Lately, theme parks have emphasized the learning and edutainment aspects of their business. This has created new opportunities for theme parks and schools to cooperate. Research has shown that learning at science centers, a similar form of learning arena, tends to be out of context and that the learning outcomes are meager. High Chaparral, in…
Descriptors: Parks, Social Studies, History Instruction, Informal Education
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Lee, Ju Seong; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Contemporary young students in Asia and in the Nordic region are increasingly learning English outside the classroom by using technology (a.k.a. Informal Digital Learning of English [IDLE]). This comparative study examines to what extent "IDLE" influences Korean and Swedish students' "willingness to communicate in a second language…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Thorgersen, Ketil – Education Sciences, 2020
Whoa.nu started in 2000 as a community where members discussed all aspects of hip-hop in Sweden. The community became the most important place not only for discussions among members but also for releasing free albums and songs to the public and for arranging events. Moreover, the site was an educational hub for members to learn about hip-hop. The…
Descriptors: Music, Learning Processes, Singing, Web Sites
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Fejes, Andreas; Dahlstedt, Magnus – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
In this article, we direct our focus on some of the recent activities undertaken by popular education institutions in Sweden in relation to the refugee challenge in 2015. The aim is to analyse how these popular education activities are shaped as specific communities of practice, through the ways they are described by those who organised these, and…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Student Attitudes
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Falkner, Kajsa; Larsson, Johanna Dahlberg – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
The aim is to describe special education teacher students' learning in the field of tension between informal learning during day-to-day work and formal university education. From the theoretical framework of Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner, we perceive the students as moving on a learning trajectory through a landscape of practice. The students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Informal Education
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Wernholm, Marina – Designs for Learning, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate children's out-of-school learning in digital gaming communities. This was achieved by exploring girls' participation in Minecraft communities. Data were generated through interviews, video-recorded play sessions and video-stimulated recall. Multimodal interactional analysis was applied in order to analyze…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Computer Games, Females, Video Technology
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Fransson, Göran; Norman, Fredrik – Teacher Development, 2021
The call for digitalisation in compulsory and upper secondary schools implies the need for teachers to pursue professional development. Here, teachers' self-understanding may influence how they use, relate to and learn about digital technologies. The purpose of this article is to explore how a teacher's self-understanding influences his…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Integration, Professional Development, Learning Strategies
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Lonnert, Lia – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2023
The focus in this study is the relationships between one tertiary music academy and four amateur orchestras. In this study the kinds of cooperation that exist, how students benefit from participating in amateur orchestras, and how cooperation can be further developed is identified. Four administrators from the academy and four conductors were…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making
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Schurz, Alexandra; Coumel, Marion – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Today, the Common European Framework of Reference (2009), and with it the action-based approach, underlies English Language Teaching (ELT) curricula throughout Europe. However, actual teaching practices are likely to vary according to factors such as the educational level and supra-national differences, including legal guidelines and the level of…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gonsalves, Allison J.; Johansson, Anders; Nyström, Anne-Sofie; Danielsson, Anna T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
For young women, inbound identity trajectories into physics are generally regarded as exceptional. In this study, we investigated the experiences that young women have which may support their sustained interest and achievement in physics, and their ongoing inbound trajectories into post-secondary physics education. To understand these experiences,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Females, Self Concept
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2017
A national qualifications framework (NQF) is an instrument used to classify a country's qualifications at different levels. Each level is defined by a set of learning outcomes expected at that level. NQFs can be useful tools in education and training reforms and are vital reference points for lifelong learning and comparing qualifications across…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Outcomes of Education, National Programs, Regional Programs
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Parding, Karolina; Berg-Jansson, Anna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to examine and discuss learning conditions for teachers, in the context of choice and decentralisation reforms. Design/methodology/approach: This article is based on analyses of 30 interviews with Swedish upper secondary teachers focusing on their experiences of their conditions for learning. Findings: This paper shows how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Bradley, Linda; Bahous, Rima; Albasa, Ali – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This research project investigates mobile literacy of Syrian refugee women teachers settled in Lebanon and Sweden. Our research provides input into Syrian refugee women teachers' professional aspirations and their connection to informal mobile learning. In both countries, training programs are used for these newly arrived teachers, enabling them…
Descriptors: Literacy, Refugees, Land Settlement, Females
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Lockett, Nigel; Quesada-Pallarès, Carla; Williams-Middleton, Karen; Padilla-Meléndez, Antonio; Jack, Sarah – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
While entrepreneurship education increasingly uses various means to connect students to the "real world", the impact of social networking on learning remains underexplored. This qualitative study of student entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom and Sweden shows that their entrepreneurial journey becomes increasingly complex, requiring…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
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Wallerstedt, Cecilia; Lindgren, Monica – British Journal of Music Education, 2016
Music education in formal settings has the last decades been characterised by informal methods borrowed from outside school. In this study we analyse situations in Swedish secondary school where pupils' experience of music outside school becomes visible in music class. Pedagogical challenges in these situations are identified that concern how to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Informal Education
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