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Holmberg, Margarita; Bernhard, Jonte – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The Laplace transform is an important tool in many branches of engineering, for example, electric and control engineering, but is also regarded as a difficult topic for students to master. We have interviewed 22 university teachers from five universities in three countries (Mexico, Spain and Sweden) about their views on relationships among…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Hallström, Jonas; Klasander, Claes – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2017
Technological systems are included as a component of national technology curricula and standards for primary and secondary education as well as corresponding teacher education around the world. Little is known, however, of how pupils, students, and teachers conceive of technological systems. In this article we report on a study investigating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Preservice Teachers
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Magnusson, Maria; Pramling, Niklas – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
The overarching interest of this study concerns how to outline learning opportunities and support in early childhood education (ECE) without losing its play-based character. More specifically, the study reports an empirical investigation into the evolving activity of a 6.5-year-old child and an adult conversing about the child's drawing of…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Skills
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Bergnehr, Disa; Cekaite, Asta – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
The present study examines adult-child touch and its functions in a Swedish preschool (for 1 to 5-year-old children). The data are naturalistic observations and video-recorded data of everyday preschool activities. The study describes the frequently occurring functions of educators' haptic conduct (control, affectionate, affectionate-control,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Tactual Perception
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Reichenberg, Olof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this article is to identify the mechanisms behind the occurrence of teaching practices of seatwork and recitation across lessons. The study is based on an analysis of 74 video recorded lessons from 4 school classes in Swedish comprehensive schools during 2013. Firstly, the results suggest that teaching practices such as seatwork…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Regression (Statistics), Video Technology
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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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Altinay, Fahriye; Altinay, Mehmet; Dagli, Gokmen; Altinay, Zehra – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the implementation and evaluation of knowledge management and e-transformation strategies of higher educational institutions in distance education. After an evaluation of higher educational practices in different countries, distance education was considered a different strategy and was emphasized…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Distance Education, Change Strategies, Access to Education
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Andersson, Joacim; Risberg, Jonas – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: While studies of teaching frequently preserve an interest in teacher-pupil encounters that take place in certain spots, this article shows how teachers' can be understood as "in-path" instructors, which is significant for student-based learning. This complements studies that have mainly focused on teachers instructional work…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Educational Environment, Teacher Role
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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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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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Henry, Alastair; Korp, Helena; Sundqvist, Pia; Thorsen, Cecilia – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
Motivational strategies are underresearched, and studies so far conducted have been in sociolinguistic contexts where English is not extensively encountered outside the classroom. Given also that little is known about strategies relating to the design and content of classroom activities, the purpose of this study is to identify and critically…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Andersson, Joacim; Risberg, Jonas – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2018
The article draws on body pedagogics and considers that teaching and learning experiences and outcomes are directly related to the different characteristics of movement behaviour. In this article movement behaviour specifically centres on a sloyd (handicraft education) teacher's walk through the classroom. The analysis illuminate the specific…
Descriptors: Human Body, Educational Philosophy, Learning Theories, Behavior Patterns
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Walan, Susanne; Mc Ewen, Birgitta – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: The European Union asks for renewed pedagogies in schools according to teaching strategies and necessary competences for the twenty-first century, instead of the often-used transmissive pedagogies. The national Swedish competition in science and technology for grade eight, The Technology Eight, provides an opportunity for teachers to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Reflection
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Leier, Vera; Gruber, Alice – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
This paper reports on a study investigating the use of digital devices by language students at universities in New Zealand, Sweden and Germany. The study also examines the use of social media for learning a foreign language in an institutional context, using survey results from language students in the three countries. Based on an online survey…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Hedman, Christina; Mannish, Scarlett – English in Education, 2022
This study emerged from the abrupt shift to online distance teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic and reports of "Mother Tongue Instruction" (MTI) in Sweden, where online distance teaching was initially introduced in MTI only. In Sweden, MTI is offered to students whose parents/caregivers speak languages other than Swedish on a daily…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Native Language Instruction, Swedish, Second Language Learning
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