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Lelinge, Balli; Svensson, Christina – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
Few research studies have been conducted in a primary school in early mathematical education about the teaching of geometry. This research aims to contribute with knowledge of how teachers' awareness and understanding of necessary conditions to enhance students' abilities to discern two- and three-dimensional shapes develop. In this research,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Geometric Concepts, Concept Formation, Spatial Ability
Bråting, Kajsa – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Although there have been a huge number of attempts to improve school algebra teaching, several countries are still struggling to improve students algebraic skills. In this study, we focus on the specific case of Sweden where students for several decades have had major problems mastering algebra. In order to get a better understanding of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Algebra
Kloo, Mattias; Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda – Journal of School Violence, 2023
The aim of the present study was to investigate and clarify the association between authoritative teaching at the classroom level and bullying perpetration and victimization among Swedish upper elementary school students. For this purpose, authoritative teaching was analyzed both as combined construct, and as the effects of the two dimensions that…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Authoritarianism, Bullying, Victims
Olovsson, Tord Göran – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose is to analyse how teaching and learning take place in integrated social studies teaching in relation to various curriculum goals and what consequences the teaching has for students' approaches to learning. Design/methodology/approach: Ethnographic fieldwork is used in ten integrated thematic units conducted in four classes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Integrated Curriculum, Outcomes of Education
Van Rossum, Tom; Foweather, Lawrence; Hayes, Spencer; Richardson, David; Morley, David – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
The aim of this study was to establish the content of a teacher-oriented movement assessment tool (MAT) for children aged 4-7 years. A three-round Delphi poll with an international panel of forty-six academics and practitioners was conducted. Consensus was reached on a selection and number of fundamental movement skills to be assessed with four…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Basic Skills, Tests, Elementary School Students
Relational Competence Regarding Students with ADHD -- An Intervention Study with In-Service Teachers
Ewe, Linda Plantin; Aspelin, Jonas – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
Research suggests that supportive teacher-student relationships are a prerequisite for student development. Developing such relationships requires teachers to observe, interpret, and reflect on teacher-student interactions and on teachers' relational competence in practice. Although teacher-student relationships are especially challenging with…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
Björn Ahlström; Marit Aas – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
In this paper, we investigate how professional cultures and situated, material and external contexts relate to dynamic low- and underperforming schools in Scandinavia, particularly how the leadership is constructed through the leader, the followers and the situation. The first school studied was a low-performing school in Norway called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
Eva Hammar Chiriac; Camilla Forsberg; Robert Thornberg – Cogent Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore and analyse teachers' perspectives on factors influencing the school climate, to better understand teachers' everyday efforts in influencing the school climate, including obstacles they might experience. Bronfenbrenner's social-ecological theory was utilized as the overarching theoretical perspective. Data were…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Influences, Barriers
Ludvigsson, David; Stolare, Martin; Trenter, Cecilia – Education 3-13, 2022
Haptics in the sense of active touch, as well as internally felt bodily sensations, add an important dimension to learning sessions at historical sites. Drawing on observations of primary school pupils visiting historical sites in Sweden, and interviews with pupils, teachers, and site educators following the visits, this study investigates in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Historic Sites, Teacher Attitudes
Robert Thornberg; Björn Sjögren; Gianluca Gini; Tiziana Pozzoli – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
The overall objective of this study was to investigate the longitudinal association between diffusion of responsibility and pro-aggressive bystander behavior across three time points in upper elementary education. This three-wave longitudinal study included 1905 Swedish students who completed a questionnaire in at least one of the three waves: the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Responsibility, Audiences, Elementary School Students
Blanck, Sara – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This article contributes to the discussion of teaching migration in upper primary school by examining teachers' didactical choices concerning specialized knowledge and pupils' previous knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: The approach is practice-based design research, in which meetings with teachers and focus group interviews with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level
Jonsson, Kristina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Work to support pupils' social learning in Swedish school-age educare (SAEC) may be understood to depend on how the principal leads the staff and how the vision is set. Therefore, in this article the principals' vision of social learning is investigated. Data are collected from group interviews with principals and analysed from an interactionist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Principals, Elementary Schools
Helén Egerhag; Heidi Selenius; Linda Fälth; Idor Svensson – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Many second language (L2) students in Sweden struggle with reading in Swedish. There needs to be more research on how L2 students with weak word decoding skills in Swedish could be individually supported. Therefore, the current study examined the impact of a systematic and intensive word decoding intervention in Swedish among individual L2…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Intervention, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Camilla Forsberg; Eva Hammar Chiriac; Robert Thornberg – Educational Studies, 2025
School climate is crucial for understanding everyday school life. For pupils, breaktime seems to be associated with how they feel about their school climate. To better understand school climate and what social processes pupils address, this study explores pupils' perspectives on school climate with attention on how they perceive their breaktimes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Asami-Johansson, Yukiko; Attorps, Iiris; Winsløw, Carl – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate and compare lessons given in primary school teacher education in Japan, Finland and Sweden. We analyse one lesson from each country and compare them using a common framework. Chevallard's anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD) is used to frame this analysis and in particular to model teacher educators'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs