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Hashemi, Sylvana Sofkova; Bunting, Leona Johansson – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Recent investments in schools in Sweden focus on increased availability of technology and ways to incorporate digital media in the classroom. Via the computer screen, students are involved in a new type of writing and communication culture that allows for new approaches in literacy instruction and learning (Lorentzen & Smidt, 2010). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Thornberg, Robert; Elvstrand, Helene – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate children's views and experiences of democracy and pupil participation in relation to everyday school life, and to let their voices be heard on these issues. The data for this paper was derived from two ethnographic research projects conducted in three elementary schools in Sweden. In the classes investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship
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Akerblom, Annika; Anderberg, Elsie; Alvegard, Christer; Svensson, Lennart – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
In this article the role of children's awareness of the function of language use is examined in an empirical, qualitative investigation. Forty children of six and 10 years old were asked to make sense of a science problem in special dialogue setting where they were encouraged to reflect on their own language use. The article concerns the interplay…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Usage, Qualitative Research, Dialogs (Language)
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Martin, Cathrin; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2012
This study explores how young children appropriate school rules and what opportunities for active participation are afforded in a Reggio Emilia elementary classroom with particular interest in the interactional and communicative competences children display in situated practice. An ethnographic and microanalytic approach is used to study how the…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, School Policy, Student Participation, Elementary School Students
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Trotman, Helen – Primary Science, 2010
In this article, the author, a Forest School Leader with Shropshire Wildlife Trust, shows how nature is the best teacher. She describes a new approach to out-of-classroom learning during which qualified leaders use simple challenges and achievable tasks to encourage child-initiated learning in the great outdoors. At Forest School, children are…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Science Instruction
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Kougioumtzis, Konstantin; Patriksson, Goran – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
During recent years, educational restructuring efforts have commonly regarded schools as both learning communities and sites for teachers' professional development. A plethora of attributes influence prerequisites as well as outcomes of the efforts, while teachers' local cultures constitute a cornerstone. More specifically, enhanced school-based…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Elementary Schools, Physical Education, Teacher Collaboration
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Hultman, Glenn; Löfgren, Ragnhild; Schoultz, Jan – Education Inquiry, 2012
This study concerns teachers' professional knowledge. Sixteen teachers, all with more than 25 years' experience in the profession, participated in the study in which they were given three different opportunities to show and formulate their professional skills. We initially asked the teachers to answer questions via e-mail. In the second part, the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Teaching Skills, Teacher Competencies, Foreign Countries
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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
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Damber, Ulla – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
Literacy acquisition by using computers and computer tablets is rapidly gaining ground in Swedish classrooms. This article explores the hypothesis that computer-writing vitalizes the learning of literacy, in comparison with approaches using books and pencils. The results of two separate studies in two different settings where prewriting and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Skill Development, Hypothesis Testing, Computer Uses in Education
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Jungert, Tomas; Andersson, Ulf – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim was to examine achievement and self-efficacy in mathematics and native and foreign language literacy in children with specific mathematic LD (MD-only), children with comorbid mathematic and reading difficulties (MD-RD), and compare them with children without LD (controls), as well as to explore gender differences. Participants were 143…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Literacy, Native Language
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Weshah, Hani A.; Al-Faori, Oraib; Sakal, Reham M. – College Student Journal, 2012
The purpose of this research was to report on a Child-Friendly School (CFS) initiative pilot project in Jordan, which aims at initiating the creation of CFS and to raise stakeholders' awareness of the importance of this project in promoting and implementing Child Rights Conviction (CRC) in Jordan. The study was conducted by a joint team selected…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Pilot Projects, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Reichenberg, Monica – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2008
A three year longitudinal intervention study is presented where two conditions of reading instruction are compared. In a base condition six teachers--four in the experimental groups and two in the control groups--and their students in grade 4-6 discussed expository texts during a regular lesson. The discussions, which took place in small groups,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Group Discussion
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Thornberg, Robert – Elementary School Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate and generate a grounded theory on how and why students behave as they do in school situations in which they witness another student in distress. Fieldwork and interviews were conducted in 2 Swedish elementary schools and guided by a grounded theory approach. The study resulted in a grounded theory of…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes, Moral Issues, Moral Values
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Olson, Richard K.; Keenan, Janice M.; Byrne, Brian; Samuelsson, Stefan; Coventry, William L.; Corley, Robin; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Willcutt, Erik G.; DeFries, John C.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Hulslander, Jacqueline – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Genetic and environmental relations between vocabulary and reading skills were explored longitudinally from preschool through Grades 2 and 4. At preschool there were strong shared-environment and weak genetic influences on both vocabulary and print knowledge but substantial differences in their source. Separation of etiology for vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Genetics, Word Recognition, Etiology
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Ljusberg, Anna-Lena – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to highlight the organisation of the remedial classroom. The data were collected from observations and semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers in remedial classes for children seen and treated as having concentration deficits. The teachers use primarily compensatory language that places the deficits in the pupils.…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Interviews, Remedial Instruction, Observation
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