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Cekaite, Asta; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This article focuses on children's language alternation practices in two primary school settings. More specifically we explore how participants (children and teachers) in episodes of language alternation invoke linguistic and social identities, thereby "talking into being" language and educational ideologies. The present study is based…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Multilingualism, Ethnography
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Thornberg, Robert – Research in Education, 2008
This article reports an overview of the findings from an ethnographic research project conducted in two Swedish primary schools with the aim of exploring values education that takes place in day-to-day interactions of teachers and students. Teachers' main concern in their practice of values education is to attempt to teach students to be nice and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Ethnography, Values Education, Student Behavior
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Williams, Pia – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
This study describes children's awareness of what it means to teach a game to a peer where the act of teaching becomes expression of the child's possible awareness. Awareness is defined as the attention to different aspects of the teaching process shown by the teaching child, sometimes through their own verbal reflection. This implies an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peer Teaching, Games, Elementary School Students
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Yang-Hansen, Kajsa – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
This study examined changes in the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on reading achievement at individual and school levels between 1991 and 2001. Data from 9 countries that participated in both the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Reading Literacy Study 1991 and the Trend Study in the Progress in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Trends, Socioeconomic Influences, Hypothesis Testing
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McEwen, Birgitta – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
How do we support the enthusiasm children show for biology in school? Unfortunately, lack of exciting practical work and boring biology lessons seem to make science less popular. As a senior lecturer in plant physiology at Karlstad University I have simplified experiments intended for students at university and then tested them on 10-11 year old…
Descriptors: Biology, Genetics, Science Instruction, Heredity
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Hellsten, IngaMaj – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2006
This paper seeks to explore the impact of IT on school and teacher cultures. It reports on Swedish teachers' use of IT in different school subjects by means of a case study comprising one school, four teachers (2 men and 2 women), and their pupils aged 9-12. The methods of data collection used were interviews and observations. The aim of the study…
Descriptors: Educational History, Technology Integration, Information Technology, Elementary School Students
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Berglund, Jenny – Ethnography and Education, 2008
We can note a varied use and attitudes to song and music in Islam. In the classroom of Sana--a primary school teacher of Islamic religious education (IRE) in a Muslim school in Sweden--music is an important but not uncontested part of IRE. The music not only supports themes discussed in the classroom but also gives variation to the education. A…
Descriptors: Music Education, Role Models, Muslims, Music Activities
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Hjorne, Eva; Saljo, Roger – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
The purpose of this study is to analyse pupil welfare team meetings as an institutional context for handling dilemmas of schooling. Our focus is on how difficulties encountered by teachers and pupils are categorized and accounted for by team members (teachers, school administrators, and various experts). As a discourse community, the pupil welfare…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Student Welfare, School Personnel, Meetings
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Nyroos, Mikaela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
During the last three decades Swedish education has undergone radical decentralisation involving increased school autonomy. One aspect of this change is the gradual weakening of the state regulation of teaching time. Thus, Sweden is somewhat of an extreme in the EU. This is accentuated by a five-year experiment, where 900 compulsory schools were…
Descriptors: State Regulation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Administrative Organization
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Holmqvist, Mona; Gustavsson, Laila; Wernberg, Anna – Educational Action Research, 2007
In this article an educational action research study, based on a phenomenographic approach, is reported in which unexpected results have been possible to gather thanks to the inductive design of the study. The aim is to describe the ways in which contrasts of critical aspects of a learning object affect the students' generative learning found by…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Action Research, Research Design, Phenomenology
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Ferm, Cecilia – Music Education Research, 2006
The aim of this article is to present and discuss the background to and the result of my thesis "Openness and awareness--a phenomenological study of music teaching and learning interaction", which studies music teachers in Swedish ordinary schools teaching pupils aged from 10 to 12. The aim of the study was to describe, analyse and try…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Foreign Countries, Music Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Ruddock, Graham; Sainsbury, Marian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
This study looks at the curricula for mathematics, science and literacy, comparing England's curricula with those of other countries based on performance in international comparative surveys. The main objective was to answer the question: How does the content of the Primary Curriculum in England at Key stage 2 compare in literacy, math and science…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Science Curriculum
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Walberg, Herbert J.; And Others – British Educational Research Journal, 1986
Reports a re-analysis of mathematics achievement data on 28,274 elementary students in twelve countries. Results corroborate recent studies of productive factors in academic learning. Among directly alterable variables, the amount and quality of instruction, including homework, most strongly influence achievement. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement
Western European Education, 1981
Describes the Situation in the Primary School (SIPRI) project, a study of the purpose of pedagogy and the role of primary schools in Sweden. The subprojects and the role of the contact schools that will serve as a field of observation and experimentation are summarized. Brief critical comments are included. (SR)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Research Projects
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