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Garvis, Susanne; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Mellgren, Elisabeth – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Quality in early childhood education is an important topic in many countries. Research suggests that high-quality preschool provides many long-term benefits for young children and society. How to measure early childhood quality however can be problematic. One approach has been the use of the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Donkor, Felix Kwabena; Mazumder, Ram Krishna; Hosseinzadeh, Saeed; Roy, Someshwar – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
Education holds promise as a vehicle for sustainable global development and human capacity development, as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. International education has become a prominent feature in contemporary times on the educational landscape as students become increasingly mobile in pursuit of their…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Objectives, International Organizations, Capacity Building
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Bergh, Andreas – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This article analyses a specific part of the actions taken to improve the quality of Swedish education, namely the expectations formulated in national policy documents for the quality work that local authorities, schools and teachers are supposed to undertake. For the empirical analysis of how these expectations have changed over the last two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Elken, Mari; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Stensaker, Bjørn – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Global university rankings currently attract considerable attention, and it is often assumed that such rankings may cause universities to prioritize activities and outcomes that will have a positive effect in their ranking position. A possible consequence of this could be the spread of a particular model of an "ideal" university. This…
Descriptors: Reputation, Research Universities, Models, Interviews
Burroughs, Nathan; Gardner, Jacqueline; Lee, Youngjun; Guo, Siwen; Touitou, Israel; Jansen, Kimberly; Schmidt, William – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's (IEA) mission is to enhance knowledge about education systems worldwide, and to provide high-quality data that will support education reform and lead to better teaching and learning in schools. In pursuit of this aim, it conducts, and reports on, major studies of student…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Dromey, Joe – Learning and Work Institute, 2020
This report explores the links between trade unions and workplace training, and the potential benefits of social partnership in the skills system. The UK is relatively unusual in having no formal role for trade unions in the training system. In most advanced economies, trade unions and employers work alongside government in shaping the skills…
Descriptors: Unions, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
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Engström, Henrik – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
This paper presents an effort to create a unified model for conducting and assessing undergraduate dissertations, shared by all disciplines involved in computer game development at a Swedish university. Computer game development includes technology-oriented disciplines as well as disciplines with aesthetical traditions. The challenge has been to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
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Brodin, J.; Hollerer, L.; Renblad, K.; Stancheva-Popkostadinova, V. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The aim of this article is to highlight the concept "quality" with a special focus on preschool teachers' understanding and compare what preschool teachers in Austria, Bulgaria and Sweden regard as quality. Although quality is at high degree a subjective concept, some aspects are regarded decisive for good quality. A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Educational Quality, Comparative Analysis
Boström, Lena; Augustsson, Gunnar – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse how teachers perceive the internal learning environment at Swedish leisure-time centres and set it in relation to steering documents. The empirical data is based on a comprehensive web-survey of 4,043 leisure-time teachers in Sweden. The methodological approach is a qualitative directed content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment, After School Programs
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Lundqvist, Eva; Sund, Per – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
There is an ongoing discussion about what content that should be taught in science education and there are different views among teachers about what represent good science content. However, teachers are not isolated individuals making their own interpretations, but are part of institutionalised systems building on patterns in the selection of…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Science Education
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Zackariasson, Maria; Magnusson, Jenny – Cogent Education, 2020
In this article, we will discuss how circumstances and requirements on a micro-level may be of relevance for the conditions for international student mobility within higher education. This will be done through examining similarities and differences in the organization of degree project courses at universities in Russia and Sweden, and how…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Student Mobility
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Hjalmarsson, Maria; Löfdahl Hultman, Annica; Warin, Jo – Education Inquiry, 2017
This article aims to gain knowledge on how gender and profession are accounted for and expressed in leisure-time teachers' (LtTs) work in Sweden, with a specific focus on the caring aspects of the profession. Our results show that LtTs take up various positions in navigating between aspects connected to managerialism and external auditing as well…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Leisure Time, Caring, Trust (Psychology)
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Johansson, Ellen; Holmin, Tobias E.; Johansson, Bengt R.; Braide, Magnus – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2018
Peer-assisted learning has gained momentum in a variety of disciplines, including medical education. In Gothenburg, Sweden, medical students who have finished their compulsory anatomy courses have the option of working as teaching assistants (TAs). Teaching assistants provide small group teaching sessions as a complement to lectures given by…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Medical Education
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Lager, Karin – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article explores the recontextualisation of systematic quality development work (Sqdw) in a leisure-time centre. Two teachers' processes of planning, organisation, documentation and evaluation were investigated, the aim being to explore the recontextualisation of Sqdw in practice. The study is thus a case study of these teachers' practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Leisure Education, Recreational Facilities
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