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Direct linkStenlund, Tova – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) refers to a process where adults' prior learning, formal as well as informal, is assessed and acknowledged. In the first section of this paper, APL and current conceptions of validity in assessments and its evaluation are presented. It is argued that participants in the assessment are an important source of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Validity, Prior Learning, Evaluation
Linton, Ann-Charlotte; Germundsson, Per; Heimann, Mikael; Danermark, Berth – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2013
While progress has been made for including students with disability into mainstream schools, trends point to problems for students with Asperger syndrome (AS) diagnosis who have a propensity to dropping out of school. Teachers' perceptions and understanding of AS will affect expectations and the attainment of educational targets. Thus, to avoid…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Attitudes
Villanen, Heli – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
Sustainable development includes controversial values and complex issues such as energy consumption contra natural resources. This paper discusses a school project involving teachers from pre-schools to upper secondary schools in Sweden. The project aimed to support the teaching of energy issues and more generally sustainable development. During…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Reflection, Teacher Attitudes, Energy Education
Download full textBoström, Lena; Hallin, Karin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The teaching profession has been continually challenged to provide evidence of the effectiveness of teaching and learning methods. Teacher education, as well as nursing education, is currently undergoing reforms in Sweden. At the university where the research was conducted, teaching and nursing programs are two priority educational programs and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Nursing Education, Productivity, Foreign Countries
Karlsson Lohmander, Maelis – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
Professional experience in preschool settings comprises an important part of the education of preschool teachers. During their placements, students are expected to link theory to practice, to integrate university-based knowledge with workplace-based knowledge and skills essential for their future profession. They often refer to a perceived gap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Preschool Curriculum
Sjöberg, Lena – Education Inquiry, 2014
In this article Foucault's theoretical concept of governmentality is used to scrutinise the ways in which the ideal pupil is constructed, governed and positioned in and through teacher training in Sweden. The analysis focuses on the construction of subject positions as well as governing technologies and techniques operating in the shaping of the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teacher Education, Governance, Entrepreneurship
Edwards Groves, Christine; Ronnerman, Karin – Professional Development in Education, 2013
In this paper we show how practices of professional learning and practices of leading can be understood as related in ecologies of practices. We will present findings from an international empirical research project that directs us to the connectivity between professional learning and leading practices that emerged as "adventitious",…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Practices, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership
Bostrom, Lena – Quality of Higher Education, 2011
The teaching profession has been continually challenged to provide evidence of the effectiveness of teaching and learning methods. The teacher education systems are currently undergoing reforms in Sweden. Hence, it is importance for educational institutions to be aware of the different ways that their student teachers learn and it is importance…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Cognitive Style, Music Education, Foreign Countries
Eriksson, Anita – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
The use of mentoring within teacher education has become more common in recent years, however, there still seems to be a lack of research about formal group mentorship models as a pedagogical process. In my study, I presented knowledge about how a formal group mentorship model used during a teacher education program at a Swedish university has…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Student Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
Beach, Dennis; Player-Koro, Catarina – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
Two related ethnographic research projects on mathematics teacher education in Sweden are presented in this paper. They represent a response to recent policy developments that reaffirm the value of authoritative subject studies content as the central and most important component in the professional knowledge base of would-be teachers and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Scientific Research, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Owens, Kay; Paraides, Patricia; Nutti, Ylva Jannok; Johansson, Gunilla; Bennet, Maria; Doolan, Pat; Peckham, Ray; Hill, John; Doolan, Frank; O'Sullivan, Dominic; Murray, Libbey; Logan, Patricia; McNair, Melissa; Sunnari, Vappu; Murray, Beatrice; Miller, Alissa; Nolan, John; Simpson, Alca; Ohrin, Christine; Doolan, Terry; Doolan, Michelle; Taylor, Paul – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2011
As a result of a number of government reports, there have been numerous systemic changes in Indigenous education in Australia revolving around the importance of partnerships with the community. A forum with our local Dubbo community established the importance of working together and developed a model which placed the child in an ecological…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Beach, Dennis – Education Inquiry, 2011
Certain common elements can be identified regarding teacher education development in advanced knowledge-based economies. One of these is the attempt, up until relatively recently, to develop a solid foundation of scientific professional knowledge for what Basil Bernstein called the teacher education "Trivium": roughly speaking,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Research, Teacher Competencies
Player-Koro, Catarina – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This article draws from ethnographic data produced inside mathematics teacher education in Sweden. It explores and makes visible the ongoing process of education during workshops in information and communication technology (ICT) laboratory contexts in which student teachers were working with spreadsheet applications on the computer. The main…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Ethnography, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Education
Skåreus, Eva – Education Inquiry, 2012
Reflecting on the implementation of a pre-study may be decisive for the design of a following main study. This text consists of a reflective process where the researcher's different choices are examined and problematised. The reflections take place within the framework of a pre-study and in relation to the aim of that study. They also take place…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Resistance (Psychology), Memory, Writing Processes
Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Educational Research, 2011
Background: Historically, the meaning of teacher competence has changed and is continuously being re-constructed along with changes in society as well as with shifting values and intentions in preschool guidelines and curricula. Over the past decade, Swedish preschool has been incorporated as a part of the educational system, and has received its…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, National Curriculum, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
