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Anette Forssten Seiser; Ingela Portfelt – Educational Action Research, 2024
The aim of this study is to explore what happened -- and why -- in a collaboration between ourselves as researchers and school leaders from two different schools in Sweden. The theory of practice architectures is used to frame the study. The goal of the collaboration was to enhance the scientific foundation of school practices, which motivated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Cooperation, Leadership, Administrators
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Karin Rönnerman; Anette Olin – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article investigates how knowledge, competence and actions develop among teachers enrolled in a Master's degree programme in action research who have an interest in changing practices in the schools in which they teach. We draw upon the insights of seven teachers who completed the programme (part-time over four years) to examine how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Professional Development, Educational Experience
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Jaana Nehez – Educational Action Research, 2024
This article presents an action research project conducted in a Swedish compulsory school. In the project the participants explored ways of identifying actions to improve in the practices of a professional learning community in order to develop teaching. This is important for participants in such communities, since the outcome of developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Participatory Research, Participant Observation
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Olin, Anette; Pörn, Michaela – Educational Action Research, 2023
To what extent can teachers' involvement in knowledge-producing activities be enhanced through collaboration with researchers? This article reports on two teacher-researcher collaborative didactic development projects in Sweden and Finland. By using the theory of practice architectures, the aim is to explore how teachers' knowledge contribution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Researchers, Educational Cooperation
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Anne Harju – Educational Action Research, 2023
This article explores the conditions required for preschool managers to support change through research aimed at developing educational practice. It examines factors that enable and constrain support of change and the arrangements that can be identified in relation to these factors. The results suggest that arrangements that support a more…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Administration, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
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Ulrika Bergmark; Ann-Charlotte Dahlbäck; Anna-Karin Hagström; Sara Viklund – Educational Action Research, 2024
Mentoring is a central aspect of action research processes and raises ethical issues concerning roles and responsibilities, particularly when teachers and researchers collaborate. The purpose of the study is to explore mentoring and the roles of mentors in action research from an ethical stance. The theoretical basis is the philosophy of care…
Descriptors: Mentors, Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship, Action Research
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Haj-Bolouri, Amir; Master Östlund, Christian; Rossi, Matti; Svensson, Lars – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: Although there is a large body of literature available on the foundations of workplace learning (WPL), little is known about designated research methods that systematically combine intervention, design and learning at work. The purpose of this study is to propose action design research as an alternative method for organizing WPL in…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Electronic Learning, Action Research, Learning Activities
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Anna Fabri; Anna Jobér – Educational Action Research, 2024
This paper reports on a two-year project focusing on health communicators working with refugees in Sweden. By employing participatory action research and the theory of practice architectures, the study examines a health information practice for newly arrived refugees and highlights its potentials and constraints. The joint meetings that occurred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Johannesson, Peter – Educational Action Research, 2022
This paper explores professional learning as teachers engage in action research to improve their practices. Despite many contributions on professional learning communities and their effects on school improvement, there is less research on how they are developed and how teachers learn collectively. Using a social theory of learning, three…
Descriptors: Action Research, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Bergmark, Ulrika – Professional Development in Education, 2023
A prominent phenomenon in education in Europe and internationally is the demand for research-based education, which is also the case in Sweden, the context of this study. Therefore, greater academic demands have been placed on teachers, which can present a distinctive challenge for teachers who were educated when teacher education prioritised…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice
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Ljusberg, Anna-Lena – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The governing document of the Swedish SAEC has shifted to become more focused on teaching and learning. The updated curriculum (SNAE, 2011) added new requirements of the educational programme through stating that activities should be 'based on the pupils' needs, interests and initiative' (SNAE, 2011, p. 23). The aim of this study is to explore how…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Childrens Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Olin, Anette; Almqvist, Jonas; Hamza, Karim – Educational Action Research, 2023
Research is needed to explain in more depth what happens and why in teacher-researcher collaboration. Previous research on collaboration points out issues such as asymmetric power relations and cultural differences between professions that can potentially cause problems. This paper examines a Swedish action research project in which teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Collaboration
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Samuelson, Sarah; Svensson, Ann; Svenningsson, Irene; Pennbrant, Sandra – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: To meet future healthcare needs, primary care is undergoing a transformation in which innovations and new ways of working play an important role. However, successful innovations depend on joint learning and rewarding collaborations between healthcare and other stakeholders. This study aims to explore how learning develops when…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Cooperative Learning, Innovation, Laboratories
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Jaana Nehez – Educational Action Research, 2024
This article nuances an ongoing discussion among researchers about external researchers in emancipatory action research in the educational field. It examines opportunities and challenges for emancipatory action research for participants in top-down and bottom-up initiated action research projects with external researchers. An analysis based on…
Descriptors: Researchers, Action Research, Research Methodology, College School Cooperation
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Seiser, Anette Forssten – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2021
There seems to be an assumption that an enhanced scientific foundation, in form of an application of research results, leads to better quality in schools and also to better student outcomes. The objective in this article is to explore how this demand can emerge in an action research project as well as in school principals' daily life. This is done…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Action Research, Theory Practice Relationship
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