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Matilda Lindberg; Torun Mattsson – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Introduction: Research has indicated that Physical Education (PE) is often characterized by teacher-centred teaching (e.g. Byra 2006; Tinning 2010), where the pupils follow instruction and perform pre-established movements (Karlefors and Larsson 2018). Pupils are expected to listen, do as they are told, and follow rules (Fitzpatrick and Russell…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Preadolescents, Student Centered Learning
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Maarit Jaakkola; Linda Sternö; Elias Fryk – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
This article investigates the role of space in media and information literacy (MIL), especially when supporting learners' production skills. The MIL framework is to a great extent focused on deconstruction of messages in a private position of reception, while the theoretical, didactic and ethical components of the production pedagogy are less…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Disadvantaged, Power Structure
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Daniel Mateos-Moreno; Ernst Erlanson – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
'Simultaneous Learning' (SL) is a pedagogical approach aimed at fostering enjoyable and proactive music teaching. Developed by the British educationalist Paul Harris, SL has been taught worldwide for the past two decades but has not yet been investigated by a scholarly publication. We thus focused our research on the first usage of SL in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Music Education, Foreign Countries
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Behtoui, Alireza – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
The aim of this paper is to investigate the 'equalising effect of schools' in general and two concrete interventions that have been carried out recently in Sweden in particular. The first of these interventions is the closing down of schools in deprived neighbourhoods and moving pupils to other schools. The second is 'empowerment'--i.e., creating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Empowerment, Disadvantaged, Socioeconomic Background
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Moen, Kjersti Mordal; Westlie, Knut; Gerdin, Göran; Smith, Wayne; Linnér, Susanne; Philpot, Rod; Schenker, Katarina; Larsson, Lena – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
The Health and Physical Education (HPE) profession has increasingly advocated for caring teacher-student relationships. In this paper, we draw on data from an international research project called 'EDUHEALTH' [Education for Equitable Health Outcomes -- The Promise of School Health and Physical Education] to explore caring teaching and the…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Justice, Inclusion
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Andrée, Maria; Hansson, Lena – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
In science education, critical discussions on the engagement of industrial actors in STEM education are scarce. In this study, we take the perspective that industrial STEM education initiatives are an arena for governing STEM education. The aim is to contribute to a critical discussion on the involvement of industrial actors in STEM education by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Science Education, Industry
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Rantala, Anna; Heikkilä, Mia – Education 3-13, 2020
Social interaction is one of the many things what preschool life is about, and how social life is constituted is of importance to understand. In early childhood education settings, children are guided and fostered by teachers and by each other in different directions. The overall aim of the article is to make a contribution to a deeper…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Discipline, Power Structure
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Bergmark, Ulrika; Kostenius, Catrine – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This paper focuses on school situations students experienced as meaningful and how these experiences can guide educational improvement. Participants included 15 students in grade 3 from a Swedish school. In this qualitative study, the data consisted of drawings, multimodal productions, interviews, and field notes. The analysis resulted in four…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Foreign Countries, Student Empowerment, Educational Improvement
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Sultan, Ulrika Napoleon; Axell, Cecilia; Hallström, Jonas – Design and Technology Education, 2020
Variance in interest and engagement by gender is a complex and long-standing research agenda in the field of technology education. Studies report that girls are more reluctant to participate in technology education, less interested in the subject and more negative towards technology than boys. It is argued that specific attitudes and roles hinder…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Preadolescents, Elementary School Students, Technology Education
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Wallengren Lynch, Michael – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
This paper offers an insight into the use of poster presentations as a means of helping students prepare and develop their arguments for their final project work to be submitted for assessment. The five students, all from a Masters in Social Work course in Gothenburg, Sweden participated in an international conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
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Häggström, Margaretha; Schmidt, Catarina – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article advocates a holistic approach to education concerning literacy and ecological literacy development and builds on data from two different case studies in compulsory school classes in Sweden. The study is built on action-based research and the data material was analysed through directed qualitative content analysis. We argue that place…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Johnson, Kayla M. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2018
This paper uses photo-cued interviewing and grounded theory approaches to understand student empowerment resulting from study abroad programs. Using data from 62 students who traveled to 9 countries on several different programs, this paper highlights what student empowerment as an outcome of study abroad can look like and how student empowerment…
Descriptors: Photography, Cues, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes
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Tolgfors, Bjorn; Öhman, Marie – European Physical Education Review, 2016
This article deals with the implications of assessment for learning (AfL) in upper secondary physical education and health (PEH). Inspired by the research field that emanates from the concept of governmentality, the study is concerned with how AfL guides teachers' and students' actions in certain directions. Based on teachers' descriptions of how…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Formative Evaluation, Governance
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Norén, Eva – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
This paper draws on data from a first grade multilingual mathematics classroom in Sweden. I explore how students' agency is pronounced in the classroom that actually can be a site where mathematics reform-oriented pedagogy thrives and how the emphasis on language support in such classrooms can support reform-oriented pedagogy. I argue that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Multilingualism, Elementary School Mathematics
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Almqvist, Anna-Lena; Almqvist, Lena – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Children's experiences of empowerment in relation to preschool peers and in child-adult interactions were studied, involving 25 four- to six-year-olds from four Swedish preschools. Group interviews using puppets comprised pre-constructed scenarios to examine preschools' activities. Children took photos of indoor and outdoor preschool environments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Student Empowerment, Student Experience
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