Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 6 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 20 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 31 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Öqvist, Anna | 3 |
Hirsh, Åsa | 2 |
Liljenberg, Mette | 2 |
Malmström, Malin | 2 |
Olin, Anette | 2 |
Rönnerman, Karin | 2 |
Ahlberg, Ann | 1 |
Anette Olin Almqvist | 1 |
Berglund, Anders | 1 |
Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela | 1 |
Beycioglu, Kadir, Ed. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 26 |
Reports - Research | 25 |
Books | 3 |
Collected Works - General | 3 |
Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Historical Materials | 1 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Veronica Sülau; Jaana Nehez; Anette Olin Almqvist – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teachers' professional learning is closely connected to and dependent on different leading practices. Teachers professional learning is regarded as a key factor in successful school development, and development leaders at different levels are assigned to provide for and support such learning. However, the connection between leading and learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Leadership Styles, Teacher Leadership, Foreign Countries
Nehez, Jaana; Sülau, Veronica; Olin, Anette – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
Research shows that leadership is crucial for professional learning, often highlighting principals' "or" middle leaders' leading practices. However, in leading, professions with differing roles work together. With a decentring perspective on leadership, we shift the focus from the individual principal or middle leader to joint leading…
Descriptors: Principals, Middle Management, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Frida Grimm – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teacher leaders are increasingly leading learning conversations in professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools in several parts of the world today, but there is little empirical knowledge of teacher leadership in PLC conversations. Thus, this article aims to enhance such knowledge, particularly the development of teacher leadership in PLC…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Mifsud, Denise, Ed.; Day, Stephen P., Ed. – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2023
This edited book provides a critical re-reading of the concept of teacher education, in addition to a re-thinking of the sole focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE), with implications for education policy, theory, and practice. This book presents new investigations that explore the concept of teacher education from ITE to retirement and how this…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Career Development, Educational Practices, Policy Formation
Grimm, Frida – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
International research has highlighted teacher leadership as a means to improve teaching and learning by distributing instructional (learning-centered) leadership to teacher leaders. Simultaneously, there has been an increase and alteration of teacher leaders in schools. One example is the 'first teacher' position in Sweden implemented in 2013.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Nordberg, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate in what ways children's language development could be supported from the staff at Swedish preschools in the 'Tambour situation' (the transition time at the preschool's reception area). The support of Physical Language Learning Environment and Language Learning Interactions were observed for children (1-5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Hrastinski, Stefan; Ekman Rising, Marianne – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
Many studies have focused on professional development within schools, while this article focuses on ICT (information and communications technology) professional development across schools. The aim of this article is to explore how the encouragement of communities and networks might contribute to ICT professional development across schools in close…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technological Literacy, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies
Erlandson, Peter; Karlsson, Mikael. R. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
In this study, the implementation of the Swedish "first teacher reform", where especially skilled teachers get an opportunity to advance in their careers, is examined. The scene is an upper secondary school, Baxter High, in the southwest of Sweden. In this particular school, a new system with first teachers replaces an old system of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Administrative Policy
Norqvist, Lars; Ärlestig, Helene – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how leaders within a school district system understand their own and others' leadership positions from the perspectives of systems thinking and systems thinking skills. Design/methodology/approach: The findings are based on interviews with superintendents, area managers (deputy superintendents),…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership, School Administration, School Districts
Leffler, Eva – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Entrepreneurship in school is a widespread issue within the school system and it is therefore important to problematise teachers and their role when entrepreneurship is emphasized in their school practice. The teachers in this study, from the secondary and upper secondary levels, were all participating in a Swedish three-year school improvement…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Implementation, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Hirsh, Åsa; Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela – School Leadership & Management, 2019
This longitudinal study aims to create in-depth knowledge about the phenomena of middle-leadership and career in school by identifying (1) driving forces for seeking and maintaining middle-leading positions, (2) opportunities and difficulties in maintaining the middle-leading role over time, and (3) underlying thoughts of career disclosed in the…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Career Development, Teacher Leadership, Foreign Countries
Hirsh, Åsa; Segolsson, Mikael – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
The current study reported here is one within a research project aimed at the identification of enabling and constraining factors in a two-year school-development project at a large secondary school in Sweden, where all teaching staff were involved in improving the quality of instruction through collaborative analyses. In this project a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Quality
Öqvist, Anna; Högström, Per – Journal of Technology Education, 2018
In the Swedish preschool curriculum, technology education is emphasized as one of the most significant pedagogical areas. Particularly, the teacher's role is emphasized: It is the preschool teacher's responsibility to stimulate and challenge children's interest in science and technology. Unfortunately, prior research indicates that preschool…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy
Håkansson, Jan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
With a basis in conclusions from a comparative meta-synthesis of teaching and learning, the question of structured and teacher-led teaching in Swedish comprehensive schools is discussed and analysed. The aim is to illustrate the development of results and changes in teaching patterns in Swedish comprehensive schools in relation to new regulations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods
Öqvist, Anna; Malmström, Malin – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Students' educational motivation is significant for performance and achieving learning, but little is known about what fuels such motivation. Educational motivation is regarded as the drive and inner state that energise educational activities, facilitate learning and channel behaviour towards achieving educational goals. Educational motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Teacher Leadership