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Zofia Hammerin; Disa Bergnehr; Goran Basic – Cogent Education, 2023
This study explores the discourse about health promotion and the role of the teacher in Swedish upper secondary schools. The material consists of student health plans from schools and local authorities that were analysed using discourse analysis. The results show that health promotion is largely an empty or floating signifier. The teacher is…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Role
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Bubikova-Moan, Jarmila; Naess Hjetland, Hanne; Wollscheid, Sabine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
In recent years, play-based learning (PBL) has attracted attention, debate and controversy across different national contexts. There is no definitional consensus which may have undesirable consequences for enacting its potential in professional practice. The aim of our study was to synthesize international research on ECE practitioners' views on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Teaching Methods
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Björk, Kaisa; Danielsson, Eva; Basic, Goran – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2019
In 2015, approximately 70,000 children and young people immigrated to Sweden, including 35,000 unaccompanied minors who arrived without any legal guardian. The huge influx of young people has been a challenge for the Swedish school system. Newly arrived immigrant students are a diverse group, and their educational backgrounds vary. Those actively…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Professional Identity, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Role
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Salas, Alexandra – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016
This article provides a literature review of the research concerning the role of faculty perspectives about instructional technology. Learning management systems, massive open online courses (MOOCs), cloud-based multimedia applications, and mobile apps represent the tools and the language of academia in the 21st century. Research examined…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Technology, Classroom Techniques, Integrated Learning Systems
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Bladh, Stephan; Heimonen, Marja – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
In this paper, the authors discuss the influence of democracy and law on music education in Sweden and Finland, and the potential for music education as training in democracy. The latter consideration can be instructive regardless of the nation, or its laws and paradigms of music education. The theoretical background is based on Jurgen Habermas'…
Descriptors: Music Education, Democratic Values, Educational Legislation, Democracy
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Hanse, Mona-Britt, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1983
"Analysis of Teacher-Directed Experimentation" (ALF) is a project currently underway in Sweden. In Swedish terminology, a distinction is made between central, regional, and local educational development work; these terms indicate the level within the school system at which a particular kind of development work is conducted.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Altbach, Philip G. – 1980
Universities around the world have changed dramatically in the period since World War II. Although the basic concerns of higher education (teaching, research, and service) have remained unchanged, the reality of expanded numbers and increased responsibility in a number of areas has placed immense pressure on universities. Seven goals essential to…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Role
Premfors, Rune – 1979
Major public policies for institutional governance in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom over the past two decades are reviewed, and factors that may account for differences in policy developments in the three countries are considered. In France and (although only recently) in Sweden, politics have aimed at increasing institutional autonomy in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Governing Councils, Comparative Education