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Direct linkKnutsen, Ketil; Knutsen, Ingunn – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
This article discusses historical competence as reading and understanding use-of-history as it is expressed in different texts. Students need to develop competence in the use-of-history in order to approach the diversity and complexity of uses of history in our time. The use-of-history is also an aim in the curricula of Nordic countries. This…
Descriptors: History, Competence, History Instruction, Curriculum Design
Bergdahl, Lovisa; Langmann, Elisabet – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2017
In a time of cultural pluralism and legitimation crisis (Habermas), there is an increasing uncertainty among teachers in Sweden about with what right they are fostering other people's children. What does it mean to teach "common values" to the coming generation? How do teachers find legitimacy and authority for this endeavour, not as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Role of Education, Cultural Pluralism
Gustafsson, Kristina; Fioretos, Ingrid; Norstrom, Eva – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This article analyzes the migration experiences of thirteen separated minors who arrived in Sweden between 1943 and 2008. Using the framework of "dislocation" and the "liberated self," this chapter shows that the experiences of separated minors are shaped in the intersection between contexts and conditions of transnational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Children, Empowerment
Aldenmyr, Sara Irisdotter – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
Educational philosophers and sociologists have pointed out the potential risks of an educational trend of therapy, which seems to have connotations with Western macro-discourses of individualisation, popularised psychology and privatisation of the public room. The overall purpose of this article is to discuss potential risks and possibilities…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Ethics, Therapy, Educational Philosophy
Holmgren, Mikael; Johansson, Olof; Nihlfors, Elisabet; Skott, Pia – Journal of School Public Relations, 2012
Sweden has recently seen three major political attempts to empower parents through national regulations--the transferal of authority from the state to district school boards, the heavy promotion of independent schools, and the introduction of local school boards at municipality schools. This article provides an overview of these developments by…
Descriptors: Democracy, Governance, Foreign Countries, Empowerment
Colley, Helen – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Policy-makers in the UK and Europe have become concerned with the successful management of transitions in learning as a means of increasing the competitiveness of their economies. Transitions relating to informal as well as formal learning have also been an important focus for the sociology of education. In this paper, I review alternative ways in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Feminism, Females
