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Sandberg, Helena; Sundin, Ebba; Sjöberg, Ulrika – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2022
This colloquium shares experiences from doing ethnographic fieldwork with young children and the challenges that followed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project DIGIKIDS Sweden has its focus on very young children (birth to three years) and their engagement with digital media technologies in their homes. The pandemic put the project on hold,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Field Studies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kristin Persson; Maria Andrée; Cecilia Caiman – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
Fieldwork in ecology education does things. By employing Donna Haraway's concept "becoming-with companion species" and Cathrine Hasse's "emotional collectives" to explore fieldwork practice on a bog in Sweden, a piece of the doings will be told. The aim of this study is to explore how ecology fieldwork affords emotional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Friberg, Torbjörn – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This article is a response to the methodological problems I experienced during fieldwork. It follows that the article is an experiment of creating alternative possibilities for thinking about ethnocentrism as a phenomenon in transformation in a contemporary, innovative, higher educational setting. Throughout the article, I argue for the…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Ethnography, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Abraham, Getahun Yacob; von Brömssen, Kerstin – Education Inquiry, 2018
Internationalisation of higher education and teacher education has been a key issue since the 1990s and many universities still attempt to increase student mobility ever since. Much research has been done on the topic of internationalisation and higher education, including teacher education trying to show how a certain programme impacts on…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Reflection, Field Studies, Foreign Countries
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Thornberg, Robert – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Research on school bullying has its roots in the field of developmental and educational psychology, and appeals to the need for a theoretical and methodological widening in order to grasp its ambiguity and complexity. The article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in which 144 pupils and seven teachers participated from seven school classes in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bullying, Developmental Psychology
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Tolgfors, Björn – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Assessment "for" learning (AfL) is now marketed across the Western world as a key to an improved goal attainment in most school subjects. The concept has also attracted increased interest in the international research field of physical education (PE) in recent years. According to (Chan, K., P. J. Hay, and R. Tinning. 2011.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Formative Evaluation, Educational Theories, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lager, Karin – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article explores the recontextualisation of systematic quality development work (Sqdw) in a leisure-time centre. Two teachers' processes of planning, organisation, documentation and evaluation were investigated, the aim being to explore the recontextualisation of Sqdw in practice. The study is thus a case study of these teachers' practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Leisure Education, Recreational Facilities
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Andersson, Klas – Environmental Education Research, 2017
There is currently a well-established belief among politicians, scholars and university representatives that educational systems can produce positive attitudes towards sustainable development (SD) among citizens. This article investigates whether Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in teacher education has effects on pre-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Puskás, Tünde – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the strategies monolingual teachers use to scaffold meaning and encourage and enhance verbal communication with emergent bilingual children in a Swedish mainstream preschool. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool group in which seven of twelve children spoke Swedish as their second, additional language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Henning Loeb, Ingrid – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article investigates the cooperation of a teaching team in Swedish upper secondary education over a period of five years. The data collection builds on field studies and partly on a collaborative research approach. Three areas of cooperation have been identified: collaboration among the staff; interactions between the staff and the students;…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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Samuelsson, Marcus – Ethnography and Education, 2013
This study examined the extent to which students fully embrace sloyd activities. Sloyd is a form of adventurous education in Sweden where school students take more control of the content and methods of learning as part of their weekly education. Hands on activities are often part of the adventure and it sometimes takes place outdoors. The study…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Active Learning
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Niklasson, Laila; Sandberg, Anette – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2012
The aim of this article is to describe how field studies can be useful in teacher education. While participating in a specialty area called "Play, learning and development," student teachers collected data about their own and young children's experience and perception of the outdoor environment. They observed, carried out interviews from…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Outdoor Education, Field Studies
Pedersen, Helena – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2011
This article seeks to contribute to the idea of "posthumanist education" by unfolding an educational situation where an assemblage of two humans and 33 former battery hens is gathered to carry out a so-called cognitive bias experiment for two days. A Deleuzian repertoire is set in motion to configure the dynamics of hens intervening in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Educational Principles, Critical Theory
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Rooth, Dan-Olof – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This study presents evidence of differential treatment in the hiring of obese individuals in the Swedish labor market. Fictitious applications were sent to real job openings. The applications were sent in pairs, where one facial photo of an otherwise identical applicant was manipulated to show the individual as obese. Applications sent with the…
Descriptors: Obesity, Females, Personnel Selection, Labor Market
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Steen, Odd Inge – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
Little research has been done on instructing student teachers by means of field studies in developing countries. Herein, I argue that sending geography students on such expeditions provides them with valuable perspectives, connections and improved knowledge, especially if they experience personal involvement and participation in addition to…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Teachers, Field Studies, Foreign Countries
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