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Gyberg, Fanny; Svensson, Ylva; Wängqvist, Maria; Syed, Moin – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Experiences of discrimination and links to well-being have been examined extensively, but several gaps remain. The current study addresses four of those gaps by (1) examining both aggregated and source-specific forms of discrimination, (2) comparing the experiences of minority and majority group members, (3) expanding the range of outcomes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Discrimination, Psychological Patterns, Well Being
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Andersson, Sara; Adams Lyngbäck, Liz – Deafness & Education International, 2022
Since the late 1990s, the majority of D/deaf students enter schooling in a mainstream setting. Little has been written about their experiences and how a change in school settings impacts their learning and social identity. In this study, semi-structured interviews have been conducted with nine students, and the results show that their time in a…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Educational Environment
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Schmidt, Catarina – Ethnography and Education, 2020
This paper draws on a longitudinal ethnography of nine children's use of texts in and out of school in a multilingual setting in Sweden. The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the ways in which four out of these nine children are able to represent their literacies in school and in that way also represent their experiences and identities.…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Democracy, Power Structure, Multilingualism
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Löfgren, Ragnhild; Löfgren, Håkan; Lindberg, Viveca – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
The starting point for this article is changes in the Swedish assessment system which stated that pupils are to receive grade reports in school year 6 (12-13 years old) during the academic year 2012-2013. Since the 1970s, compulsory school pupils have received their first grade reports in grade 7 and/or 8. The issue here is to present pupils'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Chuang, Susan S.; Lamb, Michael E.; Hwang, C. Philip – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
We investigated the development of ego-control (EC) and ego-resiliency (ER) over a 13-year period in a cohort of Swedish children first assessed at 2 years of age. Children became more ego-controlled over time although individual differences in EC remained stable. Children's levels of resiliency increased from 2 to 3 years of age and then declined…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Self Concept, Personality, Individual Differences
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Ollfors, Marianne; Andersson, Sven Ingmar – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
The aim of this study was to investigate self-theories (theories of intelligence, confidence in one's intelligence, internal attribution of failure, academic self-efficacy), specific control, and experiencing of stress by means of a questionnaire for 915 Swedish high school students. Factor analysis yielded 6 stress domains (Workload, Psychosocial…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physical Environment, Self Efficacy, Intelligence