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Direct linkEva Hammar Chiriac; Camilla Forsberg; Robert Thornberg – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Creating and sustaining a positive school climate is not done in isolation but requires continuous ongoing work by several people within the school, and one of the most important actors are the teachers. In order to fulfil this very important task, the teachers need to collaborate with colleagues at school in an organized manner. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Attitudes, Compulsory Education, Teacher Collaboration
Dannefjord, Per; Persson, Magnus; Bertilsson, Emil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examines job-changing patterns of secondary school teachers in a segregated local school market in Sweden. In an initial step, we use information on pupils' resources to hierarchically group schools in four groups, where schools with similar pupil bases are sorted together. By interviewing 29 teachers, the conclusion is that when…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Eva Hammar Chiriac; Camilla Forsberg; Robert Thornberg – Cogent Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore and analyse teachers' perspectives on factors influencing the school climate, to better understand teachers' everyday efforts in influencing the school climate, including obstacles they might experience. Bronfenbrenner's social-ecological theory was utilized as the overarching theoretical perspective. Data were…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Influences, Barriers
Ismayilova, Khayala; Bolander Laksov, Klara – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore university teachers' perceptions of creative teaching and other factors that may influence academics' efforts to teach creatively in higher education in Sweden. A qualitative case study was employed, interviewing 14 university teachers in three focus group interviews. The results show that the university…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, College Instruction, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes
Frelin, Anneli; Grannäs, Jan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Teaching in new kinds of learning environments could prove challenging, and a successful transition is facilitated by user involvement. This article reports results from the planning and rebuilding phase of a multi-zone flexible learning environment. On two occasions, one virtual and one on-site walk-through, two groups of secondary school…
Descriptors: Affordances, Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Ester Catucci; Benita Berg; Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines five preschool teachers' narratives about using the outdoor environment as a pedagogical resource for children's play, learning and experiences in Swedish preschools. Participants were asked to reflect on both opportunities and challenges in outdoor play and learning. The present study responds to the need for further research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschools
Krantz, Joakim; Fritzén, Lena – Journal of Educational Change, 2022
We analyse changes in the collective identity that Sweden's largest labour union for teachers had during the period 1990-2017. The study is based on theory about how collective identity is constructed in adaptation and resistance to external categorical dimensions and internal group identification. We identify shifts in relation to how the union…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes
Birgitta Persdotter; Evelina Landstedt; Karin Hellfeldt – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Teachers in preschools and schools have a central role in detecting children at risk of maltreatment. The aim of this study was to provide a longitudinal understanding of teachers' temporary and prolonged concerns for children's home situations (CCHS), from preschool (age 3-5 years) to year 1-3 of elementary school (age 8-10 years). Teacher- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Lindqvist, Henrik; Weurlander, Maria; Barman, Linda; Wernerson, Annika; Thornberg, Robert – Educational Research, 2023
Background: For prospective teachers, the school-based learning component of their teacher education programme is a crucial, and often demanding, part of becoming a teacher. During this time, mentor-teachers work in close collaboration with student teachers, who are often teaching in an actual school setting for the first time. As the relationship…
Descriptors: Mentors, Student Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Teacher Attitudes
Lena O. Magnusson; Annika Elm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The study presented in this article shows some aspects of how children between the ages of three and five and their educators perceive and describe the educational environment in early childhood education in Sweden. The data is generated using "pedagogical walk-throughs" with the educators and "camera tours" together with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Preschools
Peter Wikström; Susanne Duek; Marie Nilsberth; Christina Olin-Scheller – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This study addresses normative orientations to smartphone use in Swedish upper-secondary classrooms. We present a Nexus Analysis from a policy enactment perspective of a material comprising ethnographic interviews, classroom video observations, and smartphone screen capture, investigating how a cultural conception of the smartphone as a source of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Internet, Classroom Environment
Karlberg, Martin; Klang, Nina; Andersson, Filip; Hancock, Kirsten; Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Kearney, Christopher; Galanti, Maria Rosaria – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
While individual and family factors behind students' school absenteeism are well-researched, fewer studies have addressed school climate factors. This study investigated the association between school climate in Swedish schools and students' absenteeism. A multi-informant survey of school climate was conducted in 101 schools and analysed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Educational Environment, Correlation
Holmqvist, Diana – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
This article argues for using French pragmatic sociology to explore tensions regarding teachers' work, by studying critique formulated by teachers themselves. Based on interviews with teachers in Swedish adult education it shows how teachers labour to reconcile 'what is' with 'what should be' by voicing critique. The findings suggest that, while…
Descriptors: Criticism, Sociology, Teacher Attitudes, Adult Education
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
Download full textAlexina Thorén Williams; Maria Svensson; Dawn Sanders – Design and Technology Education, 2024
The study aims at professional development directed towards finding new pathways in education for and in sustainable development. In this study, we consider how primary teachers from two schools in Gothenburg, Sweden, experience the forest and the urban area as potential learning environments. This study focuses on teachers' perceptions…
Descriptors: Reflection, Teacher Attitudes, Forestry, Urban Areas
