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Christina Hedman; Linda Fisher – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper draws from a collaborative project in which we piloted a Critical Multilingual Language Awareness approach (CMLA) in a preparatory class for recently arrived secondary school students in Sweden. We adapted material on Language Awareness from "We Are Multilingual" (https://www.wamcam.org). This adapted approach followed the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sayers, Judy; Petersson, Jöran; Marschall, Gosia; Andrews, Paul – Educational Review, 2022
This paper presents an exploratory study of English and Swedish teachers' perspectives on the role of homework in year-one children's learning of number. In order to ensure cultural integrity, data were analysed independently by two colleagues in each context. Analyses yielded three broad but cross-culturally common themes reflecting culturally…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Homework, Parent Role
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Nordine, Jeffrey; Sorge, Stefan; Delen, Ibrahim; Evans, Robert; Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Nilsson, Pernilla; Ropohl, Mathias; Stadler, Matthias – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
Recent research and reform efforts in science education have consistently stressed the importance of coherent science instruction, in which learning opportunities are connected and contextualized by meaningful phenomena, focus on a small set of core ideas over time, and generate a need-to-know about new ideas through a set of connected lessons.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Science Teachers
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Sandoff, Mette; Nilsson, Kerstin; Apelgren, Britt-Marie; Frisk, Sylva; Booth, Shirley – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Higher education teaching demands theoretical and practical knowledge. It goes without saying, a strong knowledge of one's subject is essential. But while teaching principles are generally gleaned from short courses, it is one's own teaching that offer the main ground for gaining practical teaching knowledge. To examine this claim we have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries
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Thorgersen, Cecilia Ferm; Johansen, Geir; Juntunen, Marja-Leena – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
In this study we investigated the visions of 12 music teacher educators who teach pedagogical courses called instrumental pedagogy and classroom music pedagogy in three music academies in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The data were collected through individual, semi-structured qualitative interviews. Drawing on Hammerness' concept of "teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Musical Instruments
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Jacobsson, Christian; Pousette, Anders; Thylefors, Ingela – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2001
Created guidelines for stress management intervention by investigating the relationship of 12 factors with stress reactions and feelings of mastery among 826 Swedish teachers in 27 comprehensive schools. Teacher stress reactions were best predicted by perceived work demands, student misbehavior, and negative feedback, while mastery feelings were…
Descriptors: Feedback, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Intervention
Lindblad, Sverker – Western European Education, 1988
Analyzes the value orientations of Swedish teachers regarding basic social issues such as economic conflicts and political preferences. Concludes that Swedish teachers are dominated by value orientations distant from those of the working class and that the school provides a picture of society that is more consistent with employer's interests than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Social Attitudes