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Annika Forsler; Pernilla Nilsson; Susanne Walan – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
It is vital that upper secondary students gain a rich and deep knowledge of sustainability issues, as they will enter adulthood and working life within a short time. The students belong to a generation that will be intensely involved in managing several environmental issues to achieve sustainable development for our Earth. However, earlier…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Self Efficacy, Science Teachers
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Andersson, Ketty; Sandgren, Olof; Rosqvist, Ida; Lyberg Åhlander, Viveka; Hansson, Kristina; Sahlén, Birgitta – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
Continued professional development (CPD), tailored to teachers' needs and expectations, is required for updated skills and knowledge. In this study, twenty-five teachers working with first and second grade students participated in an 11-week programme focusing on enhancing classroom communication. The participating teachers were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Schooner, Patrick; Höst, Gunnar; Klasander, Claes; Hallström, Jonas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In technology education, assessment is challenging and underdeveloped as it is a nascent practice and teachers do not have a well-defined subject tradition to lean on when assessing students. The aim of this study is to explore Swedish secondary technology teachers' cognitive beliefs about assessing students' learning of technological systems, in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Technology Education, Secondary School Teachers
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Gümüs, Emine; Bellibas, Mehmet Sükrü – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between professional development and teacher self-efficacy, exploring the extent to which various types, either job-embedded or traditional professional development activities, predict teachers' perceived self-efficacy while controlling for several teacher characteristics and school…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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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
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Fridberg, Marie; Redfors, Andreas; Greca, Ileana M.; García Terceño, Eva M. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This article describes outcomes from the Erasmus + project botSTEM, involving a theoretical framework for Science, Technology, Engineering & Technology (STEM) and robotics and teaching activities for preschool teachers and teachers educating children 4-8 years old. Spanish and Swedish preschool teachers' self-efficacy and views of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, STEM Education, Robotics
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Lelinge, Balli; Alwall, Jonas – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2022
Few longitudinal, mixed methods studies focusing on teachers' views of inclusive teaching have been conducted in primary schools. This article draws attention to a Swedish in-service (K-5) school improvement research project, aiming to contribute to a school's development toward improved inclusive education, where teachers' experiences were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
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Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Olsson, Daniel; Berglund, Teresa; Gericke, Niklas – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This longitudinal quantitative study investigated teachers' development of self-efficacy and teaching practices relating to education for sustainable development (ESD) in four compulsory schools in a Swedish municipality. The teachers participated in a professional development program over three school years designed to support them in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Practices, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Karlsudd, Peter – Education Sciences, 2021
This article reports the Swedish results and experiences from the survey study "Educators' perspectives of belonging in early years education," which was part of the research project "Politics of belonging: Promoting children's inclusion in educational settings across borders". The purpose of the survey study was to gain…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Sense of Community, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Reichenberg, Monica; Löfgren, Kent – Education and Society, 2019
The overall aim of this study was to describe the role of self-efficacy for inclusive education as a predictor of Swedish special educators' attitudes towards participation by students with ID in the community outside the school building. Consequently, our research question was the following: To what extent does self-efficacy for inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Inclusion, Special Education Teachers
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Ödalen, Jörgen; Brommesson, Douglas; Erlingsson, Gissur Ó.; Schaffer, Johan Karlsson; Fogelgren, Mattias – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Do pedagogical training courses for university teachers have desirable effects on the participants? We set out to answer this question by following a panel of 183 university teachers from Sweden's six largest universities, who participated in pedagogical training courses. Our study reveals that the participants' self-reported confidence in their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Teaching Experience
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Mellroth, Elisabet – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Aiming to bring teachers' perspectives to research, teachers' (N = 12) discussions are explored in the context of a professional development program on teaching highly able pupils (HAPs) mathematics. The findings show that the teachers perceive they have the competence to recognize HAPs, for example through continuous assessment. However, they…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Education, Gifted Education
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Leffler, Eva – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Entrepreneurship in school is a widespread issue within the school system and it is therefore important to problematise teachers and their role when entrepreneurship is emphasized in their school practice. The teachers in this study, from the secondary and upper secondary levels, were all participating in a Swedish three-year school improvement…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Implementation, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
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Olsson, Daniel; Gericke, Niklas – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
This study revisits the seminal question of the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) by adopting a novel approach. Little is known about the effects of ESD as a teaching approach to develop students' action competence for sustainability. This study therefore adopts a three-wave longitudinal design, tapping into the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Change, Secondary School Students
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Walton, Geoff; Childs, Mark; Jugo, Gordana – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The aim of the project was to motivate school students to learn about the national literature of their own and others' countries. Engagement was fostered via the creation of digital artefacts (or "e-artefacts") such as online comic strips, live videos or animations. The pedagogical rationale was based on Papert's constructionism and…
Descriptors: Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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