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Alison L. Milner; Pontus Bäckström; Johan Ernestam – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Trade union collaboration on issues of social justice connects workers to each other and to their wider communities and is therefore considered a strategy of union renewal. Prior to their amalgamation on 1 January 2023, Lärarförbundet (Swedish Teachers' Union) and Lärarnas Riksförbund (National Union of Teachers in Sweden) collaborated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Unions, Union Members
Berglund, Leif; Andersson, Per – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: Work-place learning takes place in many settings and in different ways, resulting in knowledge and skills of different kinds. The recognition process in the work place is however often implicit and seldom discussed in terms of recognition of prior learning (RPL). The aim of this paper is to give examples of how the knowledge/skills of…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Employees, Prior Learning, Logical Thinking
Kopsen, Susanne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning in a Swedish trade union board in a workplace, according to contemporary challenges in working life and conditions, of decentralization and local independency of trade union work and learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on ethnographic studies of two Swedish local trade…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Ethnography, Unions, Learning Processes
Beach, Dennis; Carlen, Margata – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
The head gangman in the Swedish building trade is a worker elected organiser in a gang comprising between about 4 and 16 workers and an "on-site" and trained representative of the trades union. In 2002 the employer association for the building industry in Sweden (BI) and the Swedish Building and Allied Trades Union (SBATU) signed a joint…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Building Trades, Unions, Administrators
Lips, Dan – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Across the United States, policymakers are increasingly adopting education policies that give families the power to choose their children's schools. Nonetheless, the idea of providing school vouchers to allow children to attend private schools remains controversial. For instance, congressional leaders and the Obama Administration have tried to end…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers