In this position paper, I argue that it is necessary for educators to engage with non-essentialist understandings of language and multi-sided perspectives on multilingualism to develop pedagogies that are empowering for multilingual youth in Sweden. (pdf)

The study examined how legislators, central bureaucrats, and teachers interpret the Swedish School Act’s formulation that education should be based on science. A special focus was on education about values.

This study contributes to the sparse research by asking: What characterizes the openings of 58 reading lessons in Norwegian language arts 8th grade classrooms? A key finding is that in most openings, the teachers make academic cognitive moves which help create an academic frame around students’ learning.

School stress is widespread among students’ worldwide, impacting academic success and mental health. Most research focuses on average stress levels but lacks insights into temporal trends and inequalities.

Preparing student teachers for a profession that continuously changes in relation to digitalisation is a global challenge.

Linguistic diversity creates both opportunities and challenges for peer relations in today’s classrooms. However, how class linguistic diversity relates to peer relations as a dimension of classroom social climate and its relation to academic achievement is unclear.

Based on the assumptions of Cognitive Load Theory and its derived signaling principle, previous research on instructional material has mainly investigated the effect of including visual cues to support the processing and integration of information. In the context of the renewed interest in commented videos and podcasts as instructional materials, the present study investigates the…

This study used a structured, problem-based curriculum supported by guided inquiry pedagogy, to explore 6 year old students’ learning of basic computational thinking concepts and practices while coding programmable floor robots (Blue-bots and an iPad app).

Through the concepts of organizational routines and sensemaking, this article explores the interrelated dynamics of these factors in teacher hiring through a case study within the Swedish School-Age Educare.

Shadowing has been used for decades in educational leadership and management research. Yet, there appears to be little academic discussion of shadowing and its related forms or anal-yses of the method itself.

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the factors that encourage and hinder teachers who lead innovative school initiatives and to identify the circles of support available to them in the process.

The aim of this article is to study and theorize on conditions for school actors’ knowledge building within such large-scale school improvement reforms. Using a Swedish large-scale school improvement program, “Collaboration for the Best School Possible” (CBSP), as a case and the concepts of organizational routines and theorizing as theoretical lenses, we explore questions linked…