Sebastian Björnhammer har en bakgrund som NO-lärare och arbetar numera som nationell samordnare inom praktiknära forskning. I mitten av augusti disputerade han med sin avhandling där han undersöker vad som sker när elever arbetar med undersökande uppgifter i naturvetenskap.

Transitioning from primary to secondary school is a big change for students. As schools begin to turn their minds towards student transition activities for the 2026 school year, new international research shines a light on the impact of student absenteeism during these transition years. We’re joined by the study’s lead author to find out more.

Technology usage in rural schools has benefits that can lead us to undercount the costs. While technology has proven useful in facilitating learning that is impossible to facilitate in rural schools, it has also been used indiscriminately. When we stop looking at rural schools solely through a deficit lens, we see that rural schools have…

Lärarnas insatser är förstås viktiga för alla elevers lärande – men de är allra viktigast för pojkarna. Det konstaterar forskaren och specialpedagogen Ingela Stenberg. "Vi måste våga bredda analysen för att förklara varför killarna klarar sig sämre i skolan."

Mass media is a powerful social institution that establishes dominant discourses about social practices. This study is a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two TV series depicting the Swedish school system, broadcast by the Swedish public service broadcasting company (SVT) before the 2022 election. (pdf).

The current study aimed to validate the Finnish student version of the PIQ (PIQ-Fin) using primary school data. A total of 621 Finnish students aged 10–13 in mainstream classrooms participated in this study.

This article problematises the amendment of the Swedish Education Act using visual arts education as a case. In 2021, the Swedish government, on behalf of a Committé, released a report promoting publisher-produced teaching materials, e.g., to strengthen students’ access to publisher-produced teaching materials. 

K-12 remote teaching is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a pedagogic practice characterised by the teachers’ spatial separation, digital technology usage, and often the involvement of a facilitator. However, little is known about how these characteristics impact the modalities of pedagogic practice. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse K-12 remote teaching in Sweden as a pedagogic…

It has been argued that successful teacher collaboration is challenging to implement in a secondary school context, where teaching is based on subjects. However, collaboration between subject teachers and special education teachers (SETs) is important, especially in promoting inclusion. This is why we wanted to determine what is included in their collaboration in Finnish secondary…

Denna artikel bygger på resultat från ett samverkansprojekt där en högstadielärare och forskare gemensamt genomförde formativa interventioner för att undersöka epistemiska känslor – särskilt förundran – som pedagogiskt verktyg i undervisning om evolutionära processer. (pdf).