Contemporary currents in school leadership increasingly focus on collaboration and participation. In Sweden, notions of “communal pedagogical leadership” emphasize teachers’ roles in shaping the desired school, introducing Collaborative Professional Learning (CPL) as an organizational necessity. This article provides a governmentality analysis of CPL manuals from 2019 to 2022, exploring the rationalities employed in its framework…

This article focuses on policy implementation in the age of global educational assessment. Its object of study is a large Swedish, governmentally initiated professional development programme for teachers, called the Reading Lift. 

Structured teacher collaboration has considerable potential to support teachers’ professional learning. The current article focuses on what characterises teachers’ decision-making processes during teamwork. 

mplementation processes are significantly influenced by contextual conditions. To investigate which context factors are implicitly salient for teachers, we conducted interviews with N = 43 elementary school teachers who gave recommendations for designing effective teacher professional development for implementing a reading innovation into their school.( pdf)

In this article, constructions of consent are analysed within a Swedish educational television series aimed at primary school pupils. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, two discourses within the program series are identified and examined: a juridical and a neoliberal discourse. (pdf)

Peter Johannesson, gymnasielärare och forskare vid Göteborgs universitet, har fått sin avhandling utsedd till Lärarpanelens favorit. Hans forskning betonar vikten av att lärare får vara med att bestämma innehållet i sin kompetensutveckling för att göra lärandet meningsfullt.

Om lärares lärande ska upplevas meningsfullt är det viktigt att de själva får vara med och fatta beslut om kompetensutvecklingens innehåll. Då kan de utgå från verkliga problem som de upplever i undervisningen, konstaterar Peter Johannesson, vars avhandling har blivit utsedd till Lärarpanelens favorit.

Skolledarkvarten gästas av Anette Jahnke, processledare på Ifous. Med sin djupa erfarenhet som forskare och projektledare diskuterar hon hur professionsutveckling kan stärkas genom praktiknära forskning och samverkan mellan huvudmän och forskare. (webb-tv)