Johan Hyrén vid Högskolan Väst skriver om vad som krävs för att bli en bra lärare. Han undervisar lärarstudenter i samhällskunskap och forskar parallellt i statsvetenskap.

Research on student-active learning emphasises that engagement is crucial for developing competence. Yet, how engagement and study habits, especially lesson preparation and self-study, affect students’ perceived competence over time remains unclear. This study investigates these relationships in a flipped classroom mathematics course for early childhood teacher education in Norway. (pdf).

This study furthers the understanding of how student teachers make didactic choices when designing digital competence education. It investigates what age groups student teachers choose to include in digital competence education, how they motivate these choices, and how their choices can be understood within the context of the university course in which they designed this…

Practice-oriented research and research base in teacher education. A discourse analytical case study. The aim of the article is to analyse how a discourse focusing on practice-oriented research as a tool to develop the research base in teacher education emerges in Swedish national educational policy and is transformed at a local university level. (pdf).

Teaching practice periods are a vital part of subject teacher education, and school-based teacher educators are crucial actors in the professional development of student teachers. Using a cross-sectional survey, we collected quantitative data from a rarely studied teacher educator group, namely, Finnish subject teacher educators (N = 118) in university teacher training schools.