The aim of this study is to examine the master’s theses of primary school student teachers in Finland. Furthermore, the aim is to place the results, in terms of format and content of the master’s theses, within the theoretical framework of an academic and a professional orientation.

Education and teacher practices are increasingly entangled with anticipations of how AI will change education. Implications for teacher education are not wholly understood. This study explores anticipations of AI in K–12 education and teachers’ pedagogical practices, and contributes to an understanding of the anticipated impacts of AI on teacher education.

"Genialt” er en af tilbagemeldingerne fra en nyuddannet lærer, der har set 360-graders optagelser af sin undervisning. Forskeren Lucas Paulsen, som står bag ph.d.-projektet, tror, at video kan gøre nye lærere klogere på egen praksis.

Elever med behöriga lärare uppvisar bättre resultat – men ännu viktigare för elevresultaten är om deras lärare har ämneskompetens. Det visar ny forskning på mellanstadiet. "Därför borde lärarutbildningarna innehålla ännu mer av ämnesspecialisering riktat mot årskurserna man undervisar i", säger Mari Paloniemi Lindström.

I universitetsexamen för samtliga ämneslärare ingick 1907–1968 en kurs i ”psykologi samt pedagogikens teori och historia” som var obligatorisk och högst en termin lång. Denna artikel följer kursen över tid och analyserar kursens plats i ämneslärarutbildning och i grundutbildning i pedagogik utifrån dels förväntningarnas roll och dels gränsdragningen mellan teori och praktik. (pdf)

Denna vetenskapliga artikel redovisar resultat från en studie vars syfte är att bidra med kunskap om vad för slags kunskaper som legitimeras och utelämnas vid en svensk lärarutbildning.

The aim of this study is to explore the makeup of teacher education programs for the language and literature school subjects Swedish (SWE) and Swedish as a Second Language (SSL) in upper secondary teacher education. (pdf)

The paper aims to map and analyse changes over time for the research methods used and topics of theses in Swedish teacher education between 2005 and 2023. 

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).

This study explores the concept of a responsive curriculum for teacher education using a qualitative approach. Interviews were conducted with the key actors, namely students and teacher educators, in the context of Dutch teacher education. (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.