This study aims to investigate manifestations of professional agency in teacher educators’ (TEds) perceptions during the period of higher education transitioning to emergency remote work.

The aim of this article was to develop knowledge of preschool teachers’ and head teachers’ conceptions and experiences during the initial phase of CBS.

This article discusses the method of values clarification (värderingsövningar), a technique comprising various exercises employed in schools and higher education to process diverse themes. While this method is widely used in Sweden, it has recently received critique due to concerns about pupils’ private lives being inadvertently revealed.

This article presents a study of the variations that appear in preschool teachers' perceptions of the importance and the experience of having carried out systematic child talks in preschool.

The study explores how the materialistic and intellectual landscape of the academic field has evolved in terms of new academic positions with new content and merit assessment.

This study examines 11 students enrolled in a teacher program specializing in school-age educare (grundlärare i fritidshem). School-age educare students exhibit a notable gender balance and many come from low-level educational and/or migrant backgrounds, leading to an exploration into the (re)production of class and gender dynamics.

The research questions are: How do guardians describe participation in preschool? How do guardians perceive their participation in preschool teaching? Conducting interviews with 20 guardians resulted in the emergence of four themes.

The present work examines the relation between teachers’ teaching practices (i.e. students’ evaluations of teaching and autonomy support), students’ feelings of boredom, agentic engagement, and motivation. Participants were 225 university students (94 undergraduate students and 131 postgraduate students).

The aim of this article is to explore teachers’ values regarding professional responsibility in the compulsory school context based on the interaction with teacher assistants and in light of policy discourses on teacher professionalism.

This exploratory paper contributes to the literature on European Union (EU) soft governance by discussing the recent EU policy initiative “Erasmus+ Teacher Academies” as a case of experimentalist governance. Asking what makes this initiative a case of experimentalist governance, the paper demonstrates how it constitutes an experiment in terms of governance as well as the…

The Teachers Conceptions of Assessment (TCoA) inventory was an early and influential measure of teacher assessment conceptions, but replication studies have shown that the model may be affected by policy and practice context. In the present study, a Swedish adaptation of the TCoA was administered twice, 18 months apart.

Research often defines Work-integrated Learning (WIL) as an educational approach that provides students with work-based experiences. In this article, we argue that this approach definition of WIL is nonsensical and maintains a research terminology that fails to capture what WIL is, namely, a multidimensional learning phenomenon. Drawing on this argument, this article aims to explore…