This article introduces and illustrates Lesson Design Workshops (LDW), a methodology for theory-practice bridging in education.

This study aims to explore what ambitious mathematics instructional practices are carried out in the classroom during a national-scale mathematics teacher professional development program and investigate the variability in use of those practices. 

The qualitative study examines the discourses that preservice teachers of early education utilize when negotiating their teacher identity. The study has found three discourses: therapeutic, entrepreneurial, and crisis.

This article presents a systematic literature review to analyse the knowledge contributions of research in Sweden as to how educational leaders are addressing interculturalism in schools.

Using children’s literature in different formats is a well-established pedagogical approach for discussing existential questions with young children. This study analyses two books: Goodbye, Mr. Muffin and The Visit from Little Death. The linguistic and visual analyses shed light on the narrative structures, participant roles, and various semiotic elements in these books.

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…

The aim is to investigate what challenges preschool staff may face when they put preschool inclusion into practice and to locate, present and synthesise recommended evidence-based ways of overcoming these challenges. 

Soft governance in the Swedish school system permits local education authorities to design their own models for systematic quality work (SQW). National policy emphasizes systematization and continuity and also recommends participation and dialogue with principals. This study aims to contribute knowledge about how soft governance in SQW plays out at the LEA level. 

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. 

This study investigates young children’s embodied, emplaced, and experienced learning in the context of sacred spaces. In the study, a group of 5–7-year-old Finnish preschoolers participated in four site visits to churches and mosques. 

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. 

Over the course of one year, a team of teachers and two classes of students in a Norwegian vocational upper secondary school explored how to further develop participation practices through an insider action research approach.