This article examines how two Swedish lower secondary schools, one in a disadvantaged urban area and the other in a rural municipality, enact the compensatory mission of promoting educational equity. (pdf)

This study explored how growth mindset and self-concept interact to impact reading achievement, with reading proficiency moderating these effects. (pdf)

This article investigates how mentoring for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) is shaped as it travels from Norway’s national framework into municipal guidelines and into mentors’ everyday practice. (pdf)

This article shows how Leo van Lier’s ecological curriculum design model can be used to analyse teaching sequences in a multilingual seventh-grade classroom in a Danish primary school. The research question is: What preconditions for learning are created by the teachers in the selected teaching sequences, viewed through van Lier’s curriculum design model? (pdf)

The aim of this study is to develop knowledge of how young readers engage with a literary work addressing honour-based oppression and with its author within Swedish language and literature education. (pdf)

This article reports a study on the process of creating three performance lectures. Anchored in arts-based research and using collaborative autoethnography as a methodological approach, the study describes the process of interpreting texts through improvisation, embodiment, and metaphorical concepts. (pdf)

This study explores how teachers conceptualize relational competence in their work with students with neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs), and how they describe the characteristics of a relationally sustainable learning environment for these students. (pdf)

Obesity is a stigmatised disease, and weight-related bullying is the most common form of victimisation. This study aimed to provide a nuanced understanding of adolescents’ experiences of such victimisation and related interventions. (pdf)

The educational reforms that encompassed school choice, vouchers, and for-profit private schools in Sweden during the 1990s transformed the public comprehensive school system through a process of marketization. The focus of this study is Sweden's largest urban upper secondary school market, the Stockholm region, following these reforms for nearly 30 years. (pdf)

Sustaining teaching as a respected and attractive profession is more critical than ever, particularly as teachers' work becomes increasingly shaped by standardisation and accountability—conditions that have shown minimal positive impact while eroding the professional agency essential to job satisfaction. Drawing on a 15-year programme of research on the impact of an approach to professional development,…

Alongside the growing teacher supply crisis, there are widespread concerns about the mental health and well-being of teachers, leading to a growing interest in the concept of teacher resilience. In this article, we investigate the possibilities for promoting teacher resilience at the school level using a novel participatory approach. (pdf)

Questions of recognition and belonging are central to modern migration and integration debates, yet the everyday school experiences of racialized immigrant-background youth remain underexplored, particularly in Southern Europe. (pdf)