Distributed leadership (DL) has gained importance in educational leadership research, especially in Western (mainly Anglo-American) contexts. This study explores DL’s conceptualization and enactment in the Muslim world through a meta-synthesis of existing qualitative studies, addressing the need for broader cultural perspectives. (pdf)

School governance is a contested concept due to ongoing disagreements over its meaning and application, particularly in education sub-fields like leadership, management, and administration (ELMA). Aware of global efforts to differentiate ELMA’s knowledge base, this paper critically reviews school governance literature from 2000 to 2023. (pdf)

The study is part of a three-year project aimed at analysing inclusive practices and strategies among teachers as it concerns students’ individual needs. This study focuses on a specific inclusive strategy – peer learning (PL). The aim was to identify the strategies teachers use to engage all students in peer learning activities and to examine…

The growing problem of misinformation underscores the importance of teaching civic information criticism as a part of citizenship education. To support students’ abilities to participate in democracy, it is central today to address issues of free speech, free press, and protection against harmful misinformation in education. (pdf)

Technology usage in rural schools has benefits that can lead us to undercount the costs. While technology has proven useful in facilitating learning that is impossible to facilitate in rural schools, it has also been used indiscriminately. When we stop looking at rural schools solely through a deficit lens, we see that rural schools have…

The purpose of this article is to build knowledge of what can characterize the “didaktik-where” question in theory-informed preschool teaching arrangements trialed in an ULF network. (pdf).

This article explores preschool teachers’ experiences of conducting analysis of their own and each other’s spontaneously arising teaching situations. (pdf).

Despite the recognition of the local education administration (LEA) as a pivotal actor in the enhancement of quality, previous research incorporating both the LEA and school principals remains scarce. The current study aims to enhance the understanding of different types of discursive contradictions in collaboration and explore the possible consequences of contradictions between the LEA…

Mass media is a powerful social institution that establishes dominant discourses about social practices. This study is a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two TV series depicting the Swedish school system, broadcast by the Swedish public service broadcasting company (SVT) before the 2022 election. (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…

This article explores how participants in preparatory courses for further and higher education at Swedish folkhögskolor (adult education folk high schools) perceive their studies. It aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of their experiences within this unique educational context. (pdf).

This article focuses on the participant ideals that emerged in the Swedish folkhögskola (‘adult education folk high school’) during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of these schools’ activities transitioned to distance learning following the restrictions imposed by the Public Health Agency of Sweden. (pdf).