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. 

This study systematically evaluated applicant packs for 59 Secondary Headteacher roles and found evidence to suggest recruitment materials constitute an institutional mechanism that could contribute to sustaining gender inequality in UK Headship.

Decades of research show that tests, beyond assessing student knowledge, are powerful tools for promoting learning. However, high-stakes tests can also cause stress and disengagement. To utilize tests to encourage and motivate students, we implemented a mastery-based testing system in a large-enrollment general chemistry course (N = 234).

This study investigates the types of questions pre-service early childhood teachers propose for eliciting children’s ideas about science topics. 

K-12 remote teaching is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a pedagogic practice characterised by the teachers’ spatial separation, digital technology usage, and often the involvement of a facilitator. However, little is known about how these characteristics impact the modalities of pedagogic practice. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse K-12 remote teaching in Sweden as a pedagogic…

This single-case study focuses on 91 Swedish upper secondary students’ educational encounters with a local historical archive via a place-based educational intervention.

It has been argued that successful teacher collaboration is challenging to implement in a secondary school context, where teaching is based on subjects. However, collaboration between subject teachers and special education teachers (SETs) is important, especially in promoting inclusion. This is why we wanted to determine what is included in their collaboration in Finnish secondary…

Discursive institutionalism and its contribution to curriculum research. This article develops the argument that discursive institutionalism is a constructive contribution to curriculum research. (pdf).

This article explores how teaching and play are conceptualised in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It draws upon previous research to highlight a linguistic challenge related to “the talk of” and the prevalent logic of distinction. (pdf).