In international comparisons, the Swedish heritage-language education (HLE) system is often described as being at the forefront of HLE in Europe. Following recent right-wing shifts in national politics, HLE has now come under threat. This article investigates the current state of HLE in Sweden, focussing on Arabic, through a survey of the literature, statistics on…

This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. (pdf)

 The research objective of this paper is to identify the challenges and opportunities when AI intertwines with instruction and examine how this hybrid teaching intelligence is being perceived by the students. (pdf)

With increasing interest in computer-assisted education, AI-integrated systems become highly applicable with their ability to adapt based on user interactions. In this context, this paper focuses on understanding and analysing first-year undergraduate student responses to an intelligent educational system that applies multi-agent reinforcement learning as an AI tutor. (pdf)

This paper presents a multidimensional view of AI'srole in education, emphasising the intricate interplayamong AI, analytics and human learning processes. (pdf)

Dialogic reading is a practical activity for promoting language skills in early childhood. Based on this premise, the current study compares the impact of face-to-face dialogic reading (with and without a face mask) and reading via screen in enhancing preschool children's story comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. (pdf)

This study reports a new domain-specific measure of parental self-efficacy for maths (and reading skills) with 3–4-year-olds. 65 families in the UK were surveyed, and a sub-sample of 40 families also completed a remote child assessment session. (pdf)

Barnehagelærerutdanningen er en profesjonsutdanning der det legges stor vekt på praksis. Denne skal bidra til kontinuitet og progresjon i studiet, og til å skape sammenheng mellom teoretisk og praktisk kompetanse. Likevel mener nyutdannede barnehagelærere at gapet mellom utdanningen og barnehagehverdagen er stort. (pdf)

Artikeln undersöker förskolans beredskap för krissituationer, som skjutningar, sprängningar, bilbränder och pandemier, genom intervjuer med elva rektorer i särskilt utsatta områden. (pdf)

This study draws on a one-year ethnographic study in a first-grade primary school in a major city in Norway. Through a collective researching-body-assemblage, we explore what happens when new Barbie dolls with greater variety in body shapes and skin colour are introduced as an inclusionary effort by the municipality. (pdf)

Formålet med denne artikel er at undersøge, hvordan voksnes rammesætning, indretning af rum og materialevalg påvirker børns muligheder for demokratisk deltagelse. Det empiriske materiale udspringer af et forskningsprojekt, hvor daginstitutionspædagoger, børnekulturformidlere og undervisere på pædagoguddannelsen sammen har undersøgt børns deltagelse i tre forskellige børnekulturelle miljøer. (pdf)

This article investigates children’s practices of hesitation in and across pedagogical organising and explores hesitation as performances of the affective navigations that children scruffle with in their everyday educational lives. (pdf)