This investigation aims to understand teachers’ policy interpretation and sense-making of PBA in disadvantaged schools in Madrid (Spain) and Santiago (Chile). Following a qualitative approach, we examine the discourses of teachers working in vulnerable school settings in these two cities. 

This study aims to analyse how children’s right to participate is conceptualised and contextualised in Brazilian and Norwegian legal early childhood education (ECE) documents. This is a cross-cultural comparative study in which we conducted a qualitative content analysis of the similarities and differences in the two countries’ legal ECE documents. 

The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats.…

This article explores teachers’ experiences of addressing spontaneous controversial issues in Municipal Adult Education (MAE) classrooms, in Sweden. 

This article explores historical shifts in the discourse of inclusion in the policy of Swedish Municipal Adult Education (SMAE). Drawing on Foucauldian concepts of discourse, governmentality, and subjectivity, a critical discourse analysis was conducted on the so far three existing curricula for SMAE. 

Lärare tillhör de yrkesgrupper som mest frekvent utsätts för arbetsplatsvåld, vilket påverkar deras psykiska och fysiska hälsa, berörda elever och skolverksamheten. Denna artikel presenterar resultat från ett forskningsprojekt om hot och våld mot lärare från elever i svenska högstadieskolor, och bygger på intervjuer med lärare, representanter från lärarfacken och rektorer. (pdf)

Flexischooling—the sharing of a child's education between home and school through formal agreement—is one of a range of ‘alternative’ education approaches that may adapt education to meet a child's special educational needs. This study considers qualitative data from an online survey conducted during November and December 2023 regarding parents' reasons for undertaking flexischooling with their…

In this paper, we use the lens of complexity theory and in particular the constructs of agents, interaction, dispersed control, and emergence to describe top-down and bottom-up mechanisms for change within the sudden shift to emergency remote teaching and learning. (pdf)

This paper explores ECE educators’ preservice experience of engaging with Makerspace workshops as part of their undergraduate degree. (pdf)

This study explores the understanding and application of the infection model, specifically focusing on cystitis caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli) in a diaper-changing context, among preservice teachers (PSTs). (pdf)

This paper examines how children's agency operates within primary education in England through an in-depth qualitative study of three contrasting schools over two years. (pdf)

 This paper contributes to wider debates around the status of education research as a field, or discipline, by exploring the extent to which the research methods used by education researchers working in UK higher education, and beyond, have varied over the last 20 years. (pdf)