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).

The aim of this study is to explore the makeup of teacher education programs for the language and literature school subjects Swedish (SWE) and Swedish as a Second Language (SSL) in upper secondary teacher education. (pdf)

This study aims to investigate, analyze, and explain how the indoor physical learning environment constitutes opportunities and constraints from the pupils’ perspectives. (pdf).

The current study aimed to validate the Finnish student version of the PIQ (PIQ-Fin) using primary school data. A total of 621 Finnish students aged 10–13 in mainstream classrooms participated in this study.

The article explores how students in a linguistically and ethnically diverse neighbourhood are constructed and positioned by school professionals, and how this influences teaching and other school practices.

This article introduces and illustrates Lesson Design Workshops (LDW), a methodology for theory-practice bridging in education.

This study aims to explore what ambitious mathematics instructional practices are carried out in the classroom during a national-scale mathematics teacher professional development program and investigate the variability in use of those practices. 

The qualitative study examines the discourses that preservice teachers of early education utilize when negotiating their teacher identity. The study has found three discourses: therapeutic, entrepreneurial, and crisis.