Inkludering har länge varit ett mål både internationellt och i svensk skola, men trots detta finns det behov av att öka lärares inkluderingskompetens, som att möta alla elevers behov och stärka deras delaktighet. I denna fallstudie presenteras hur ett arbetslag, bestående av tre lärare i grundskolans år 4, konceptualiserar delaktighet och inkludering i syfte att…

Aesthetic learning processes (ALP) are a Scandinavian concept that has proven challenging to define and conceptualise. The artistic/aesthetic and educational fields have described ALP from both medium-specific and medium-neutral perspectives, which has created ambiguities. A clear framework must be developed if ALP is to be a useful and meaningful theoretical model. In this paper, I…

The growing focus on how children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) can learn more effectively overlooks the intrinsic value of children's play, their perspectives, experiences, and contributions. Thus, there is a need for the education that emphasises the unpredictable and transformative to meet the challenges in contemporary society, grounded in democratic and humanistic…

Efforts to advance inclusive education have gained increasing attention in Sweden and the Netherlands. Effective cross-sector collaboration among diverse stakeholders is essential to ensure that all children’s needs are adequately met. However, existing service delivery models remain largely referral-based, focusing on the individual needs of a child. There is a growing need for system-wide, context-based…

The main aim of this study was to investigate whether the experience of academic boredom predicts adolescents’ academic achievement in the context of Norwegian upper secondary school, and the extent to which perceived autonomy granting could be indirectly associated with academic achievement via reduced boredom. (pdf)

This paper highlights and problematises the state’s selection of subject content in Mathematics and Art teaching, and how this has changed over time, based on syllabi from the introduction of elementary education in 1842 to the present syllabi from 2022. (pdf)

Social Education and Public Administration programs. Drawing on in-depth interviews with four educators, the study explores how impartiality is negotiated in response to diverse student backgrounds and institutional expectations. (pdf)

In recent years, long-term school absence has emerged as an incomprehensible problem and phenomenon, often referred to as “school refusal”. We suggest that, to understand the emergence of the phenomenon of school refusal, we must analyse what we have called a process of phenomenisation. (pdf)

The aim of this short-term longitudinal study was to identify salient factors within practicum and develop a questionnaire to measure practicum experiences, and explore how practicum periods affect changes in student teachers’ motivation to continue initial teacher education within a semester. (pdf)

Through a critical policy analysis, this paper investigates how the recontextualisation of “trust” may reshape power relations and reflect underlying ideological positions. NPM has played a central role in the conservative modernisation of education, shaped by coalitions of neoliberals, neoconservatives, the new managerial middle class, and authoritarian populists. (pdf)

Within Variation Theory, the notion of critical aspects is used to identify what learners must discern to grasp an object of learning. Its meaning within Cultural-historical Theory – particularly Davydov’s approach, which emphasizes the formation of theoretical concepts – remains underexplored. This paper theoretically reconstructs the notion through a dialectical analysis, relating it to knowledge as theoretical…

Girls appear to benefit more from classroom-based assessment, whereas boys achieve comparatively higher results under blind grading. However, the existing knowledge base is limited, as previous studies rely on older datasets, focus primarily on compulsory schooling, and lack access to comprehensive register data from upper secondary education. This study addresses these gaps by analyzing recent…