With levels of mental health difficulties among young people rising and policymakers focusing on the state's role in promoting young people's wellbeing, educational institutions have become positioned on the front line as key sites to identify and implement wellbeing interventions. This paper draws on a series of policy analyses and qualitative studies with young people…

In this paper, we theorise our practice as teacher educators to understand a practice issue: the challenge our students had in developing pedagogical reasoning. The article discusses the findings of the theorising process to explore how pedagogical reasoning is developed and why it is challenging. It also provides an approach for theorising and exemplifies the…

This study recognised that there is currently limited understanding of the extent and nature of ability grouping practices in subject areas other than mathematics and English in primary schools. Using survey methods, this research sought to generate data of sufficient scale to extend understanding of the use of ability grouping practices in primary physical education…

Many newcomer children spend a ‘silent year’ in elementary school classrooms while they adjust to a new culture and language. This often delays inclusion in learning and forming friendships with peers. For refugee children with disabilities this phase may last for 3 years or more, impacting their mental health and sense of belonging, and potentially worsening…

This study focuses on children's own perceptions of participation in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings. (pdf)

Kvalitet i dagtilbud er et omdiskuteret fænomen. Mens forskerpositionerne kan være skarpt optrukne, er pædagogernes stemme ofte fraværende i debatten. I denne artikel giver vi ordet til pædagoger i to danske vuggestuer og beskriver deres møde med det standardiserede kvalitetsvurderingsredskab ITERS-3 med særligt fokus på kvalitet i det sprogpædagogiske arbejde med bøger. (pdf)

Idag saknar förskolor i både större och mindre städer i allt större utsträckning lämpliga utomhusmiljöer för sina dagliga utomhusaktiviteter. Artikeln visar hur relationen mellan förskolors sociala och rumsliga förutsättningar och stadsrummets krympande öppna ytor för barns lek, umgänge och rekreation blottlades och ställdes på sin spets under covid-19-pandemin. (pdf)

This research focused on the potential for relational expertise and the creation of common knowledge in network cooperation between early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres and university in the context of the ECEC Development Network. (pdf)

The Barbie doll was launched in 1959 in the US and has been a mainstay for girls worldwide, including in the Nordic countries. This study draws on a one-year ethnographic study in a first-grade primary school in a major city in Norway. (pdf)

High-quality mathematics education not only improves life outcomes for individuals but also drives innovation and progress across society. But what exactly constitutes high-quality mathematics education? In this article, we contribute to this discussion by focusing on arithmetic fluency. (pdf)

Whether teachers in English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts possess adequate English skills to teach in their disciplines is widely debated in internationalized higher education. From such debates emerges the assumption that EMI teachers’ approach to teaching is associated with their level of English proficiency; crucially, however, empirical evidence of such a connection is missing.

The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of a growth mindset intervention program called I can learn among Finnish elementary school students. Altogether, 116 third-grade students participated in this study, which used both quantitative and qualitative evidence to measure the effects of the intervention program.