This article uses ethnographic and focus group research in an ethnically diverse secondary school in East London to empirically explore the opportunities and challenges of intercultural education in practice.

This paper presents the qualitative interpretations of writing assessment criteria of 10 teachers of Year 6 (children aged 10–11) from primary schools in England.

Given the disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered in people's professional lives, the importance and contribution of certain workforces has been under particular scrutiny. In England, the teaching profession has been under particularly close public scrutiny, with concerns that teachers’ perceived social appreciation may have decreased throughout the pandemic.

Sourcing information related to socio-scientific issues requires sophisticated literacies to read and evaluate conflicting accounts often signified by disagreement among experts, multiple solutions or misinformation. Much of the previous work exploring how young people approach conflicting information has tended to focus on students in the secondary and tertiary years, often taking an epistemic approach to…

This article offers new empirical evidence regarding the limits of the premises of educational privatisation policies. Educational markets rely on the assumption that private participation has the potential to boost school diversification and open new educational opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The incorporation of mental well-being provision into school curricula is increasingly the focus of government policy in the UK and internationally. However, it is not clear what well-being programmes schools provide to pupils, and how these programmes are delivered. The current study was an online survey to assess the use of whole-school well-being programmes in…

This study aimed to gain a greater understanding of how community actors perceive meaningful leisure time and how they work to create meaningful leisure time with the intention of increasing the chances for more adolescents completing upper secondary school.

Skolforskningsinstitutet har publicerat en av sina systematiska forskningssammanställningar i en vetenskaplig tidskrift: Music Education Research. Studien bygger på institutets systematiska översikt Att stödja elevers lärande i musik – undervisning i grund- och gymnasieskolan.

The paper analyzes how assessment of the subject English is presented in Sweden and Finland at the lower and upper secondary levels.

This study aims to investigate how the courses in didactics of mathematics in preschool and primary teacher education create conditions for preservice teachers to develop professional knowledge in an interactive learning process that integrates the knowledge domains of mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogical mathematical knowledge.

This study investigates the potential to encompass questions about transgender and gender fluid identity in the school subject visual art in compulsory school years 7-9.

Denna artikel behandlar läsande i samhällskunskapsämnet i årskurs 5 och 8. Syftet är att fördjupa förståelsen av vilka förutsättningar för elevers läsförståelse i samhällskunskap som skapas genom olika sätt att arbeta med läsande i ämnet.