The purpose of this article is to examine mother tongue education in Arabic in relation to Arabic diglossia, and to discuss equity and social justice. To study the diglossic situation in Arabic and the space provided by the steering documents for language use and translanguaging in Swedish mothertongue classrooms, we investigate language policy regarding ideology,…

The learning-by-teaching paradigm, particularly with AI-powered teachable agents, has shown particular promise for mathematics education. Despite this potential, it remains unclear how to best balance conceptual and procedural knowledge in this paradigm to optimize learning. This study addresses that question by examining how students' knowledge focus during two learning phases, preparing for teaching by watching…

Recent studies have revealed a close link between students' social background and their acquisition of digital competencies. This study investigates i) whether social disparities in digital competencies are increasing or decreasing over time, and ii) the primary mechanisms driving these changes. (pdf)

This study traced 15 Hong Kong preservice language teachers’ agentic engagement with GenAI for self-directed professional learning over one year through two rounds of interviews. (pdf)

This study examines how school leaders use Facebook as a leadership practice within contexts of public visibility, accountability, and governance. Drawing on dialogic public relations theory, it explores how policy demands and institutional expectations shape communication strategies. (pdf)

Adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) are more vulnerable to sexual violence than their neurotypical peers. The literature argues that the group's lack of knowledge, communication difficulties, and challenges in understanding social situations contribute to this vulnerability. In this study, 9 males and 5 females with ID were interviewed about their experiences of a sexual violence…

In the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school) and teacher education, increasingly plurilingual student populations call for responsive plurilingual pedagogies in teacher education. This paper explores second-order didactics in plurilingual teaching combined with task-based and playful approaches in the English and French teacher education at University College Copenhagen. (pdf)

This study investigates how cultural and linguistic diversity is discursively construed in mathematics teacher education for Grades 4–6 in Sweden at policy level. Discourse analysis was used to examine 55 mathematics course syllabi and 20 educational curricula from various Swedish universities. (pdf)

As higher education places increasing demands on academic reading and writing, students with Swedish as a second language face growing linguistic and epistemic challenges due to the instructional language not being their mother tongue. (pdf)

In this study, we aimed to examine perspectives related to multilingualism as expressed by students in teacher education programmes for Swedish language teachers at three universities in Finland. (pdf)

This longitudinal study investigated 838 Finnish students’ school absenteeism (SA; sickness, truancy, and other reasons) during the primary-to-lower secondary school transition. The students (mean age = 12.3 years, girls 54.2%) were surveyed (a) spring of the sixth grade (b) autumn of the seventh grade, and (c) spring oft the seventh grade. (pdf)

Aiming to protect and advance professionals’ job interests, professional organizations play influential roles in the politics of education worldwide. However, examinations of these organizations as political actors remain limited. This study addresses this research gap by exploring the policy capacity of four professional organizations in the Norwegian education sector – specifically, the skills and resources…