While research on pedagogical leadership usually starts from an ideal idea of what this form of leadership might be, or from governing documents, in this article we add to the understanding of how preschool principals themselves comprehend, practice, and develop their pedagogical leadership. (pdf)

Physical activity among children has been a topical subject in social debate in recent years. The Swedish school-system is governed by policy, shaped by negotiations between different actors as politicians, public authorities, researchers and persons active in education (pdf).

The aim of this study is to shed light on discourses in national assessment material for recently arrived students and discourses about students' knowledge as they emerge from teachers’ use of the national assessment material for newly arrived students. (pdf)

The aim of the article is to explore constructions of the disciplinary measure emergency school, understood as an institutionalization of the policy for and the public discourse about “forceful measures for safety and discipline” in schools (pdf).

The current study investigates challenges perceived by Swedish primary teachers of English and their thoughts and experiences regarding teaching materials. (pdf)

In this article we investigate the implications of a market orientation of adult education for teachers’ work with the curriculum and for the goals and purposes of education. By focusing on municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden, we provide a unique case. (pdf)

Older students tend to outperform their younger classmates on academic achievement tests, an asymmetry known as the relative age effect (RAE). In Norway, students are not formally tested in the early school years, and less is known about how the RAE impacts teacher evaluations. In this study, we investigated the RAE on teacher-rated academic competence…

In this article, we employed a third-space methodology to bring together two researchers and four teachers who have sustained physically active learning in their practice to explore the real-world applicability and processes of enacting physically active learning in teaching. (pdf)

This study investigates meaningful learning in an online course on interpersonal communication within a Finnish pre-service teacher education program. (pdf)

School attendance problems (SAPs) have implications for children’s and adolescents’ academic, social, and personal development. Previous research has mainly been conducted using quantitative methods. In the present study, the authors searched specific databases for studies reporting qualitative data representing the voices of children, parents, and school staff regarding SAPs in the Nordic countries. (pdf)

This study explores the search for good quality preschool provision and the ideational foundation upon which it builds through the work of a Swedish edu-business operating preschools internationally. (pdf)

This paper reports on a textbook analysis focusing on shifts in semiotic registers when looking at fraction tasks in grades 3–6 (aged 9–12 years). Eight textbooks, from two different textbook systems, have been analysed using Duval’s theory of semiotic representations. (pdf)