Increase in immigration in Europe, including many migrants of school age, has highlighted the need to understand how best to support migrant students’ integration. Integration strategies vary significantly between countries, resulting in a complex mosaic of approaches that is difficult to analyze. Educational policies are shaped by a range of policy choices made by local…

The benefits of cooperation between school and parents for students’ well-being, learning, and academic development are widely acknowledged. However, schools often face challenges in establishing cooperative relations with parents, and teachers sometimes perceive interactions with parents as burdensome. Despite its assumed relevance in shaping parent-teacher relationships, the legal framework has received little attention in the…

The aim of this study is to obtain an overview of the literature on multi-criteria decision-making methods in educational research, to map the literature, to identify existing knowledge and application areas, to reveal the methods used and their purposes of use, and to reveal the thematic structure of the field. (pdf)

This study discusses the experiences of a group of new teachers in England since the introduction of the Early Career Framework (ECF), against the backdrop of the global teacher recruitment and retention crisis. (pdf)

In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. (pdf)

The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge about early childhood education and care personnel's perception of the support structures that are most effective in assisting them in their work with culturally and linguistically diverse children. This qualitative case-based study examined one of Finland's most culturally diverse regions. (pdf) 

Mass media is a powerful social institution that establishes dominant discourses about social practices. This study is a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two TV series depicting the Swedish school system, broadcast by the Swedish public service broadcasting company. The study aims to critically examine the discursive construction of the Swedish school as it evolves…

School has been identified as a suitable arena for targeting improvements in the health of children and young people. Teachers are highlighted as crucial contributors to student health which has resulted in changes in the teaching profession. The aim of this study is to examine the students’ perspective on the role of the teacher in…

This paper explores the development of Finnish standard negation in an 11-year-old L1 Russian-speaking child during oral interaction in a primary school introductory class. (pdf)

Tvungne migranter til Norge har «rett og plikt» til å delta i det norske Introduksjonsprogrammet. Dette programmet har som formål å gi nyankomne innvandrere norskkunnskaper og annen kompetanse som regnes som grunnleggende for å delta i det norske samfunn og arbeidsliv. Med utgangspunkt i data fra et etnografisk prosjekt hvor språklæringen til flyktninger fra Den…

I denne artikkelen utforsker jeg hvordan sju nyankomne elever med migrantbakgrunn opplever læringsrom hvor de kan delta, og jeg diskuterer forhold som påvirker deltakelsen. Elevene i studien er fra ti til tolv år gamle og går i to mottaksklasser i en storby i Norge. Formålet med artikkelen er å undersøke nyankomne elevers sosiale og faglige…

Systematic quality work, SQW, has become a large part of principals’ work in preschools. This study investigates principals’ priorities in SQW in preschools and identifies measures they implement to reach quality and improvement goals.