This qualitative study focuses on the ways kindergarten teachers used metaphors as a professional coping strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is underpinned by the conceptual metaphor theory, analyzing these metaphors as evident of the verbalized expressions of 74 kindergarten teachers in northern Israel, via questionnaires and interviews. Findings indicate that the metaphors enabled…

The covid pandemic has significantly impacted families with young children (age 0-5). This study examined associations between covid-related school disruptions in early childhood education and children’s early elementary school outcomes (pdf).

This article contributes to understanding school attendance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and Sweden. Sweden presents a unique European case, as compulsory schools largely remained open with only brief closures, while Germany, opted for extended school closures. (pdf).

Analysen visar att distansundervisningen inte hade någon negativ inverkan vare sig på prestationerna på de nationella proven eller på övergången till nationella program på gymnasiet. I vissa fall finner vi snarare positiva effekter, vilka kan drivas av att skolor med distansundervisning hade lättare att upprätthålla undervisning under perioder med hög frånvaro bland lärare och elever.…

Elever på skolor som hade viss distansundervisning under covid-19-pandemin klarade de nationella proven i årskurs 9 lika bra som elever på skolor utan distansundervisning. Det visar en ny studie från IFAU.

Plötsligt blev det omöjliga möjligt och skolor fick fart på anpassningarna. En ny studie visar att många föräldrar till barn med funktionsnedsättningar upplevde en ljusning under pandemin.

This article focuses on the participant ideals that emerged in the Swedish folkhögskola (‘adult education folk high school’) during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of these schools’ activities transitioned to distance learning following the restrictions imposed by the Public Health Agency of Sweden. (pdf).

In this paper, we use the lens of complexity theory and in particular the constructs of agents, interaction, dispersed control, and emergence to describe top-down and bottom-up mechanisms for change within the sudden shift to emergency remote teaching and learning. (pdf)

Efter pandemin förväntas universitetslärare kunna undervisa både på plats och på distans, något som kan påverka undervisningens kvalitet. Nu menar forskare att lärarna behöver få bättre möjlighet att fokusera på undervisningens kärna – innehållet.

The objective was to examine trends in low school satisfaction between 1994 and 2022 among 11–15-year-old students in Denmark according to sex, grade, and socioeconomic status. We focused on trends before and after a major school reform in 2014, and before and after COVID-19-related school closures 2020-2021. 

This research identifies new approaches to education health and care plan (EHCP) provision since the start of the Covid-19 (C-19) pandemic (March 2020 to March 2021). This qualitative research was conducted after the C-19 pandemic and used online questionnaires to identify the perceptions of 64 SENCos recruited from mainstream primary and secondary schools across southeast…

Strenge restriksjoner under koronapandemien transformerte barnehagers hverdagsliv, noe som medførte endringer i handlings- og samhandlingsmønstre. Artikkelen presenterer deler av et forskningsprosjekt om konsekvensene av pandemien for barnehagesektoren gjennomført i 2020/2022.