Swedish preschool teacher education is finalised by a degree project, resulting in a thesis at bachelor level. This study focuses on student preschool teachers’ expressed experiences of thematic teaching, including science, during their degree projects involving both the older and the youngest children in preschool. (pdf)

I Sverige har alla barn enligt barnkonventionen rätt att fritt delta i det konstnärliga livet där musik ingår som en del. Med förskolor som ofta saknar musikkunnig personal blir det konstnärliga livet i förskolan begränsat. Därför är det av stor vikt att morgondagens förskollärare redan i sin utbildning får möjlighet att utvidga sin kompetens inom…

This paper presents a thematic analysis of the experiences of a group of teacher educators and student teachers during an action research project that examined how collaborative learning can be fostered in online mathematics teacher education. (pdf)

Erfarenheterna från verksamhetsförlagd utbildning (VFU) utomlands gav lärarstudenten Tilda Fransson nya perspektiv i lärarrollen. För studenter som funderar på att resa utomlands har hon ett tydligt råd: "Våga testa, men var ute i god tid och se till att allt är klart på papper. Det är mycket jobb runt omkring – men det är värt…

En forskarskola om ämnesdidaktiska modeller i grundlärarutbildningen ska fördjupa lärarutbildares kunskaper om ämnesdidaktiska modeller. Syftet är att lärarutbildare ska kunna ge grundlärarstudenter en stabilare vetenskaplig bas för att genomföra god ämnesundervisning.

At a writing retreat in the middle of the woods, we considered the trees. Inspired by our surroundings, we discussed possibilities for how we might demonstrate an inquiry cycle with our undergraduate teacher candidates. (pdf)

Johan Hyrén vid Högskolan Väst skriver om vad som krävs för att bli en bra lärare. Han undervisar lärarstudenter i samhällskunskap och forskar parallellt i statsvetenskap.

Research on student-active learning emphasises that engagement is crucial for developing competence. Yet, how engagement and study habits, especially lesson preparation and self-study, affect students’ perceived competence over time remains unclear. This study investigates these relationships in a flipped classroom mathematics course for early childhood teacher education in Norway. (pdf).

This study furthers the understanding of how student teachers make didactic choices when designing digital competence education. It investigates what age groups student teachers choose to include in digital competence education, how they motivate these choices, and how their choices can be understood within the context of the university course in which they designed this…

Practice-oriented research and research base in teacher education. A discourse analytical case study. The aim of the article is to analyse how a discourse focusing on practice-oriented research as a tool to develop the research base in teacher education emerges in Swedish national educational policy and is transformed at a local university level. (pdf).

Teaching practice periods are a vital part of subject teacher education, and school-based teacher educators are crucial actors in the professional development of student teachers. Using a cross-sectional survey, we collected quantitative data from a rarely studied teacher educator group, namely, Finnish subject teacher educators (N = 118) in university teacher training schools.