The extended basic education programme in Norway was initiated to promote integration, majority language acquisition and academic achievement of newly arrived migrant students (NAMSs) as a preparation for mainstream upper secondary education. Theoretically rooted in critical policy analysis and empirically based on semi-structured interviews with principals and programme leaders in three schools in Oslo, the…

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…

Artikeln analyserar de 52 remissvar som lämnades in relaterat till utredningen Stärkt kvalitet och likvärdighet i fritidshem och pedagogisk omsorg (SOU 2020:34). Syftet är att, med hjälp av politisk diskursanalys, identifiera de argumenterande diskurser som remissinstanserna uttrycker angående utredningens förslag om fritidshemmets kompensatoriska uppdrag och dess möjligheter att bidra till en likvärdig utbildning samt hur…

Bristen på behöriga lärare har det senaste decenniet varit ett allvarligt samhällsproblem. Orsakerna till den uppkomna bristsituationen beskrivs på olika sätt beroende på avsändare. Den här artikeln har, med utgångspunkt i Arbetskraftsbarometern under de senaste 50 åren, granskat kontinuitet och variationer vad avser tillgång och brist på lärare i F-6, samt troliga samband mellan olika…

Technology usage in rural schools has benefits that can lead us to undercount the costs. While technology has proven useful in facilitating learning that is impossible to facilitate in rural schools, it has also been used indiscriminately. When we stop looking at rural schools solely through a deficit lens, we see that rural schools have…

Skolans nuvarande sätt att fungera utestänger vissa barn – redan vid skolstarten. En ny avhandling vid Stockholms universitet argumenterar för att den gamla visionen om en skola för alla, det vill säga en och samma utbildningsform för alla barn, utifrån en åldersbaserad sortering, är förlegad och behöver överges.

Despite the recognition of the local education administration (LEA) as a pivotal actor in the enhancement of quality, previous research incorporating both the LEA and school principals remains scarce. The current study aims to enhance the understanding of different types of discursive contradictions in collaboration and explore the possible consequences of contradictions between the LEA…

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 (SVT) before the 2022 election. (pdf).

This article presents a systematic literature review to analyse the knowledge contributions of research in Sweden as to how educational leaders are addressing interculturalism in schools.

Anette Jahnke, forskare, process/projektledare, Ifous, reflekterar kring lärarens och elevens roll i de idéer till läroplan som nyligen presenterats i regeringens utredning.

Soft governance in the Swedish school system permits local education authorities to design their own models for systematic quality work (SQW). National policy emphasizes systematization and continuity and also recommends participation and dialogue with principals. This study aims to contribute knowledge about how soft governance in SQW plays out at the LEA level. 

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…