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…

Varför är det så svårt att vara lärare? I en ny bok vill forskaren Birgit Schaffar väcka tankar kring hur pedagogiken, istället för att anpassas till de politiska vindar som blåser, kan bli en befriande verksamhet.

The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats.…