Decades of research show that tests, beyond assessing student knowledge, are powerful tools for promoting learning. However, high-stakes tests can also cause stress and disengagement. To utilize tests to encourage and motivate students, we implemented a mastery-based testing system in a large-enrollment general chemistry course (N = 234).

This study investigates the types of questions pre-service early childhood teachers propose for eliciting children’s ideas about science topics. 

K-12 remote teaching is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a pedagogic practice characterised by the teachers’ spatial separation, digital technology usage, and often the involvement of a facilitator. However, little is known about how these characteristics impact the modalities of pedagogic practice. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse K-12 remote teaching in Sweden as a pedagogic…

This single-case study focuses on 91 Swedish upper secondary students’ educational encounters with a local historical archive via a place-based educational intervention.

It has been argued that successful teacher collaboration is challenging to implement in a secondary school context, where teaching is based on subjects. However, collaboration between subject teachers and special education teachers (SETs) is important, especially in promoting inclusion. This is why we wanted to determine what is included in their collaboration in Finnish secondary…

Discursive institutionalism and its contribution to curriculum research. This article develops the argument that discursive institutionalism is a constructive contribution to curriculum research. (pdf).

This article explores how teaching and play are conceptualised in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It draws upon previous research to highlight a linguistic challenge related to “the talk of” and the prevalent logic of distinction. (pdf).

Education plays a key role in democracy. Nonetheless, while Finnish teachers are positive about educating for democracy, they feel that they lack the right resources to achieve this and tend to exhibit a passive approach to participation. The study contributes to the discussion on democratic education through teachers’ reflections on remote education. (pdf).

The aim of this article is to examine how tasks and linguistic examples in upper secondary school textbooks in Swedish may contribute to students’ knowledge about, understanding of and empathy towards the Swedish national minority languages and the minority language situation. (pdf).

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).

The Swedish preschool sector, R&D programmes and ULF projects based on the didaktik ‘who’ question. The study examines the Swedish preschool sector and its governing school authorities in relation to participation in R&D programmes and ULF projects, using the didaktik ‘who’ question. (pdf).

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…