Lektionen börjar med ett skräckscenario. Svenskläraren Sara Johansson läser högt ur en skönlitterär text som börjar med att Anton, 15, som nyss mist sin älskade hund, på en fest blir vittne till hur en av de tuffa killarna misshandlar en chihuahua. Efteråt ger Anton killen en high five.

Psykologi har funnits på skolschemat i 200 år. Men ofta i en undanskymd roll. "Nu är det viktigare än någonsin att ge ämnet en mer framskjuten plats", anser ämnesläraren och forskaren Ebba Christina Blåvarg som studerat psykologiämnets utveckling sedan 1960-talet.

Rapporten Global Youth Resilience Index utforskar de mångfacetterade aspekterna av 4000 ungdomars resiliens – som självförtroende, negativ kognition, sociala färdigheter och anknytning till familj, vänner och skola i olika kulturer.

This position paper argues that creative writing can be a fruitful tool for cultural responsiveness in secondary education and calls for creative writing to be viewed as a more natural part of language teachers’ culturally responsive pedagogical repertoire. (pdf)

The aim of this position paper is to explore what culturally empowering education is and how it relates to mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden.

With large-scale migration, nations, communities, and schools find themselves urgently needing to address issues of diversity. (pdf)

In this position paper, I argue that it is necessary for educators to engage with non-essentialist understandings of language and multi-sided perspectives on multilingualism to develop pedagogies that are empowering for multilingual youth in Sweden. (pdf)

The study examined how legislators, central bureaucrats, and teachers interpret the Swedish School Act's formulation that education should be based on science. A special focus was on education about values.

This study contributes to the sparse research by asking: What characterizes the openings of 58 reading lessons in Norwegian language arts 8th grade classrooms? A key finding is that in most openings, the teachers make academic cognitive moves which help create an academic frame around students’ learning.

School stress is widespread among students’ worldwide, impacting academic success and mental health. Most research focuses on average stress levels but lacks insights into temporal trends and inequalities.

Preparing student teachers for a profession that continuously changes in relation to digitalisation is a global challenge.

Linguistic diversity creates both opportunities and challenges for peer relations in today’s classrooms. However, how class linguistic diversity relates to peer relations as a dimension of classroom social climate and its relation to academic achievement is unclear.