School leader turnover affects school stability, staff cohesion, and student outcomes. While stress and workload are well-documented factors, fewer studies examine school-specific conditions influencing leaders’ decisions to leave. Through qualitative interviews with former school leaders, this study identifies two key themes: fragmentation and pressure, encompassing institutional and organizational conditions, as well as operational and leadership demands. (pdf)

Distributed leadership (DL) has gained importance in educational leadership research, especially in Western (mainly Anglo-American) contexts. This study explores DL’s conceptualization and enactment in the Muslim world through a meta-synthesis of existing qualitative studies, addressing the need for broader cultural perspectives. (pdf)

School governance is a contested concept due to ongoing disagreements over its meaning and application, particularly in education sub-fields like leadership, management, and administration (ELMA). Aware of global efforts to differentiate ELMA’s knowledge base, this paper critically reviews school governance literature from 2000 to 2023. (pdf)

The study is part of a three-year project aimed at analysing inclusive practices and strategies among teachers as it concerns students’ individual needs. This study focuses on a specific inclusive strategy – peer learning (PL). The aim was to identify the strategies teachers use to engage all students in peer learning activities and to examine…

The growing problem of misinformation underscores the importance of teaching civic information criticism as a part of citizenship education. To support students’ abilities to participate in democracy, it is central today to address issues of free speech, free press, and protection against harmful misinformation in education. (pdf)

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…

En majoritet av svenskarna tycker att skolans viktigaste uppgift är att fostra demokratiska medborgare, visar en studie. Forskare tycker att debatten om skolan behöver bli mer saklig och mindre fixerad vid betyg och konkurrens.

Penn og papir har for lengst fått konkurranse. – Det gir både nye muligheter og utfordringer, sier forsker.

Elevernas självförtroende i matematik har ett starkare samband med deras prestation i ämnet än vad deras socioekonomiska bakgrund har. Den slutsatsen drar Lena Asp efter en analys av hur 4 000 fjärdeklassare i Sverige upplever undervisningen och sin lärandemiljö i matematik.

Unga personer vill hellre ha stöd av föräldrar eller kompisar än av vården, visar preliminära resultat av en stor studie från Karolinska institutet.

Blant unge som fikk mobil før skolestart, rapporterer langt flere om selvmordstanker, ifølge ny forskning. – Det er særlig innholdet i sosiale medier som vekker bekymring, sier ekspert om unges digitale hverdag.

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.