Omkring 20 000 elever lämnar varje år grundskolan utan gymnasiebehörighet. En ny avhandling visar att skolans stödinsatser inte alltid når dem som behöver dem mest, och att likvärdigheten riskerar att urholkas.

Kontakten mellan föräldrar och skolpersonal har blivit allt mer intensiv med sms och samtal även efter skoltid. En ny studie från Linnéuniversitetet visar hur gränsen mellan jobb och fritid suddas ut. Hör Eva Klope, universitetslektor vid Linnéuniversitetet, en av forskarna bakom studien. (webbradio)

Forsker vil minne matematikklærere på at de kan bruke elevenes feilsvar aktivt i undervisningen.

Många barn har svårt med matematik. Sättet som barn får lära sig matematik på lågstadiet kan ställa till problem för dem senare i skolan, menar Ola Helenius, professor vid Göteborgs universitet, som har en ny metod.

In the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school) and teacher education, increasingly plurilingual student populations call for responsive plurilingual pedagogies in teacher education. This paper explores second-order didactics in plurilingual teaching combined with task-based and playful approaches in the English and French teacher education at University College Copenhagen. (pdf)

This study investigates how cultural and linguistic diversity is discursively construed in mathematics teacher education for Grades 4–6 in Sweden at policy level. Discourse analysis was used to examine 55 mathematics course syllabi and 20 educational curricula from various Swedish universities. (pdf)

As higher education places increasing demands on academic reading and writing, students with Swedish as a second language face growing linguistic and epistemic challenges due to the instructional language not being their mother tongue. (pdf)

In this study, we aimed to examine perspectives related to multilingualism as expressed by students in teacher education programmes for Swedish language teachers at three universities in Finland. (pdf)

This longitudinal study investigated 838 Finnish students’ school absenteeism (SA; sickness, truancy, and other reasons) during the primary-to-lower secondary school transition. The students (mean age = 12.3 years, girls 54.2%) were surveyed (a) spring of the sixth grade (b) autumn of the seventh grade, and (c) spring oft the seventh grade. (pdf)

Aiming to protect and advance professionals’ job interests, professional organizations play influential roles in the politics of education worldwide. However, examinations of these organizations as political actors remain limited. This study addresses this research gap by exploring the policy capacity of four professional organizations in the Norwegian education sector – specifically, the skills and resources…

The article explores the academic wellbeing of upper secondary school students in Denmark. It discusses previous conceptualizations and ways of measuring academic wellbeing and finds that the field suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity. (pdf)

A shortage of qualified, stable early childhood education and care (ECEC) personnel undermines effective service delivery and increases turnover, perpetuating negative cycles of segregation. Research has shown that recruiting ECEC educators is challenging in Finland. However, the development of recruitment difficulties and their influence on daily practices has yet to be examined. (pdf)