This article explores how participants in preparatory courses for further and higher education at Swedish folkhögskolor (adult education folk high schools) perceive their studies. It aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of their experiences within this unique educational context. (pdf).

This article focuses on the participant ideals that emerged in the Swedish folkhögskola (‘adult education folk high school’) during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of these schools’ activities transitioned to distance learning following the restrictions imposed by the Public Health Agency of Sweden. (pdf).

The aim of this study is to explore the makeup of teacher education programs for the language and literature school subjects Swedish (SWE) and Swedish as a Second Language (SSL) in upper secondary teacher education. (pdf)

This study aims to investigate, analyze, and explain how the indoor physical learning environment constitutes opportunities and constraints from the pupils’ perspectives. (pdf).

The current study aimed to validate the Finnish student version of the PIQ (PIQ-Fin) using primary school data. A total of 621 Finnish students aged 10–13 in mainstream classrooms participated in this study.

The article explores how students in a linguistically and ethnically diverse neighbourhood are constructed and positioned by school professionals, and how this influences teaching and other school practices.

This article introduces and illustrates Lesson Design Workshops (LDW), a methodology for theory-practice bridging in education.

This study aims to explore what ambitious mathematics instructional practices are carried out in the classroom during a national-scale mathematics teacher professional development program and investigate the variability in use of those practices. 

The qualitative study examines the discourses that preservice teachers of early education utilize when negotiating their teacher identity. The study has found three discourses: therapeutic, entrepreneurial, and crisis.

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.

Using children’s literature in different formats is a well-established pedagogical approach for discussing existential questions with young children. This study analyses two books: Goodbye, Mr. Muffin and The Visit from Little Death. The linguistic and visual analyses shed light on the narrative structures, participant roles, and various semiotic elements in these books.

Contemporary currents in school leadership increasingly focus on collaboration and participation. In Sweden, notions of “communal pedagogical leadership” emphasize teachers’ roles in shaping the desired school, introducing Collaborative Professional Learning (CPL) as an organizational necessity. This article provides a governmentality analysis of CPL manuals from 2019 to 2022, exploring the rationalities employed in its framework…