In this article, we analyse overarching patterns of social stratification in, and quality differences between, Swedish preschools.

En del av svenska förskollärares uppdrag innebär sedan år 2018 att leda arbetslagets gemensamma arbete i förskolan. Ur ett historiskt perspektiv har den svenska förskolan karaktäriserats av en demokratisk och platt organisationsstruktur, där förskollärare och barnskötare delat ansvaret lika inom arbetslaget. Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om förskollärares föreställningar om sitt ledarskapsuppdrag…

This article sheds light on governance mechanisms at work when decentralised implementation of national educational and welfare policies encounters a heterogeneous sector of private service provider organisations.

I följande studie undersöks hur pedagoger beskriver sitt eget lärande och sin identitetsutveckling i ljuset av införandet av en ny typ av föräldrasamtal. Föräldrasamtalen som genomförts har skett på gruppnivå med föräldragrupper istället för de traditionella utvecklingssamtalen.

This study explores the different ways in which Swedish municipalities act as quasi-market organisers in the preschool setting. Following organisational theory, we analyse their market shaping activities in translating national regulations in efforts to influence, support and control their local preschool quasi-market.

In this context, this study examines how the growth of the private education industry within the education system has influenced preschool principals’ work in Iceland. Our critical theoretical perspective aims to explore how educational trends grounded in neoliberalism have shaped the work of preschool principals.

This article examines how public welfare institutions in Denmark are reconfigured into knowledge factories. Since the 1990s, Denmark has sought to export “welfare” solutions as a way of extracting knowledge on social practices already happening in institutions of the welfare state for economic purposes.

This study targets hitherto largely understudied empirical processes and activities through which certain ideas and imaginaries are being commercialised and used by corporate actors in the global Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) industry. The aim is to analyse and critically discuss representations of the Scandinavian ECEC regime in the context of ECEC export.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of an online training programme comprising the main paradigms and resources of the Zones of Regulation™ curriculum on teachers' sense of self-efficacy when managing autistic pupils' self-regulation needs in the mainstream primary school classroom.

The results indicate that there is a mismatch between what the staff consider as impactful CPD and the CPD to which they have most access. School leaders and SENCos are key people in delivering CPD in schools, and the findings of this study show that it is important to provide them with appropriate skills and…

This article contributes to the understanding of the potential of digital curriculum support instruments to shape relations between hard and soft modes of governance.

Artikeln gör en jämförande undersökning av ramvillkoren i finska, norska och svenska nationella läroplaner för barns existentiella och religiösa funderingar i förskolan.