The study investigates some of the influential discourses within the contemporary early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector regarding spirituality of young children. We ask: what discourses regarding spirituality in professional publications streams have been evident during the past seven years? And what may be the impact of these discourses on practice in the early…

The aim of this study was to investigate the subject offerings of early childhood degrees from Australian universities and to narratively analyze the content of subject descriptions and subject overviews related to physical development.

This paper addresses how a process of decolonising an initial teacher education (ITE) curriculum, and decolonising our minds, can help academics and teacher educators to think differently about engaging with anti-racist practice and professional learning within their own institutions.

This study examines 11 students enrolled in a teacher program specializing in school-age educare (grundlärare i fritidshem). School-age educare students exhibit a notable gender balance and many come from low-level educational and/or migrant backgrounds, leading to an exploration into the (re)production of class and gender dynamics.

Matti Karlström har en lång bakgrund som grundskollärare i matematik och naturvetenskap och har även arbetat som lärarutbildare i naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik de senaste 15 åren. I slutet av maj disputerade han på sin avhandling om didaktisk modellering.

This study investigated ECE teacher students’ perceptions of the practicum work community’s significance for their professional development.

To understand what to improve in initial teacher education to better prepare teachers for their profession, we asked alumni (N = 93) from three Swedish initial teacher education programs, what in their education they thought had benefited them the most in preparing them for a teaching career, and what they thought was lacking given their professional needs.

In teacher education mentoring pre-service teachers is a critical factor. With background in research around mentoring pre-service teachers in connection to a training school project, this study aims to contribute knowledge about and identify mentors’ experiences of mentorship in the setting of a training school.

På senare år har lärarstudenter från många av landets lärosäten vittnat om bristande läs-och-skrivundervisning för blivande F-3-lärare, alltså för dem som ska lära barn i förskoleklass till årskurs 3 att läsa och skriva. Det skriver Magnus Haake och Agneta Gulz, docent respektive professor i kognitionsvetenskap med inriktning på lärande och undervisning vid Lunds universitet.

I en mer komplex och orolig värld behöver blivande förskollärare bli mer förberedda inför att undervisa kring normer som rör samtid, religion och världsbilder. Vad är deras egen världsbild kontra samhällets baserat på kunskap och vetenskap? Känner de sig inkluderade i sättet som det undervisas på förskollärarprogrammet inom det här området? En ny nationell studie…

This study aims to investigate how the courses in didactics of mathematics in preschool and primary teacher education create conditions for preservice teachers to develop professional knowledge in an interactive learning process that integrates the knowledge domains of mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogical mathematical knowledge.

This article focuses on workplace learning for newly qualified teachers’ (NQTs), a learning that is integrated in the processes and experiences gained through work.