Blivande klasslärare presterar allt sämre i matematik, visar en magisteravhandling vid Åbo akademi i Finland. Aida Ohtonen, forskare och lärarutbildare, har granskat hur lärarstudenterna under de senaste 30 åren klarat ett enkelt matematiktest.

The aim of this article is to investigate Norwegian science teacher educators’ views of the master’s thesis and the supervision process in connection with the recent change to five-year master’s programmes.

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 issues experienced by teacher educators in the university sector in the academic year 2021–2022, including the outcomes of the Market Review and Ofsted inspection, and the impact on wellbeing and workload.

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.

This exploratory paper contributes to the literature on European Union (EU) soft governance by discussing the recent EU policy initiative “Erasmus+ Teacher Academies” as a case of experimentalist governance. Asking what makes this initiative a case of experimentalist governance, the paper demonstrates how it constitutes an experiment in terms of governance as well as the…

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.

Musiklärarutbildningen är en tungrodd apparat, enligt forskaren Lena Ostendorf. Hon har identifierat tre olika och konkurrerande ideal som ger en bild av vad den sega utvecklingen kan bero på.

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.