In many welfare states around the world, including Sweden, a central goalof education is to compensate for the influence of family background onacademic outcomes and ensure equal opportunities for all. While thisrelationship is well documented in core subjects, less is known abouthow family background shapes achievement in physical education andhealth (PEH) – a subject aimed…

School health educational content often entails different subject areas and a variety of topics that students are supposed to learn, and when taught in diverse classrooms, potentially positions students as at-risk. Using vignettes in interviews with migrant students in Sweden, the study focuses on views of the content of health education in relation to different…

Different educational systems, especially in highly accountable and so-called soft accountability systems place varying expectations on teachers. This study examines how different approaches to school accountability shape perceived roles and responsibilities by teachers. The study was conducted using the discursive dislocation method whereby four English and four Finnish teachers observed each other’s work in authentic…

This article focuses on the role of the principal in facilitating inclusive education policies in Sweden and Finland since 1990. It does so by analysing education union journals in both countries. (pdf)

This qualitative small-scale study aimed to better understand practitioner perspectives and experiences relating to barriers, guidance and support systems associated with children and young people's mental health within the primary classroom. (pdf)

Transitions between stages of schooling present well-known challenges for children with special educational needs and disabilities, including navigating new sites, people, practices, timetables and expectations. Site visits are often recommended for helping with transition, and yet such visits can be difficult to achieve for practical and logistical reasons. This study piloted the development of virtual…

The article describes a process where neurodivergent learners in a hostile environment learn to regulate and restrict their own behaviours, often without the provision noticing their distress and continuing to deliver inappropriate support, while misattributing blame to parents. (pdf)

Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on…

Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession. This paper provides a conceptual synthesis, distilling what we know into a single interdisciplinary model…

Within the educational literature, inter-organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence. Adopting this perspective can provide insights into the possibility that schools are engaging unevenly in inter-organisational networks, with some…

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted families with young children (age 0-5). Using a subset of data from the randomized clinical trial of an integrated, preventive parenting model, Smart Beginnings (SB), this study examined associations between COVID-19-related school disruptions in early childhood education (ECE) and children’s early elementary school outcomes. (pdf)

I denne teksten anvender jeg en diskursanalyse, primært basert på analytiske begreper fra Norman Fairclough samt Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffe, for å undersøke hvordan barnehagebarnet i Norge seksualiseres av en seksualiserende diskurs som definerer barnet som et seksuelt subjekt. (pdf)