• The Quality Dialogue. An Activity-Theoretical Study on Systematic Quality Work in a Municipal Preschool Administration. 

  Karlsson, Marina (2024-11-14)

  Quality dialogues have become increasingly common in systematic quality work which is legally mandated by the Swedish Education Act. The present thesis aims to contribute to knowledge on quality dialogues in local education ...

• The self in the school context: Mathematics self-concept and self-efficacy in PISA 

  Ding, Yi (2024-09-18)

  Self-concept and self-efficacy are important constructs in educational psychology, defining an individual’s general perception of their abilities in school subjects and belief in accomplishing specific tasks. These ...

• Skrivundervisning i svenska som andraspråk inom vuxenutbildning 

  Palm, Clara (2024-09-05)

  I dagens globaliserade värld är behovet stort för många vuxna att lära sig tala, läsa, skriva och förstå nya språk. För att lära sig svenska, till exempel, erbjuder Sveriges kommuner språkutbildning i form av svenska som ...

• Lärares lärande i gränslandet mellan skolans och vetenskapens praktiker – Aktionsforskning som socialt lärande 

  Johannesson, Peter (2024-05-23)

  The study aims at deepening the knowledge about how teachers learn as they collaborate to improve their teaching practices through action research. The research questions are as follows: How does teachers’ professional ...

• Individualising processes in adult education: The case of Swedish for immigrants (SFI) 

  Papadopoulos, Dimitrios (2024-03-14)

  Adapting education to individual students is a prominent demand in the context of Swedish for immigrants (SFI). Teachers, schools, and municipal authorities are expected to establish educational frameworks corresponding ...

• Young students’ Language Choice in Swedish compulsory school – expectations, learning and assessment 

  Finndahl, Ingela (2023-04-05)

  The second foreign language, referred to as Modern Languages in the Swedish curriculum, begins no later than year 6 in compulsory school. Swedish students normally make their Language Choice (in Swedish “Språkval”) in year ...

• Teacher sorting and the opportunity gap: a cross-national investigation of institutional differentiation and educational equity 

  Glassow, Leah Natasha

  Inequitable access to teacher competence (‘teacher sorting’ or the teacher ‘opportunity gap’) is increasingly the focus of international educational bodies worldwide but is still relatively underexplored empirically. The ...

• Everyday Language Practices and the Interplay of Ideologies, Investment and Identities - Out-of-School Language Use and Dispositions among Young Adolescents in Multilingual Urban Settings in Sweden 

  Bylund, Jasmine (2022-11-11)

  This thesis explores the out-of-school language use of young adolescents in contemporary multilingual urban neighborhoods, located in the three largest cities in Sweden. More specifically, the thesis explores the potential ...

• Linking Recent and Older IEA Studies on Mathematics and Science 

  Majoros, Erika (2022-09-09)

  The purpose of this thesis was to develop procedures that allow researchers to make reasonable comparisons of grade-eight mathematics and science achievement and motivation scales over a long time period, despite changes ...

• Learning Principalship: Becoming a Principal in a Swedish Context 

  Jerdborg, Stina (2022-04-26)

  Novice principals are expected to acquire professional skills by participating in education. Consequently, expectations are set for principal education to support novice principals in how to take on principalship. The aim ...

• Digital studentkultur Om slutna grupper på Facebook som icke-formell arena i högre utbildning 

  Alexandra, Söderman (2022-03-31)

  Sedan Facebook lanserades i Sverige 2006 har plattformen vuxit dramatiskt och utgör numer det dominerande sociala mediet även för svenska studenter. I tidigare forskning har fokus i hög grad riktats mot möjliga pedagogiska ...

• Exploring socioeconomic inequality in educational opportunity and outcomes in Sweden and beyond 

  Rolfe, Victoria (2021-05-17)

  This doctoral thesis aims to explore Sweden’s achievement gap in international assessment and how this may have developed in the context of a network of educational inequalities. Theoretically grounded in the Model of ...

• Den synliggjorda vokabulären och praktiken – gymnasieelevers akademiska skrivande på svenska 

  Ohlsson, Elisabeth (2021-05-07)

  The thesis includes three studies and a kappa and it has a twofold focus; the first is on vocabulary, as the relevance of vocabulary skills is increasingly important, not least for writing in academic contexts. The second ...

• Samtal under lärarlagsmöten. Diskursorienteringar i den professionella praktiken 

  Norrström, Anna (2021-03-25)

  Teacher team meetings are potential arenas for professional communication, but such meetings take many different forms and cannot automatically be viewed as forums for constructive communication. The aim of this study is ...

• Stability and Change 

  Mellén, Johanna (2021-03-10)

  The key role Swedish upper secondary education plays in differentiating between higher education and labour market sectors has been discussed from an equality perspective over the last 60 years. Despite political incentives ...

• Barbiebröllop och Homohundar. Barn och barndomar i relation till queerhet och (hetero)normativa livslinjer 

  Sotevik, Lena (2021-01-15)

  This dissertation investigates relations between sexualities, children and childhoods by examining the following questions: How are heteronormativity and normative life courses repeated, negotiated and challenged by children? ...

• Val-omröstning-styrning. En etnografisk studie om intentioner med, villkor för och utfall av barns inflytande i förskolan 

  Peterson, Carina (2020-05-04)

  This thesis takes its point of departure in an interest in exploring how children’s participation is expressed in policy texts as well as in preschool practice. Participation can be viewed as a discourse of considerable ...

• Teachers meeting the challenges of the Swedish school system. Agents within boundaries 

  Toropova, Anna (2020-02-06)

  There are many factors that may contribute to explaining variation in teacher quality, which is the key to the schools’ success. These factors include not only teacher characteristics, but also conditions of the teachers’ ...

• Unpacking dominant discourses in higher education language policy 

  Strömberg Jämsvi, Susanne (2019-09-06)

  The overall purpose of the thesis is to investigate dominant discourses operating in the changing of HE concerning questions of language policy. It has been studied at a national level, analysing reports and government ...

• Teachers' work in times of restructuring: On contextual influences for collegiality and professionality. 

  Samuelsson, Katarina (2019-04-18)

  The research in this thesis is situated in the intersection of teachers’ work and contexts of education. It departs from an interest in contextual influences on teachers’ work and professionality under restructuring. It ...

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