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- Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Eva, 1958, et al.
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”Business as usual”? Or transformative and transactive teaching leading towards the Agenda 2030 goals in Swedish Early Childhood Education.
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education. - 2331-0464. ; 9:1, s. 94-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, the national parliament has adopted objectives to implement the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UNESCO, 2017). Sweden’s objectives are more ambitious and far-reaching in several policy areas than the targets listed in the 2030 Agenda and outlined in the report Agenda 2030 and Sweden: Challenges and Possibilities for the Earth (SOU 2019; UNESCO, 2017). In this article, we discuss Swedish early childhood education in relation to these new national objectives. We employ a critical perspective and recognize early childhood education as both a political and educational setting, one where major and minor politics are interconnected and embedded in practice. We discuss these interconnections as a narrative inquiry scrutinizing different transformations and transactions in Swedish early childhood education practice. Our inquiry focus is an early childhood teacher case study narrative of her everyday education for sustainability (EfS) practices and the UN, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The findings revealed everyday pedagogical practices where children’s own interests, curiosities and investigations enhanced EfS as integral to transformative and transactive early childhood education. We argue that further action is required to go beyond “business as usual” and embed transformative and transactive teaching for promoting the new national objectives and global objectives as 2030 Agenda. Such teaching for sustainability builds on pedagogical strategies where both children and teachers are engaged in a collaborative critical inquiry to challenge unsustainable thinking and actions in everyday life.
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- Engdahl, Ingrid, et al.
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Swedish Teachers in the Process of Implementing Education for Sustainability in Early Childhood Education
- 2021
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Ingår i: New Ideas in Child and Educational Psychology. ; 1:1, s. 3-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background. We are living in challenging times, with an urgent need for transformation that requires new and sustainable ways of living. Young children are exposed to these global challenges. This study responds to the need for further understanding of how education for sustainability (EfS) is being handled in early childhood education (ECE). Objective. This study investigated ECE teachers in the process of implementing early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS). This was initiated by the 2019 revised Swedish National Curriculum for the preschool, where education for sustainable development is included as an overall value and objective. We based our work on a critical and transformative theoretical perspective that highlights the need for critical transformative pedagogies, with a focus on Education for Sustainability. The participating teachers were enrolled in a research and development program initiated by the Swedish institute Ifous. Design. The data presented in this article was obtained in May 2021. An initial questionnaire was emailed to all Ifous participants. One hundred fifty-three teachers (76.5%) responded. The intention of the questionnaire was twofold: first, to investigate what the teachers considered to be education for sustainability in ECE; and second, to scrutinize the teachers’ knowledge base, for the further planning of the research and development program. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results. The findings of the study showed a tendency to describe education for sustainability as “business-as-usual” rather than treating EfS as a new field, and to contend that the teachers addressed EfS before it became a compulsory task in 2019. There were few connections made to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and to the ongoing pandemic. A common trend when describing the content and activities was to divide the content into three areas, following the three dimensions of sustainability. The teachers described the physical changes and pedagogical changes made after the revision of the national curriculum. Most of the changes in the school environment seemed to be a result of priorities set at higher levels in the organizations, e.g., deleting toxic plastic and recycling food waste. Only a few of the teachers described an educational program that included transformative change. Conclusion. The teachers in the study were interested in EfS, and some articulated a longing for more knowledge about ECEfS and for transformative change. The teachers also showed the need for courage and professionalism to lead the way in finding the relevant content and activities for EfS. The teachers were struggling to find new ways to meet the demands from the governing documents especially during a planetary crisis.
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- Ledin, Per, et al.
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Play and imitation : Multimodal interaction and second language development in preschool
- 2017
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Ingår i: Mind, culture and activity. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1074-9039 .- 1532-7884. ; 24:1, s. 18-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper targets the multimodal character of children’s play and its potential for scaffolding second language development. We follow children who are newcomers to a Swedish preschool, and analyze their interactions. Play is, we argue, based on rules or tacit agreements between children, originating in the human capacity of imitation, and creates an opportunity to test out cultural patterns. Despite their limited language abilities, the children naturally engage in bodily play interactions where different objects are deployed. This can potentially underpin second language development, not least when a child or teacher with better Swedish language proficiency participates.
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- aus der Wieschen, Maria Vanessa, et al.
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Divergent language choices and maintenance of intersubjectivity : the case of Danish EFL young learners
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. - : Routledge. - 1367-0050 .- 1747-7522. ; 24:1, s. 107-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of students’ first language(s) in foreign language classrooms has been hotly debated in the last decades. Although this line of research has advanced our understanding of language choice in the L2 classroom, it has mostly dealt with adolescent and adult learners. From a contextual perspective, then, more micro-analytic research that focuses on language choice at the primary school level is needed. Against this background, this paper presents a case study of a Danish third-grade English as a foreign language classroom, in which a pattern of divergent language choices has been observed: the teacher consistently uses English, whereas the learners almost exclusively speak Danish, which might entail trouble in maintaining intersubjectivity and a joint pedagogical focus. Using Conversation Analysis methodology, we found two sequential formats that help ensure student understanding and thus maintain intersubjectivity: (1) learner translations and reformulations for peer support in expansion sequences, and (2) expansions initiated by students requesting information or clarification that display partial or no understanding. We argue that the sense-making practices co-constructed in this classroom context are possible because the teacher encourages shared multilingual meaning-making practices. This research has implications for teaching EFL to young learners, and classroom language policies.
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- Francia, Guadalupe, 1961-, et al.
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Children's rights and violence : A case analysis at a Swedish boarding school
- 2017
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Ingår i: Childhood. - : SAGE Publications. - 0907-5682 .- 1461-7013. ; 24, s. 51-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the article highlights various conceptions of violence at a Swedish boarding school and is based on a critical discourse analysis of different educational and media documents. The investigation indicates that ambitions to protect childrenfrom violence need to overcome the dichotomy of private and public in order to protect children affected by violence in the borderland between the private and public spheres.
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- Hemmi, Kirsti, et al.
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Challenging traditional classroom practices : Swedish teachers’ interplay with Finnish curriculum materials
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Curriculum Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0022-0272 .- 1366-5839. ; 51:3, s. 1-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the current paper, we present an analysis of a case study in which we have followed Swedish primary teachers who voluntarily began using translated Finnish curriculum materials, i.e. a textbook and teacher guide, in order to reform their mathematics teaching. The multifaceted data, consisting of questionnaires, interviews, protocols from collegial meetings and classroom observations, were gathered during the period 2010–2014. The analysis of the interplay within this cross-cultural setting reveals the special characteristics and the challenges existing in practice. Both the experienced and inexperienced teachers offloaded a great deal of their agency to the materials in order to become familiar with the ideas they mediated. Yet, the lack of a clear rationale behind the organization of the materials, as well as the suggested activities connected to taken-for-granted features of the Finnish teaching tradition, made fruitful interaction problematic. The changes teachers made in their classroom practice were tightly connected to the support offered in the materials, without which the teachers abandoned their new classroom patterns. Based on the results of this study, we suggest a number of general aspects that we regard as important to consider when implementing curriculum materials developed within another cultural-educational context.
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- Parker-Jenkins, Marie, et al.
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Education for the other : policy and provision for Muslim children in the UK and Swedish education systems
- 2017
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Ingår i: Compare. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0305-7925 .- 1469-3623. ; 47:2, s. 257-270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Metrics Reprints & Permissions PDFAbstractThe European Convention on Human Rights has been signed by both the UK and Sweden as well as other European states, providing legal justification for accommodating the educational needs of religious minorities. This legal entitlement is explored in the paper, with particular reference to parental choice for schools based on an Islamic ethos. How the UK and Sweden have responded to accommodate the religious convictions of Muslim families is the focus of discussion, drawing on historical and policy backgrounds. The paper also draws on the theoretical work of Kumashiro and the concept of ‘Education for the Other’, examining the positioning of minority groups within the broad context of a multicultural society and the challenge of accommodating religious convictions in a climate of increasing support for cultural assimilation.
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- Rottenberg, Débora, 1965-, et al.
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El contexto neoliberal en el alcance de la equidad propuesta por las políticas europeas de proficiencia lingüística : el caso del español en el sistema educativo sueco
- 2016
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Ingår i: PROFESORADO. - Granada (España). - 1138-414X .- 1989-6395. ; 20:02, s. 366-380
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- El propósito de este artículo es analizar y discutir las posibilidades de una implementación equitativa de las políticas europeas de proficiencia lingüística en contextos de políticas educativas de corte neoliberal.Se parte de las recomendaciones de la UE en materia de políticas de proficiencia lingüística para analizar, tomando como eje las diferentes formas de libertad de elección, los principales documentos que rigen la política educativa sueca así como la praxis concreta de los diferentesactores involucrados en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de español como lengua extranjera.Se concluye que el sistema educativo neoliberal vigente en Suecia no favorece el alcance de las recomendaciones de equidad propuestas por la UE. Esto se explica por el aumento de la libertad de elección por parte de diversos actores, lo que ha creado un estado de inestabilidad y desigualdad en las condiciones de implementación de las políticas europeas de multilingüismo.
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- Christiansen, Iben, et al.
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Opportunities to learn mathematics pedagogy and learning to teach mathematics in Swedish mathematics teacher education : A survey of student experiences
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Teacher Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0261-9768 .- 1469-5928.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A research-based teacher education rests on research on the practices of teacher education. We undertook a survey of the opportunities to learn mathematics pedagogy and to teach mathematics perceived by students in their last year of teacher education. Questionnaires were distributed to 753 students graduating in June 2020 from 13 Swedish universities, and the response rate was 11.2%. Overall, new graduates perceived good opportunities to learn mathematics pedagogy, but there were substantial variations in opportunities to learn specific competencies of teaching, such as analysing learners’ answers or leading a mathematical discussion. A similar unevenness in perceived opportunities to learn from the practicum experience was found. These results point to less-than-optimal opportunities to learn core practices of mathematics teaching. We recommend that institutions take a more systematic approach to programme coverage, and to create opportunities to use theory/research to deconstruct practice and to inform rehearsing ‘approximations of practice’ in campus-based activities.
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- Sandberg, Anette, et al.
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An Interview Study of Gender Difference in Preschool Teachers Attitudes Toward Children's Play
- 2005
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Ingår i: Early Childhood Education Journal. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1082-3301 .- 1573-1707. ; 32:5, s. 297-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate, identify and describe different ways that female and male preschool teachers conceive, understand and experience play. The research questions addressed are: What perspectives do female and male preschool teachers have on play? Are there differences in play experiences related to gender? The interview study is inspired by phenomenograhpical research. The sample consisted of ten female and ten male preschool teachers. The results show differences between female and male preschool teachers’ play willingness. This study found that male preschool teachers contribute with more playfulness, and this is something that both female and male preschool teachers noticed. Female preschool teachers tend to value calm play and emphasize the importance of social development while male preschool teachers accentuate the significance of physical development. All preschool teachers in the study emphasized that it is important to create inspiring environments for play and outdoor play.
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