• 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 ...

• School choice, space and the geography of marketization- Analyses of educational restructuring in upper secondary education in Sweden 

  Fjellman, Anna-Maria (2019-01-17)

  The main aim of the dissertation is to investigate, analyze and create a research-based understanding of the spatialities of the Swedish school choice in upper secondary education using a socio-spatial framework. The ...

• Investigating and Validating Spoken Interactional Competence: Rater Perspectives on a Swedish National Test of English 

  Borger, Linda (2018-11-13)

  This thesis aims to explore different aspects of validity evidence from the raters’ perspective in relation to a paired speaking test, part of a high-stakes national test of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Swedish ...

• Student experience of vocational becoming in upper secondary vocational education and training. Navigating by feedback. 

  Wyszynska Johansson, Martina (2018-09-27)

  This doctoral thesis explores student experience of vocational becoming, particularly the navigational role of feedback in the process for Swedish upper secondary vocational students. Vocational becoming is explored as ...

• Lärarperspektiv på läsförståelse. En intervjustudie om undervisning i årskurs 4-6. 

  Eckerholm, Lena (2018-04-04)

  Abstract Title: Teacher perspective on reading comprehension. An Interview Study on Education in Grades 4-6 Author: Lena Eckerholm, 2018. Language: Swedish with an English summary. ISBN: 978-91-7346-959-3 ...

• Moraliskt arbete i förskolan. Regler och moralisk ordning i barn-barn och vuxen-barn interaktion. 

  Karlsson, Magnus (2018-03-27)

  At a general level, the present thesis addresses the situated and practical character of morality in everyday life. More specifically, this study investigates moral work-in-interaction between children, and between children ...

• Gymnasielärares mentorshandlingar. En verksamhetsteoretisk studie om lärararbete i förändring 

  Wallström, Helena (2018-02-23)

  This thesis sheds light on Swedish teachers’ work in upper secondary school during times of restructuring. The aim of the study is to examine what teachers try to accomplish in their activities besides classroom teaching, ...

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