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View article: Capturing Remote Online Teaching Practices within Swedish as a Second Language Context through the Lens of TPACK
Capturing Remote Online Teaching Practices within Swedish as a Second Language Context through the Lens of TPACK Open
This article investigates the adoption of remote teaching practices within Swedish as a second language courses in adult education, with a focus on teachers´ experiences during and after emergency transition to remote teaching. With the ai…
View article: Tools for Learning—Promoting Reflection for Student Teachers' Development of PCK
Tools for Learning—Promoting Reflection for Student Teachers' Development of PCK Open
This paper investigates how the coherent integration of three different tools for reflection during a science methods course can contribute to student teachers' planning and enactment of science teaching, that is, their development of peda…
View article: Exploring students’ experience of ChatGPT in STEM education
Exploring students’ experience of ChatGPT in STEM education Open
The rapid advances in AI technologies showed a disruptive potential in educational practices, presenting new challenges and generating new opportunities. This phenomenon has been exacerbated since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, which has …
View article: Building teacher knowledge and identity– career changers´ transition into teaching through a short teacher education programme
Building teacher knowledge and identity– career changers´ transition into teaching through a short teacher education programme Open
High-quality teacher education plays a crucial role in the develop-ment of successful educational systems around the world. However,educational systems face challenges in relation to attracting andretaining excellent teachers. To meet teac…
View article: What and why in teaching about sustainability
What and why in teaching about sustainability Open
Education has responded to global Sustainable Development (SD) goals by drawing on a range of issue-related, context-based, and cross-curricular approaches to teaching SD. This paper aims to examine how teachers describe the content in SD …
View article: Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education Open
The pursuit of sustainable development is a necessity for life on Earth and the future of humanity. Education is important in this endeavour; therefore, creating knowledge about teachers' teaching for sustainable development is essential. …
View article: Teachers’ Considerations for a Digitalised Learning Context of Preschool Science
Teachers’ Considerations for a Digitalised Learning Context of Preschool Science Open
This study investigates preschool teachers’ considerations for including digital tools in science teaching to develop children’s learning of science content. Due to the ongoing digitalisation and demands in society, the utilisation of digi…
View article: Surviving or thriving? Exploring school leaders’ perception of initiated digital transformation
Surviving or thriving? Exploring school leaders’ perception of initiated digital transformation Open
The global pandemic, COVID-19 shattered everyday life as we know it and disrupted education globally. In this study, we explore an initiated digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic from school leaders’ perspectives in the contex…
View article: Exploring technostress in disruptive teaching practices
Exploring technostress in disruptive teaching practices Open
Purpose In this study, the authors explore teachers' experiences of work during the pandemic using the analytic lens of technostress. More specifically, the authors investigate how the sudden transition to distance education induces techno…
View article: Capturing student teachers’ TPACK by using T-CoRe and video-annotation as self-reflective tools for flexible learning in teacher education
Capturing student teachers’ TPACK by using T-CoRe and video-annotation as self-reflective tools for flexible learning in teacher education Open
The aim was to investigate how a reflective tool, the T-CoRe, in combination with annotated self-recorded videos and reflective writing, could be used to capture student teachers' knowledge of digital technology use in their teaching. The …
View article: A social semiotic lens to capture meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling in chemistry education
A social semiotic lens to capture meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling in chemistry education Open
This study investigated students’ meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling and discuss students’ creation of visible representations in chemistry. The analysis combines a phenomenographic and social semiotic approach and leads…
View article: From PCK to TPACK - Supporting student teachers’ reflections and use of digital technologies in science teaching
From PCK to TPACK - Supporting student teachers’ reflections and use of digital technologies in science teaching Open
Background: This paper builds on the growing focus on learning about teaching science with digital technologies, and the relationship between different elements that constitute teacher knowledge and how these are captured and understood du…
View article: Modelling as a Tool to Improve Second Language Learners’ Descriptions of Non-Spontaneous Chemistry Concepts
Modelling as a Tool to Improve Second Language Learners’ Descriptions of Non-Spontaneous Chemistry Concepts Open
This study investigated how modelling in chemistry affect second language learners’ descriptions of polymeric concepts. The aim was to investigate how chemistry discussions mediated by representations, contribute to second language student…
View article: Design for learning – involving teachers in digital didactic design (D<sup>3</sup>)
Design for learning – involving teachers in digital didactic design (D<sup>3</sup>) Open
Purpose This study aims to investigate how primary teachers, when taking part in digital didactic design (D 3 ) workshops at the Digital Laboratory Centre at the university, develop their insights about how digital tools can be designed an…
View article: Promoting Coherent Science Instruction through Coherent Science Teacher Education: A Model Framework for Program Design
Promoting Coherent Science Instruction through Coherent Science Teacher Education: A Model Framework for Program Design Open
Recent research and reform efforts in science education have consistently stressed the importance of coherent science instruction, in which learning opportunities are connected and contextualized by meaningful phenomena, focus on a small s…
View article: G-CoRe: A pedagogical tool for gender mainstreaming in higher education
G-CoRe: A pedagogical tool for gender mainstreaming in higher education Open
Aims of the contribution The aim of this contribution is to present and further explore a pedagogical tool aiming to enhance gender mainstreaming in teaching and content in higher education. Description of the research Introduction Previou…
View article: From Pedagogical Knowledge to Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Development in Mentor and Student-Teacher Group Conversations
From Pedagogical Knowledge to Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Development in Mentor and Student-Teacher Group Conversations Open
This case study focuses on mentor group conversation meetings with primary student-teachers, demonstrating how student- teachers´ reflections on classroom experiences might influence their understanding of the complicated relationship bet…
View article: A Student-Active Approach to Science Models and Representation : A Way to Improve Scientific Language of Second Language Learners?
A Student-Active Approach to Science Models and Representation : A Way to Improve Scientific Language of Second Language Learners? Open
Recent years changes have taken place in European and Swedish schools. The classroom situation has in many schools changed from single-lingual to multilingual. A larger number of students in Sweden are in the beginning of speaking Swedish …
View article: Sense of Belonging among First-Generation Migrants: Educational Reproduction of Inequality in Sweden
Sense of Belonging among First-Generation Migrants: Educational Reproduction of Inequality in Sweden Open
In a globalized world, schools are becoming more diverse. Research has shown that feelings of belonging are important for the success of migrants in school. Mostly quantitative research has been carried out, however, and it has shown a rel…
View article: Capturing student teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) using CoRes and digital technology
Capturing student teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) using CoRes and digital technology Open
During the last decades, digital technologies have become more common in providing opportunities for reflection and in-depth analysis of classroom practices and have afforded new ways of organising teacher education. In particular, videota…
View article: Coteaching with senior students – a way to refine teachers’ PCK for teaching chemical bonding in upper secondary school
Coteaching with senior students – a way to refine teachers’ PCK for teaching chemical bonding in upper secondary school Open
During the last decade there has been on-going discussions about students' declining interest and low achievement in science. One of the reasons suggested for this decline is that teachers and students have different frames of reference, w…