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View article: Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness
Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness Open
‘Open schooling’ has become in recent years a burgeoning theme in the discourse on how to rethink education for the 21st century. This paper addresses a gap between calls for implementing an open schooling approach in policy papers and int…
View article: Primary school students’ perceptions of artificial intelligence – for good or bad
Primary school students’ perceptions of artificial intelligence – for good or bad Open
Since the end of 2022, global discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) have surged, influencing diverse societal groups, such as teachers, students and policymakers. This case study focuses on Swedish primary school students aged 11–12.…
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: Students’ and teachers’ responses to use of a digital self-assessment tool to understand and identify development of twenty-first century skills when working with makerspace activities
Students’ and teachers’ responses to use of a digital self-assessment tool to understand and identify development of twenty-first century skills when working with makerspace activities Open
In this qualitative study, we investigated how students and teachers responded to the design of a digital self-assessment tool and how they experienced the use of the tool to support understanding and development of twenty-first century sk…
View article: Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools Open
Background Although science and technology are viewed as closely related subjects, they are rarely combined in preschools. Purpose This article investigates preschool teachers’ perspectives on integrating digital tools when teaching scienc…
View article: Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments
Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments Open
BACKGROUND Informal learning environments (ILEs) like Fablabs and Makerspaces have potential to facilitate development of STEM skills. However, these environments might be difficult for teachers to adopt in their teaching because of teachi…
View article: Developing Pre-service Teachers’ Competence in Assessing Socioscientific Argumentation
Developing Pre-service Teachers’ Competence in Assessing Socioscientific Argumentation Open
Research has revealed that teachers find teaching and assessing socioscientific argumentation (SSA) to be challenging. In this study, ten preservice science teachers (PSTs) tested a new Practical Assessment of Socioscientific Argumentation…
View article: Developing museum-school partnerships: art-based exploration of science issues in a <i>third space</i>
Developing museum-school partnerships: art-based exploration of science issues in a <i>third space</i> Open
A third space can be unlocked through collaborative efforts between out-of-school organisations (like museums) and schools. By bridging museum and school contexts, blurring boundaries between disciplines and shifting between multiple persp…
View article: Pre-service teachers’ reflections when drama was integrated in a science teacher education program
Pre-service teachers’ reflections when drama was integrated in a science teacher education program Open
In earlier studies, it has been argued that drama has the potential to stimulate learning in science. However, it is not widely used, one reason being that science teachers are not familiar with this instructional strategy. In this study, …
View article: Embracing Digital Technology in Science Classrooms—Secondary School Teachers’ Enacted Teaching and Reflections on Practice
Embracing Digital Technology in Science Classrooms—Secondary School Teachers’ Enacted Teaching and Reflections on Practice Open
The aim of this case study was to investigate what happens in science classrooms when teaching is almost entirely based on the use of digital technology. Two secondary school science teachers participated, together with their seventh grade…
View article: The potential of using a combination of storytelling and drama, when teaching young children science
The potential of using a combination of storytelling and drama, when teaching young children science Open
Based on a sociocultural perspective, this study explores the outcome of using a model that combines storytelling and drama to teach young children science. The research question is: How is children’s learning affected when using a combina…
View article: Factors from informal learning contributing to the children’s interest in STEM – experiences from the out-of-school activity called Children’s University
Factors from informal learning contributing to the children’s interest in STEM – experiences from the out-of-school activity called Children’s University Open
Background: Previous studies have investigated effects of out-of-school STEM activities aimed at stimulating children's interest in science with positive results. However, research has not discussed the reasons why such activities are succ…
View article: The dream performance – a case study of young girls’ development of interest in STEM and 21st century skills, when activities in a makerspace were combined with drama
The dream performance – a case study of young girls’ development of interest in STEM and 21st century skills, when activities in a makerspace were combined with drama Open
Background: There is a shortage of people in the STEM sector, and it has been argued that more needs to be done, especially to attract girls. Furthermore, there is a need to develop twenty-first-century skills. No studies seem to have expl…
View article: Building with focus on stability and construction: using a story as inspiration when teaching technology and design in preschool
Building with focus on stability and construction: using a story as inspiration when teaching technology and design in preschool Open
In this study children's learning of the concept, stability, during some building activities were investigated. It was also examined how a story can create meaning, having the children build for some animals in the story. Two preschool tea…
View article: Students' reflections on participation in a science and technology school competition
Students' reflections on participation in a science and technology school competition Open
Different kinds of efforts have been made in many countries to stimulate students' interest in science and technology, for example through school competitions. Few studies, however,have investigated the effect of school competitions in sci…
View article: From doing to learning : Inquiry- and context-based science education in primary school
From doing to learning : Inquiry- and context-based science education in primary school Open
The aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of primary school teachers’ knowledge of Inquiry- and Context-Based Science Education (IC-BaSE) from different perspectives: what it is, how to use it and why these strategies are used.…