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Openness -- Flexibility -- Transition. Nordic Prospects for Changes in the School Learning Environment
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Woolner, Pamela; Stadler-Altmann, Ulrike – Education Inquiry, 2021
Amid increasing global and national interest in the built educational environment, this editorial considers developments within the Nordic countries that are investigated and discussed within the articles in this special issue. We discuss commonalities and divergences in the experiences of transition and change in the schools, located in a range…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Buildings, Building Design, Educational Facilities Design
'It Is Impossible to Avoid Policy' Comment on Mel Ainscow: Promoting Inclusion and Equity in Education--Lessons from International Experiences
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Haug, Peder – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
Mel Ainscow has recently written an interesting and important article concerning a challenging aspect of inclusive education, namely how to practically implement the ambitious ideal of inclusion in schools, where inclusion refers to making basic education of a high quality available to all learners by identifying barriers to access to educational…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Special Education
Insights into Accounting Education in a COVID-19 World
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tuning In to Dropping Out
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Tabarrok, Alex – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Over the past 25 years, the total number of students in college has increased by about 50 percent. But the number of students graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects has remained more or less constant. In 2009 the United States graduated 89,140 students in the visual and performing arts, more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Educational Indicators, Education Work Relationship
The Pedagogy of Complex Work Support Systems: Infrastructuring Practices and the Production of Critical Awareness in Risk Auditing
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Mathisen, Arve; Nerland, Monika – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
This paper employs a socio-technical perspective to explore the role of complex work support systems in organising knowledge and providing opportunities for learning in professional work. Drawing on concepts from infrastructure studies, such systems are seen as work infrastructures which connect information, knowledge, standards and work…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Risk, Financial Audits, Accounting
Publishing Sami Literature--From Christian Translations to Sami Publishing Houses
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Paltto, Kirsti – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2010
Publishing in the Sami languages has always been difficult. The Sami are currently spread across four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. There are nine different Sami languages, some of them with only a few speakers. The Sami publishing industry is entirely dependent on government funding as it does not have its own funds nor is there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Finno Ugric Languages, Publishing Industry, Financial Support