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Malinen, Antti; Laine-Frigren, Tuomas; Kaarninen, Mervi – History of Education, 2022
During the Second World War, Nordic countries witnessed a large-scale displacement of the population as around 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to other Nordic countries. While up to 15,000 of them did not return to Finland, the majority travelled back, carrying multiple ruptures in their close relationships: first from their biological…
Descriptors: War, Novels, Childrens Literature, Parents
Hvid Thingstrup, Signe; Aabro, Christian; Prins, Karen; Christensen, Kira Saabye – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This article explores how complex globalization processes play out in early childhood education (ECE) in Denmark. The article builds on two concepts of globalization: First, we understand globalization as the ways in which transnational educational policy discourses characterized by neoliberal pedagogical values affect national and local policies.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Early Childhood Education, Immigration, Neoliberalism
Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Karoly, Lynn A.; Dearing, Eric – Educational Researcher, 2023
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data. Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous educational system, yet achievement gaps between students at the 90th and 10th percentiles of parental income and between students whose parents have at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Grade 5, Grade 8
Fackler, Sina; Sammons, Pamela; Malmberg, Lars-Erik – Review of Education, 2021
Going beyond previous studies, we investigated differential effects of teacher self-efficacy (TSE) across the three basic dimensions of educational equality in student engagement, instructional strategies and classroom management in East and South-East Asian, Anglo-Saxon and Nordic country clusters in a cross-cultural analysis. It was found that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Predictor Variables
Wenqian Xu; Lotta Aavikko; Eija Kärnä; Honglin Chen; Muzawir Arief; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Ning An – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Higher Education, necessitating a rapid shift from in-person to remote teaching and learning. This study investigates the experiences of doctoral students in an online Sino-Nordic summer school on aging, implemented during the pandemic. A survey was conducted to collect and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students
Lopez, Jose Adan Cardona; Nordfjell, Ole Bredesen; Gaini, Firouz; Heikkinen, Mervi – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
This case study examines a Nordic on-line course on gender equality promotion in education, in which principals, teachers, school staff and gender equality activists engaged in dialogue regarding contents and practices. The on-line course was designed with reference to promising practices identified in a previous Nordic network project. The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Educational Cooperation, Equal Education, Gender Differences
Brezicha, Kristina F.; Leroux, Audrey J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Students' positive experiences in schools positively predicts students' political trust. However, little research has examined how individual students' feelings of exclusion at their schools may relate to students' political trust. Moreover, how does an overall sense of exclusion from the school relate to political trust apart from individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
Nafsika Alexiadou; Carina Hjelmér; Anne Laiho; Päivi Pihlaja – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is changing across Europe, reflecting multiple-policy intentions and assumptions about education in early years, and the role of the state in supporting, funding and regulating its institutions. In this article, we examine the evolution of ECEC comparatively in Finland and Sweden, and we explore the shifts…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Radišic, Jeléna; Ding, Yi; Liu, Xin – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: The current study investigates school contextual effects on students' academic self-concept and achievement, that is, peer socioeconomic effect and big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), in four Nordic education systems (i.e., Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and selected Chinese education systems (Hong Kong and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
Magnusson, Maria; Hofslundsengen, Hilde; Jusslin, Sofia; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Svensson, Ann-Katrin; Heilä-Ylikallio, Ria; Hagtvet, Bente E. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study investigates preschool student teachers' views on how early writing should be supported in preschool. The sample consists of 66 preschool student teachers from Finland, Norway, and Sweden, who participated in the study by responding to open-ended questions on a written questionnaire. Results show that the respondents' answers were…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Writing (Composition), Emergent Literacy, Student Teacher Attitudes
Tereseviciene, Margarita; Trepule, Elena; Treciokiene, Edita – International Review of Education, 2018
This article analyses the role of the cooperation with and the influence of the Nordic countries on the development of a democratic society in Lithuania through adult education since the reinstatement of its independence from Soviet regime in March 1990 to the present. The authors focus on three main areas: (1) the training of Lithuanian adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Theories, Adoption (Ideas)
Andreassen, Inga H.; Einarsdóttir, Sif; Lerkkanen, Jukka; Thomsen, Rie; Wikstrand, Frida – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
The development of education programmes in career guidance and counseling (CGC) has followed different paths among the various Nordic countries. Ten CGC programmes in Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were evaluated against the NICE curricular model. The results show that all NICE core competences are represented in the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Training, Competency Based Education, Program Content
Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
The five articles in this special issue present studies focusing on two key aspects of vocational education and transitions in the Nordic countries in relation to social justice: (a) impacts of policies and reforms on transitions and (b) content, practices, curriculum and equality. Collectively, the articles outline important similarities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Social Justice, Educational Policy
?î?tea, Ioana – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
Previous Nordic migration and minority studies focus little on who produces research about migration and migrant education and in what ways. In contrast, by inquiring into how migrants and researchers themselves as knowing subjects are constituted through research and educational practices, this article seeks to destabilize established modes of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Educational Practices, Ethnography
Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick – Language Policy, 2023
In the Nordic countries, policy debates about English often highlight the threat of domain loss for national languages, but the high status of English may also have a differential impact on people in Nordic societies. This article investigates a policy gap in Norwegian upper secondary education, whereby an advanced English subject requirement may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy