Explores the educational implications of cognitivism and Aristotelianism in the field of emotional research and discusses attempts to translate these ideas into educational practice. Uses a "post-Kohlbergian" perspective (L. Kohlberg, 1971, 1981) to consider the feasibility of moral education and emotion education in a school setting.…

Outlines a psycholinguistic framework for reading and spelling methodology at the preliminary stage. Based on the theory of metalinguistic development of A. Karmiloff-Smith and J. Gombert, the framework involves a three-step model for early reading and spelling instruction. The approach balances focus on meaning with focus on skill. (SLD)

Shows that education change depends on level of policy formation and level of policy transformation and on what P. Bourdieu has termed the repertory of actual and virtual possibilities and relations of symbolic force within the base arrangements of a civilization. Discusses teacher education reform in the context of the Swedish Teacher Education…

Discusses educational change at the collegiate level using the example of recent changes in Irish higher education. Suggests that the greatest determinant of success in college change efforts is the ability of academic leaders to infuse a vision of the college's future as they build a culture supportive of change strategies. (Author/SLD)

Describes and compares the latest models of self-regulated learning, including those developed by M. Boekaerts, J. Borkowski, P. Pintrich, P. Winne, and B. Zimmerman. The comparison shows that theoretical background is an important differentiating feature. (SLD)

Discusses the concept of schema and the role this concept plays in educational practice. Traces the historical development of the concept and how it came to be taken for granted that schemata exist. Suggests a return to a more phenomenological approach to learning and knowledge formation. (SLD)

Discusses the relevance of philosophy to education, conceptualizing this relationship in terms of a foundational view of the relationship conceiving of education as resting on a foundation of philosophy and a nonfoundational view that there is a mutual dependence of the two disciplines. (SLD)

Describes the evolution and organization of foreign language teaching in Sweden and the status and images related to the languages taught. Policy initiated in 1994 made teaching of a second foreign language compulsory in addition to the English mandated since 1962. Stresses the place of honor of foreign languages in the Swedish curriculum. (SLD)

Discusses conflicts and tensions related to teacher autonomy in the context of the Swedish comprehensive school system. Presents two models for strengthening the relative autonomy of teachers that can help them meet the challenges inherent in change. (SLD)

Children today live in different cultural settings. The pre-school culture is one of them and the media culture outside the pre-school another. These cultures are in different ways characterised by opposite and often even conflicting traditions. This article shows how educators and children handle this dilemma by using interaction as a tool to…

The main purpose of this study was to explore the relations between coping styles and emotional and behavioural problems among adolescent students. The study was conducted as a survey among a representative sample of 2006 Norwegian 9th graders. The results show that emotional problems are associated with self-blaming as well as aggressive coping.…