Editorial
Articles
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The discourse of international standard-setting: PISA tests and Norway, a critical discourse analysis
Employing a critical discourse analysis, this study considers three documents from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) assessing challenges related to the development of skills and educational outcomes in the triennial PISA-tests for fifteen-year-olds in Norway. It is argued that the language in the OECD documents secretes a...
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Children's wellness: outdoor learning during Covid-19 in Canada
Outdoor learning has been a topic of recent discussion due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, which led to the closure of many schools, daycares, and regular programming, and the negative repercussions that affect children. Here, we consider the changing practices related to outdoor learning and Indigenous land-based learning during the...
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'The teachers do not see us.' The challenges of teacher education in rural areas
The northernmost region of Norway has difficulties in recruiting qualified teachers, in 2019 9.5 % of the teachers in Finnmark were unskilled. To ensure education for people who, for various reasons, are unable to move to education centres to study, UiT the Arctic University of Norway offers a flexible teacher education model from campus...
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Factors related to Icelandic student teachers' prospective commitment to the teaching profession
Research indicates that prospective commitment to a vocation is important to sustaining good professional practices. The purpose of the study was to explore, among Icelandic student teachers, how student teacher experiences in field-based practice and those in university-based courses are related to the student teachers’ prospective commitment to the teaching...
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Global education at the teacher education level: a comparative study of views of pre-service teachers in Australia and Zimbabwe
Current events at the global level make it necessary for global education to be taught in schools. This is because society views the education system, and schools in particular, as being responsible for getting young people to learn about globalization and what it means to be global citizens. However, research...
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Vikings and iPads: how iPads may influence historical thinking in the classroom
The last few years have seen the introduction of technology in Norwegian classrooms without much research data on how this affects learning. This article discusses whether the introduction of iPads in a Norwegian classroom influences how history is taught and what the pupils learn. One could imagine that when iPads...
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Digital Games Based Learning for History - Problem Solving or Problematic?
This study follows the design and development of an educational digital game, Tales of Iona, which was designed to be used to promote understanding of the ancient Scottish island of Iona in upper primary or early secondary schools. The game was designed to combine clear pedagogical principles of teaching History...
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Formative assessment strategies used to support group work
Formative assessment strategies used during the learning process can support students when working on group assignments and mitigate challenges often associated with group work. In this two-year design-based research study, we explored formative assessment strategies used during group work in one multi-sectioned course in an undergraduate program for pre-service teachers....
Features
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Is it still free Education? A reflection on high school teachers' experiences in Western Iran from digital teaching during the Covid -19 pandemic.
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University teacher development courses in the UK neoliberal higher education context
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A socio-linguistic theory of closing the gap in Scottish schools