Cuando empecé a trabajar como profesor, tenía muchas ganas de desarrollar el conocimiento de mis alumnos. Pero a menudo me preguntaba: ¿qué es “conocimiento” en el contexto escolar? Me di cuenta rápidamente que no era una pregunta fácil de responder. Aún así, pensar en el conocimiento era importante. Me hizo evaluar lo que necesitaba ser…
När jag började arbeta som lärare var jag angelägen om att utveckla mina elevers kunskaper. Men jag frågade mig ofta: vad är “kunskap” i skolan? Jag insåg snabbt att det inte var en lätt fråga att svara på, men viktig att tänka på. Mitt begrundande av kunskap i skolan skapade nämligen utrymme till att bedöma…
When I started working as a teacher, I was keen to develop my pupils’ knowledge. But I often asked myself: what is ‘knowledge’ in a school context? I realized quickly that this wasn’t an easy question to answer. Even so, thinking about knowledge was important. It made me assess what needed to be prioritized in terms of my teaching…
Competition between universities is not a new thing. In my home state, the bitter rivals are The University of Iowa and Iowa State University. For anyone who wasn’t raised in this particular corner of the world, you may have no idea that this rivalry is anything worth considering or taking a side on. In fact,…
It has been nearly twenty years to the day since I graduated from the University of Nottingham (for the first time) with a BA Hons in Modern Language Studies. I was in one of the first cohorts to study three languages to degree level – two from A-level and a third ab initio. We were a…
I’m a PhD student in Education and the focus of my research is the reforms to Swedish upper secondary schools during the 1960s. The big issue at that time was the change from teacher-centred teaching to more independent work for pupils and this is a subject I want to discuss in the blog. I teach at…
The General Election is occurring at a time when teachers’ unions in the UK are more visible, active and successful than in recent history. In fact, their voices have been remarkably powerful on issues of school funding and teacher workload over this past school year. More recently though, the three major teacher trade unions – the Association…
One of the most interesting aspects of researching teacher professionalism in England and Sweden has been trying to understand what a collective voice sounds like. Who are the collective? How do they organise themselves? Do they speak louder together or, despite their number, only in a whisper? What I have discovered is that, in the teaching…
I would like to raise the voices of mothers in Early Childhood Education. Many countries have started or continued educational policies for expansion of enrolment to infants, toddlers and pre-schools. Mothers are the key in this enrolment. They search for and choose the education or care for their children and then decide the best age for…
In the construction of a curriculum in Sweden, there are different stakeholders involved. It’s also a democratic process that needs to be maintained. The Swedish National Agency for Education has responsibility for the process. But this process is a negotiation between different voices of different stakeholders. There are many voices that should be listened to.…
Raising Voices in Education 