Cross-curricular teaching is a teaching method in which one or more subjects are used within another subject to make clear links to those subjects. This is to attract pupils that are otherwise maybe not interested in this subject. The aim of this work is to see how this teaching practice is organised these days by asking teachers about their work from a constructivist point of view. For this work written interviews with teachers from Flanders and Sweden have been conducted to see how teachers work in an international context. The results point out that although the teaching practice is different in both regions, the way the teachers think is very similar.

This thesis deals with teaching media studies in Norway and Sweden at the tertiary level of education. The aim of this paper is to introduce and compare the contemporary media studies tuition, offered degree courses and their focus and content, on the example of the ten selected higher education institutions. Within the scope of individual institutions, it will also acquaint with establishing this field of study in their academic environment and any research activities. For a better understanding of the topic, it also describes the education systems in both countries.

Abstract Emma Hjalmarsson, teacher student Maria Talevska, teacher student Title: So different yet so alike â A comparative study focusing on the pedagogical leadership in two different cultures. Växjö University, Fall Semester 2005, Department of the Humanities GIX 192, Degree project/Religious Studies in Secondary Education This paper compares the pedagogical leadership in Thailand and Sweden. By performing interviews, handing out questionnaires and observing class rooms we wanted to compare the relationship between pupils and teachers from one school in Sweden and one school in Thailand. From the pupils we wanted information about their view on teachers; what characterizes the best teacher, what the worst teacher is like and how they would like a teacher to be. From the teachers on the other hand we wanted to know what kind of relationship they would like to have with their pupils and how they work to accomplish that purpose. We also wanted to find out if they put more emphasis on upbringing or knowledge and if there are any religious influences in the education. Finally, we also wanted to see if there was something from the pedagogical view in the Thai school that we could use in education in Sweden.

<p>Abstract</p><p>Emma Hjalmarsson, teacher student</p><p>Maria Talevska, teacher student</p><p>Title: So different yet so alike â A comparative study focusing on the pedagogical leadership in two different cultures.</p><p>Växjö University, Fall Semester 2005, Department of the Humanities</p><p>GIX 192, Degree project/Religious Studies in Secondary Education</p><p>This paper compares the pedagogical leadership in Thailand and Sweden. By performing interviews, handing out questionnaires and observing class rooms we wanted to compare the relationship between pupils and teachers from one school in Sweden and one school in Thailand.</p><p>From the pupils we wanted information about their view on teachers; what characterizes the best teacher, what the worst teacher is like and how they would like a teacher to be.</p><p>From the teachers on the other hand we wanted to know what kind of relationship they would like to have with their pupils and how they work to accomplish that purpose. We also wanted to find out if they put more emphasis on upbringing or knowledge and if there are any religious influences in the education.</p><p>Finally, we also wanted to see if there was something from the pedagogical view in the Thai school that we could use in education in Sweden.</p>

This study is about how children of early school age, specifically children who have both English and Swedish at home, experience a bilingual school system in Sweden. The study on the early student’s viewpoint of a bilingual instruction was narrowed down to an elementary school in Stockholm which proposes an English-Swedish bilingual education. This research revolved around information obtained from interviews with children and educators. The “field-work” approach provided a set of data which were analyzed and summarized in bars diagrams to have a clearer idea about the student’s experience and perspective of an English-Swedish bilingual education from a very early age. We have also studied how adults- educators, experience this Bilingual education. Our results show that English-Swedish bilingual children even at a very young age, experience English as an international language and are proud to have English as one of their languages. Our results also show that educational pedagogues experience that English-Swedish bilingual children generally are more flexible with language development and are more open to the world. From the children’s point of view, these results altogether suggest that bilingualism is influenced at a very early stage by the institutional language spoken in school, by the social arena and by the input parents have provided prior to school. From the educator’s point of view, the findings reported in the present study indicate a requirement for extra competence needed by the school personnel to support children with a bilingual background. The findings were collectively placed in the context of known literature in the field of bilingualism. Based on the above, the main conclusion is that bilingualism is an asset for children and a major advantage that allows a higher degree of flexibility in the learning process but requires close guidance by the school system.

The overall aim of this study is to study what experiences young Muslim women have of religious education in Sweden. The study examines how the respondents consider Islam and Muslim women are presented in religious education. The respondents are five young Muslim women between the ages of 19 and 25. The participants have taken part in schooling in a medium-sized town located in Sweden. The participants consider the religious teaching´s portrayal of Islam and Muslim women as provocative, negative and singled out. The respondents believe that the main reason for this is the teachers lack of knowledge about Islam. The participants have experienced elements in the teaching that have affected them negatively as they felt exposed in the classroom. Islam is often presented in relation to conflicts and violence, which the participants claim creates prejudices about the religion. Since the teachers according to the respondents possess too little knowledge about Islam, the consequences according to the participants will be a superficial education. The respondents claim that the teaching of Islam and the representation of Muslim women leads to the formation of stereotypical ideas. Based on the participant´s experiences, there are several shortcomings in the religious education. Since the Swedish school´s teaching should contribute to understanding of religion in order for the students to become respectful and understanding democratic citizens, a change is required, according to the participants.

The study aims to investigate how teachers’ intentions with written feedback and students’ perceptions of it correlate. In total, three teachers and nine students from different study programs in an upper secondary school in Sweden participated in this study. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. It emerged in the analysis that the teachers’ intentions and students’ perceptions correlated to some extent. However, there was a clear difference with regard to how the teachers intended the students to use the written feedback and how the students actually used it. The teachers wanted the students to use it to improve the development of their learning, whereas the students saw it as an evaluation of their results and rarely used it. If the teachers want to make sure that the students work with the feedback, they need to make it a planned activity.

This study aims at investigating what opportunities mathematics textbooks used in Swedish and German upper secondary schools offer to practice modeling within the topic of mathematical analysis. The main interest of the study lies in how the textbook content relates to the national curriculum goals regarding modeling, but the Swedish and German textbooks are also compared to each other. In order to achieve this objective, two textbooks, one from each country, were analyzed with respect to the amount and to the quality of available modeling tasks. In the content analysis, theory on modeling competence and realistic tasks were used. The results indicate that the two analyzed textbooks contain modeling tasks to approximately same extent. Both textbooks support exclusively intra-mathematical aspects of modeling, which is in line with the findings of previous studies. While the scope of mathematical modeling in the textbooks does not correspond to the general curriculum goals of realistic modeling, it covers partly (Sweden) or completely (Germany) the curriculum requirements for at least the lowest proficiency level of the modeling competence. / Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vilka möjligheter matematikläroböcker som används i den svenska och den tyska gymnasieskolan erbjuder för att öva modellering inom matematisk analys. Studiens intresse ligger framför allt i hur läroböckernas innehåll relaterar till de nationella styrdokumentens lärandemål om modellering, men dessutom jämförs de svenska och tyska läroböckerna även med varandra. För att uppnå detta syfte analyserades två läroböcker, en från vardera land, med hänsyn till mängden och kvaliteten av befintliga modelleringsuppgifter. I innehållsanalysen användes teori om modelleringsförmåga och realistiska uppgifter. Resultaten indikerar att de två läroböcker som analyserats innehåller modelleringsuppgifter i ungefär samma utsträckning. Båda läroböckerna stödjer endast inommatematiska aspekter av modellering, vilket är i linje med tidigare forskningsrön. Även om omfattningen av matematisk modellering i läroböckerna inte överensstämmer med läroplansmål om realistisk modellering, motsvarar de befintliga modelleringsuppgifter delvis (Sverige) eller helt (Tyskland) åtminstone de lägsta kunskapskraven som styrdokumenten har angående modelleringsförmågan.

Swedish upper secondary schools are assigned the responsibility to promote cultural diversity and foster democratic global citizens according to Läroplanen för gymnasieskolan (Skolverket, 2022). Naturally, as English textbooks try to incorporate this, the potentially problematic outcome arises of the depictions of the Westerner and the non-Westerner. The present research examines to what extent and how the four dimensions of Western-centric ideologies through the analytical lens of Van Dijk’s ideological square are manifested in Blueprint A 3.0 (2017) and Solid Gold 1 (2014) for English 5 upper secondary schools. How the Western-centric ideologies are manifested is discussed through the theory of Orientalism (Said, 2003) and its complementary linguistic theories problematizing Native-speakerism (Holliday, 2006) and Euro-English (Philipson, 2003). The findings of the present study highlight how the majority of the texts placed in the ideological square are about the Western “Us” and that the West is portrayed as superior through depictions of being developed and progressive while the non-West “Them” is depicted as undeveloped, oppressed as well as stagnant and timeless. Thus, the findings are in accordance with the theories of the literature and previous research where the implied superiority of the West is found. Based on these findings, it can perhaps be argued that the textbooks Blueprint A 3.0 (2017) and Solid Gold 1 (2014) do not fulfill the expectations of Läroplanen för gymnasieskolan (Skolverket, 2022), leading to the pedagogical implications of this present study where teachers are encouraged to create complementary material or address the Western-centric ideologies of the respective textbooks.