Background: International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) are a much-debated
phenomenon in education. Increasingly, their outcomes attract considerable media attention …

Discourse approaches in education policy analysis have gained prominence in the last
decade. However, though the literature on policy discourses is growing, different …

School issues have become increasingly important in public elections and political debates,
leading to increased focus on the results students achieve in international large-scale …

Our aim in this article is to examine policy discourses that promote positional changes for the
preschool class in the Swedish educational system. The preschool class is currently going …

This article reveals how templates that emerge from opaque albeit often inclusive policy
processes in transnational forums (EU, OECD & the Bologna Process) affect education …

Background: Sustainable development, as an area of knowledge, appears in several
different places in the curriculum and does not fit neatly within the scope of traditional …

In this article, we explore the processes of transfer and translation of education policy in a
study focusing on the relationship between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

In the Nordic curriculum theory (CT) tradition, questions linked to educational change and
school governance have long been a crucial research issue. However, despite several …

This article reports how teachers in Swedish school-age educare evaluate (SAEC) their
practice. The study was conducted within a research-and development programme and is …

The aim of this article is to explore the interrelationships between a national government and
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of the …