How do teachers interpret and transform entrepreneurship education?

A Fejes, M Nylund, J Wallin - Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
During the last decade, entrepreneurship education has become a central curricular topic in
many locations in the world. In Sweden, entrepreneurship education was implemented in …

Knowledge in VET curricula and power in society and labour market: Policy and practice: demands-based and employer-driven Swedish higher vocational education

J Köpsén - 2020 - diva-portal.org
Knowledge in VET curricula and power in society and labour market : Policy and practice:
demands-based and employer-driven Swedish higher vocational education diva-portal.org …

The academic–vocational divide in three Nordic countries: Implications for social class and gender

M Nylund, PÅ Rosvall, E Eiríksdóttir, AS Holm… - Education …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this study we examine how the academic–vocational divide is manifested today in
Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and …

Investigating the effect of vocational education and training on rural women's empowerment

R Ebrahimi, S Choobchian, H Farhadian… - Humanities and Social …, 2022 - nature.com
This research is an attempt to identify the most important dimensions of vocational education
and training (VET) on empowering rural women, a topic that has received less attention. The …

Life skills for 'real life': How critical thinking is contextualised across vocational programmes

M Rönnlund, K Ledman, M Nylund… - Educational …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: This article presents an analysis of how critical thinking is contextualised in
everyday teaching in three vocational education and training (VET) programmes: Vehicle …

Young people's career choices in Swedish rural contexts: Schools' social codes, migration and resources

PÅ Rosvall, M Rönnlund, M Johansson - Journal of Rural Studies, 2018 - Elsevier
Successful social and economic integration into Swedish society increasingly demands a
post-compulsory education, but such education is increasingly centralised, posing problems …

Knowledge mapping of vocational education and training research (2004–2020): a visual analysis based on CiteSpace

Y Tian, J Liu, X Xu, X Wu - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The study aims to analyze the leading researchers of vocational education and training from
dimensions of individuals, institutions and countries. This article utilises the scientific …

Imagining societies through discourses on educational equality: A cross-cultural analysis of Finnish and Swedish upper secondary curricula from 1970 to the 2010s

S Lappalainen, M Nylund… - European educational …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Educational equality has been a central tenet framing educational policy in Nordic welfare
states and stimulating school reforms in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the …

More than a matter of qualification: Teachers' thoughts on the purpose of social studies and history teaching in vocational preparation programmes in Swedish upper …

A Persson, M Berg - Citizenship, Social and Economics …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to increase our understanding of how history and social studies
teachers in vocational preparation programmes (VET) in Sweden relate to the obligation of …

VET teachers' interpretations of individualisation and teaching of skills and social order in two Nordic countries

E Eiríksdóttir, PÅ Rosvall - European Educational Research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The age at which young people leave education for the labour market has increased in
recent decades, and entering upper secondary education has become the norm. As a result …