This paper notes that, in the field of education and beyond, the term 'ethnography'has
acquired a range of meanings, and comes in many different versions, these often reflecting …

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 …

Sweden may be wealthy, but uneven distributions of resources still affect students' access to
higher education and career choices. Some variation is linked to rural/urban divides, but …

A key feature of the Swedish upper secondary school reform of 2011 (GY11) is the new
direction it sets out for the organization of vocational education (VET) and the role it plays in …

Successful social and economic integration into Swedish society increasingly demands a
post-compulsory education, but such education is increasingly centralised, posing problems …

The purpose of this article is analysis of discursive marginalisation through education in
Nordic welfare states. What knowledge do Nordic research discourses produce about …

There is a fundamental tension in ethnographic research between trying to understand
participants from within their own perspective and viewing them with greater distance. With …

This study investigates how upper secondary school English teachers experience using the
vocational orientation (VO) approach when teaching English as a second/foreign language …

This article examines the co‐occurring realization of two sociophonetic variables within a
style—the LOT vowel in English and word‐initial/l/—to explore the link between articulatory …

In Finland, the vocational education and training (VET) qualifications lead into work. Also,
active citizenship is one of its aims, and qualification enables application to tertiary study. In …