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Educare, Iss 1 (2026)
ISSN 2004-5190 · Malmö University Press · 397 articles in the index
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Andraspråksstudenter och generativ AI – en potentiell väg för att omforma akademiska literacypraktiker?
As higher education places increasing demands on academic reading and writing, students with Swedish as a second language face growing linguistic and epistemic challenges due to the instructional language not being their mother tongue. The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)…
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Educating for multilingualism? Language teacher students visualising future language education
In this study, we aimed to examine perspectives related to multilingualism as expressed by students in teacher education programmes for Swedish language teachers at three universities in Finland. Language teacher students’ perspectives were studied through visual narratives (n = 62), which…
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Participation and agency in Swedish education: Contributions to a Nordic conversation
This issue presents ten studies from Swedish education exploring participation, agency, interaction and inclusion across preschool, school-age educare, teacher education and compulsory school. Together, the contributions advance discussions about more dialogic, democratic and equitable educational…
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Möten mellan förskolepedagoger och vårdnadshavare med utländsk bakgrund: Motstånd, anpassning och nyskapande i det tredje rummet
This article examines everyday encounters between preschool educators and guardians with migrant backgrounds in Swedish preschools, focusing on how resistance, adaptation, and emergent practices are articulated in the in-between space where they meet. The study is informed by Bhabha’s theory of the…
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En ovanligt motiverad omotiverad student – Wilmas berättelse om att vara förskollärarstudent
This article focuses on one preschool teacher student, Wilma, in order to investigate how her identity development is shaped through experiences in preschool teacher education and other relevant social practices. Drawing on the concepts of social practice and figured worlds, the article examines…
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Conceptualisations of Linguistic Diversity: Critical Multilingual Awareness in Swedish Teacher Education
Linguistic diversity is a defining feature of Swedish schools, where a substantial proportion of pupils have a migration background, underscoring the need for teachers who can support pupils with diverse linguistic experiences. Teacher education programmes have nevertheless been criticized for…
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Linguistic Diversity in Teacher Education: Examples from the Nordic context
This special issue on Linguistic Diversity in Teacher Education: Examples from the Nordic context brings together research from Denmark, Finland, and Sweden to examine how teacher education responds to super-diverse classrooms and changing linguistic landscapes. The contributing articles…
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Reading Darkness: Blackout Poetry as a Creative Approach for English Language Learning
Blackout poetry is a creative form in which poets compose poems by selecting and highlighting words from another text. This process, often accompanied by artistic visual illustrations, involves an elaborate interaction with language, art, poetry, and social commentary. Even though blackout poetry…
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Förskolans strukturella villkor i förhållande till organisation av barngruppen och aktiviteter
Over several decades, research has examined how structural conditions shape preschool quality and influence how preschool teachers organise children’s groups and everyday activities. This study investigates how structural conditions in Swedish preschools interact with teachers’ organisation of…
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Interaktionell stöttning i dialogiskt samspel mellan pedagoger och elever med autism och intellektuell funktionsnedsättning i den anpassade grundskolan
This socioculturally grounded study examines dialogic interaction and interactional scaffolding between educators and students with autism in a Swedish compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disabilities. Interaction within this educational context, and specifically for this group, has…
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Att synliggöra det osynliga: Läsloggar som verktyg för analys av jämställdhetsnormer i hemmet
Gender equality is a central aspect of teacher education and home and consumer studies (HCS) in Sweden. Despite clear educational goals, studies indicate that gender equality perspectives are insufficiently integrated into teaching. This study explores how student teachers engage with gender…
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Barns inflytande i undervisning för hållbar konsumtion i en förskolegrupp
Sustainability education is mandatory in Swedish preschools, yet young children often experience sustainability issues as frightening, complex and beyond their influence. This study explores how preschool children can exercise agency and influence in teaching activities focused on sustainable…
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What is the primary objective of early childhood education according to newly enrolled students in a higher education preschool programme?
Swedish preschools are mandated to three interconnected roles: to provide care for young children’s needs, to support their learning and development, and to foster socialization into cultural norms and values. However, these roles are not necessarily valued equally by those entering the profession…
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Skriftspråkande i fritidshemmet
This study contributes to knowledge about school-age educare as a literacy practice by investigating conditions for reading and writing among students aged 6-7. Data were collected through observations of teachers’ and students’ literacy-related actions, as well as individual interviews with…
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Discourses of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Mathematics Teacher Education Policy in Sweden
This study investigates how cultural and linguistic diversity is discursively construed in mathematics teacher education for Grades 4–6 in Sweden at policy level. Discourse analysis was used to examine 55 mathematics course syllabi and 20 educational curricula from various Swedish universities. The…
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Et andenordensdidaktisk perspektiv på tværsproglig undervisning i engelsk og fransk på læreruddannelsen
In the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school) and teacher education, increasingly plurilingual student populations call for responsive plurilingual pedagogies in teacher education. This paper explores second-order didactics in plurilingual teaching combined with task-based and…
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Letter from the Editor: Exploring education’s complex frontiers
This issue brings together ten research articles and one position paper that address some of today’s most pressing questions in education. The topics addressed span a wide spectrum, including reading promotion, the evolving roles of paraprofessionals, adult learning, and the development of…
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Children’s Existential Meaning-Making of Educational Robots: A Call for Dialogue
As technological advances become increasingly integrated into children’s learning environments, this paper aims to initiate a dialogue about the place and meaning of educational robots in children’s lives. We reviewed the existing literature on robots in education and the field of philosophy for…
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Vuxenutbildningens distansundervisning: En villkorad flexibilitet
The Swedish municipal adult education curriculum emphasizes that there should be flexibility in education and accommodation to meet the adults’ diverse needs. However, it appears unclear what the concept of flexibility means in practice especially in the context of adult distance education. This…