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Parental trust in the Finnish basic education system during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 183-203 (2021)
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic in Finland rapidly changed many of the established practices in Finnish schooling. Normal teaching was replaced by distance learning and many daily routines (grouping, school meals etc.) were ordered to be organised following ne...
Teaching and supporting students with special educational needs at a distance during the COVID-19 school closures in Finland: special needs teachers' experiences
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 5-24 (2021)
Abstract: This study aimed to increase knowledge of how special needs education (SNE) in Finnish comprehensive schools was arranged at a distance during the COVID-19 school closures in the spring of 2020 and to clarify what types of challenges special needs te...
Changes and actions taken in online teaching during the first period of COVID-19: a teacher perspective on pupils' equity
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 63-84 (2021)
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore a teacher perspective on issues of equity for pupils in online teaching during lockdown in the first period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the concepts of horizontal and vertical equity and equal educational opp...
Teachers in new situations during the COVID-19 period: impact on professional collaboration and quality of teaching
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 25-43 (2021)
Abstract: In late February of 2020 the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Iceland. The Icelandic government declared a four-week assembly ban, which included various restrictions that forced teachers to change their teaching methods and organisation. The aim...
Classrooms going online: Nordic lower secondary teachers' readiness at the COVID-19 outbreak
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 44-62 (2021)
Abstract: The aim of this article is to make visible Nordic lower secondary teachers’ experiences of the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic, guided by three research questions: 1. What challenges and strategies can be identified in teachers’ descriptions ...
Swedish upper secondary school teachers' experiences with coping with emergency remote teaching (ERT) - emerging pedagogical issues in pandemic times
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 85-99 (2021)
Abstract: This paper reports the results of a research project on the advanced use of digital technology in Swedish upper secondary schools. The study was aimed at mapping and analysing teachers’ experiences during the first six months of their mandatory emerg...
Swedish vocational teachers' informal workplace learning during the initial phase of the COVID-19 crisis
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 121-139 (2021)
Abstract: As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, schools providing Vocational Education and Training (VET) around the world were largely forced to close and switch to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). This study deals with Swedish vocational teachers' informal wor...
Individualised home-schooling - at odds with the equity ambitions in the Nordic model of education?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 204-221 (2021)
Abstract: Within the Norwegian education system, equity, equal opportunities and education for all are fundamental principles, regardless of one’s socioeconomic background and academic achievement. In this article, we discuss how these ideals of equity for all...
Crisis as opportunity: experiences of Norwegian school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 274-292 (2021)
Abstract: Norwegian schools received a few days’ notice in March 2020 before closing in response to the COVID19 pandemic. The complexity of school life was suddenly compounded by a serious and unstable situation. Amid this was the implementation of the updated ...
Long-term consequences of COVID-19 on students' well-being and values
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Education in the North, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 249-273 (2021)
Abstract: Due to COVID-19, 2020 and 2021 were strange and different school years for many students around the world. Based on surveys of Danish primary and lower secondary school students conducted in April 2020 (N=5953), June 2020 (N=1187), December 2020 (N=2...