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Portrayals of Technology Education in Swedish Upper Secondary Education

2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2020
In this Research Full Paper we contribute to the research on constructions of technology education. Why are women and minority groups often under-represented in student cohorts in STEM programmes? Many studies have addressed this question, and much is known about the impact of representations of technology studies on the choices and motivations of ...
Louise Björlin Svozil, Arnold Pears, Lena Gumaelius   +2 more
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Discourses on educational support in the context of general upper secondary education [PDF]

Disability and Society, 2020
After basic education, the Finnish educational system divides into separate types of upper secondary schools – general and vocational. Vocational schools have long traditions of educating young people with support needs and arranging special education ...
Anna-Maija Niemi, Linda Maria Laaksonen
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Introduction: The democratisation of upper secondary education?

Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Rates of staying-on in education beyond the age of 16 have increased dramatically in recent decades, both in Western and developing countries. This expansion has led to upper-secondary education providing for an increasingly diverse student population, and concerns have been raised regarding declining standards, grade inflation and the declining value ...
Heath, Anthony, Sullivan, Alice
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Problems of Upper Secondary Education∗

Comparative Education, 1972
∗ This lecture was originally given as a paper at a Symposium on Curriculum planning and development for upper secondary education, held at Karlskrona, Sweden, in May 1972, and organised by the Council of Europe.
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Interdisciplinarity and accountability in upper-secondary education

2022
This chapter explores the configuration of interdisciplinarity in Danish upper-secondary education in the aftermaths of a reform in 2005, which introduced interdisciplinarity as a key organising principle. Focusing on the prominence of an assessment tool, Bloom's taxonomy, in the daily practices and processes of interdisciplinarity, the chapter ...
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Upper-secondary education student assessment in Scotland

OECD Education Working Papers, 2021
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is a pioneering example of curriculum reform, but the qualifications for upper-secondary school students have seen far less reform. Exam cancellations in 2020-21, and the debates generated provide an opportunity to radically reconsider the assessment system.
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Governance and Choice of Upper Secondary Education in the Nordic Countries

2022
This work discusses how the complex relationship between welfare policies of equity and market efficiencies/deficiencies of education policies is handled in local practices. It offers contributions from the five Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland - and pays special attention to questions about access and diversity in upper ...
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Academic and Vocational Tracking in Upper Secondary Education

2014
This chapter focuses on students who continue in full-time education after compulsory schooling and asks whether minority students are disproportionately channelled into lower-status vocational tracks and are excluded from the high-status academic tracks which lead to higher education.
Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Yaël Brinbaum, Anthony Heath   +2 more
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Linguistic Minorities in Upper Secondary Education in Norway

European Education, 1995
Among the main conclusions of a study on the educational achievements of pupils belonging to linguistic minorities are the following: —Pupils belonging to linguistic minorities do not, in practice, have equal opportunities in terms of upper secondary education compared with pupils with Norwegian as their mother tongue.
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Ethnic Differences in Completion of Upper Secondary Education

2014
In this chapter we explore the completion of upper secondary education. The central question here is whether the high rates of ethnic minority continuation into upper secondary education lead to a closing of the attainment gaps with the majority group. The story which emerges is that there are considerable continuities over the secondary school career.
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