On visual impairment in Swedish children

A Pedagogical Stance on Internationalising Education An empirical study of Swedish nurse education from the perspectives of students and teachers

The development of higher education in the Western countries involves ideas of internationalisation, included in curricular objectives. Policy-makers stipulate internationalisation ideologies, from a politico-economic perspective, where ideas about flows of various cultural elements are incorporated in visionary idealistic terms. Nevertheless teachers and students and others concerned with higher

Privatisation of the IT Sector in Sweden

The majority of research on privatisation has been driven by, inter alia, economics. Some economists have argued that private ownership introduces capital market pressures into inefficient state bureaucracies. Private property rights are expected to maximise the incentives for management to achieve a high level of production efficiency. The argument put forward in this research is that in so far a

Troublesome transformation. EU law on pregnancy and maternity turned into Swedish Law on parental leave

Amateur and avant-garde: minor cinemas and public sphere in 1950s Sweden

A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish

The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice

Non-target structures and non-target uses in child and adult Swedish

Vowel quantity in West Swedish - the villain of the piece?

This paper consists of two, somewhat disparate parts. In the first part, some experiences of two years of fieldwork are summarized, concentrating, as the subtitle suggests, on the very heart of phonetic fieldwork: the encounters and interviews with the informants. As a result of the fieldwork, the project now has access to recordings from approximately 1300 speakers of more than 100 dialects of Sw

Discipline and Punish at Camp : Citizenship and the Issue of Violence at a Swedish Boy Scout Camp

Translating ‘unprejudiced, bright and philanthropic views’ : Henry Brougham and Anglo-Swedish exchanges in the early nineteenth century

Already during the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. The focus of the present article is on the way in which Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the EduDuring the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. This article focuses on how Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825), was mad

About Not Understanding the System : Ignorance as an Obstacle to a Meaningful Life in Sweden

This presentation builds on several ethnographic fieldworks (2011-2015) in southern Sweden on people who have Palestinian background as well as my on-going informal involvement with Palestinian networks. The field material includes about 35 qualitative interviews, numerous informal discussions and participant observations of political events (mostly demonstrations and lectures) and people’s daily

A history of dead ends : the historiography of early twentieth-century Swedish mural painting

Processing relative clause extractions in Swedish

Agreement and reconstruction correlate in Swedish : Evidence from tough-constructions

Temporary Jobs in Sweden: Incidence, Exit, and On-the-Job Training.

On Great 19th-Century Swedish Poets

Constructing a Swedish conflict prevention policy based on a powerful idea and successful practice

Empowering Teachers in Times of Change. The Swedish Comprehensive School System

Anti-Semitism in Swedish Films