Classrooms going online : Nordic lower secondary teachers’ readiness at the COVID-19 outbreak
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 of teaching during the pandemic outbreak? 2. What...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/340261 2024-01-07T09:44:18+01:00 Classrooms going online : Nordic lower secondary teachers’ readiness at the COVID-19 outbreak Nilsberth, Marie Slotte, Anna Høegh, Tina Zophoníasdóttir, Sólveig Högström, Jenny Johansson, Annelie Olin-Scheller, Christina Tarander, Eva Department of Education Education of Education Diversity, multilingualism and social justice in education 2022-02-15T10:46:01Z 19 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340261 eng eng Aberdeen College of Education 10.26203/6358-rk88 Nilsberth , M , Slotte , A , Høegh , T , Zophoníasdóttir , S , Högström , J , Johansson , A , Olin-Scheller , C & Tarander , E 2021 , ' Classrooms going online : Nordic lower secondary teachers’ readiness at the COVID-19 outbreak ' , Education in the North , vol. 28 , no. 3 , pp. 44-62 . https://doi.org/10.26203/6358-rk88 ORCID: /0000-0001-5258-4827/work/108464044 26cb9ccb-74ea-455d-876b-5bd5d49666fa http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340261 cc_by_nc openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 516 Educational sciences Article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:02:01Z 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 of teaching during the pandemic outbreak? 2. What appears to be the role of digital technology in these challenges and strategies? 3. How can we understand the readiness and educational priorities of these Nordic schools in this time of crisis? Theoretically, we draw on the three main domains of purposes of education coined by Biesta (2015); qualification, socialisation and subjectification. The empirical data consists of online qualitative interviews with 17 lower secondary teachers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden, teaching in different school subjects. A thematic content analysis was conducted, finding three main areas of challenges in relation to organisation of teaching, classroom dialogue and assessment of student learning. Our analysis makes visible how besides digital readiness, the readiness of the studied schools relied on the teachers' ability to act independently in finding professional solutions in a time of crisis. The teachers did not just sit and wait for instructions on what to do, but took initiatives and managed the situation as best as they could drawing on their professional competence. 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 of teaching during the pandemic outbreak? 2. What appears to be the role of digital technology in these challenges and strategies? 3. How can we understand the readiness and educational priorities of these Nordic schools in this time of crisis? Theoretically, we draw on the three main domains of purposes of education coined by Biesta (2015); qualification, socialisation and subjectification. The empirical ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository |
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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 of teaching during the pandemic outbreak? 2. What appears to be the role of digital technology in these challenges and strategies? 3. How can we understand the readiness and educational priorities of these Nordic schools in this time of crisis? Theoretically, we draw on the three main domains of purposes of education coined by Biesta (2015); qualification, socialisation and subjectification. The empirical data consists of online qualitative interviews with 17 lower secondary teachers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden, teaching in different school subjects. A thematic content analysis was conducted, finding three main areas of challenges in relation to organisation of teaching, classroom dialogue and assessment of student learning. Our analysis makes visible how besides digital readiness, the readiness of the studied schools relied on the teachers' ability to act independently in finding professional solutions in a time of crisis. The teachers did not just sit and wait for instructions on what to do, but took initiatives and managed the situation as best as they could drawing on their professional competence. 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 of teaching during the pandemic outbreak? 2. What appears to be the role of digital technology in these challenges and strategies? 3. How can we understand the readiness and educational priorities of these Nordic schools in this time of crisis? Theoretically, we draw on the three main domains of purposes of education coined by Biesta (2015); qualification, socialisation and subjectification. The empirical ... |
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Classrooms going online : Nordic lower secondary teachers’ readiness at the COVID-19 outbreak |
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