Publications Archives - Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students

School staff members’ professional agency in Finland, Scotland, and Sweden – a comparative study

Posted on 13th March 2025 by Kirsty Shand

Hökkä, P., Räikkönen, E., Vähäsantanen, K., Sarazin, M., Lund, A., Pantić, N. (2025, in press). School staff members’ professional agency in Finland, Scotland, and Sweden – a comparative study. Teaching and Teacher Education

CRFR Blog: “It’s all human stories”: Teachers’ Relational Agency to Accommodate Migrant Students in Scotland, Finland and Sweden

Posted on 25th February 202525th February 2025 by Kirsty Shand

Dr Cecilia Gialdini, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has written a blog for the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships following her work with the TEAMS Project.

CRFR Briefing: What makes the difference in migrant education? Analysing teachers’ agency in universalist and targeted approaches

Posted on 25th February 202525th February 2025 by Kirsty Shand

We are pleased to share the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships’ briefing: What makes the difference in migrant education? Analysing teachers’ agency in universalist and targeted approaches.

Exploring integration in schools by using the lens of cultural diversity and multilingualism in policy documents from Finland, Scotland and Sweden

Posted on 27th January 2025 by Kirsty Shand

Tarnanen, M., Oral, D., Niklasson, E., de Riba-Mayoral, S., Vähäsantanen, K., Manninen, E. & Pantić, N. (2024). Exploring integration in schools by using the lens of cultural diversity and multilingualism in policy documents from Finland, Scotland and Sweden. Linguistics and Education 0(0), 1-21. Full article: Exploring integration in schools by using the lens of cultural diversity […]

Pedagoginen yhteistyö kulttuurisesti ja kielellisesti moninaisessa kouluyhteisössä

Posted on 27th January 2025 by Kirsty Shand

Tarnanen, M., Kalalahti, M., & Palonen, T. (2023). Pedagoginen yhteistyö kulttuurisesti ja kielellisesti moninaisessa kouluyhteisössä. Oppimisen ja oppimisvaikeuksien erityislehti : NMI-bulletin, 33(4), 91-107. Pedagoginen yhteistyö kulttuurisesti ja kielellisesti moninaisessa kouluyhteisössä Artikkelissa tarkastellaan henkilöstön pedagogista yhteistyötä kahdessa koulussa, joissa on enemmän maahanmuuttotaustaisia oppilaita kuin suomalaisissa kouluissa yleensä. Pedagogisella yhteistyöllä tarkoitetaan henkilöstön yhteistä toimintaa, jonka tavoitteena on […]

Rethinking EAL Services to Support Inclusion of Migrant Students

Posted on 27th January 202527th January 2025 by Kirsty Shand

Gialdini C. & Pantić (2024). Rethinking EAL Services to Support Inclusion of Migrant Students. Language, Society and Policy. Rethinking EAL Services to Support Inclusion of Migrant Students Introduction This policy brief draws insights from a four-year cross-country study on teaching support for migrant students in Scotland, Sweden, and Finland. Through the lens of inclusive education […]

TEAMS Policy Brief: Rethinking the role of EAL teachers

Posted on 6th September 202425th February 2025 by Kirsty Shand

We are pleased to share our fifth policy brief, which focuses on “Rethinking the role of EAL teachers: Lessons learned on supporting migrant pupils in Scotland”.

Seeing Workplaces from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) Approach

Posted on 27th May 2024 by Kirsty Shand

Palonen T. Methods for Researching Professional Learning and Development – Challenges, Applications and Empirical Illustrations. (pp. 491-512), 2022. Seeing Workplaces from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) Approach Highlights The chapter introduces Social Network Analysis (SNA) in the context of work organizations, and displays how SNA contributes to workplace learning research by unveiling formal or hidden informal […]

TEAMS Policy Brief – Sweden

Posted on 3rd April 202425th February 2025 by Kirsty Shand

We are pleased to share our fourth policy brief, with further findings from the Swedish Team within the project.

Policy Brief – Finland

Posted on 27th March 202425th February 2025 by Kirsty Shand

We are pleased to share our third policy brief with you, with findings from the Finnish team within the project.