Transnational Curriculum Standards and Classroom Practices

Ninni Wahlström is Professor of Education at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her current research focuses on transnational and national policy discourses and their implications for national curriculum and classroom teaching from a perspective of critical curriculum theory.Daniel Sundberg is Professor of Education at the Linnaeus University, where he is the co-leader of the SITE research group (together with Professor Ninni Wahlström). His main field of research is education reforms, curriculum and teaching, where changes over time and places in what counts as knowledge is central.

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• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Transnational Curriculum Standards, Curriculum Reforms and Classroom Practices – An Introduction (Ninni Wahlström and Daniel Sundberg) 2. The Travelling Reform Agenda: The Swedish Case Through the Lens of the OECD (Ninni Wahlström) 3. A Theoretical Framework: From Policy to Curriculum and Comparative Classroom Studies (Ninni Wahlström) 4. Mapping and Tracing Transnational Curricula in Classrooms—The Mixed Methods Approach (Daniel Sundberg) 5. The Recontextualisation of Policy Messages—The Local Authority as a Policy Actor (Gabriella Höstfält; Daniel Sundberg and Ninni Wahlström) 6. The Question of Teaching Talk: Targeting Diversity and Participation (Catarina Schmidt and Marianne Skoog) 7. The Selection of Content and Knowledge Conceptions in the Teaching of Curriculum Standards in Compulsory Schooling (Carl-Henrik Adolfsson and Daniel Alvunger) 8. Curriculum Standardisation—What Does It Mean for Classroom Teaching and Assessment Practices? (Daniel Sundberg) 9. From Transnational Curriculum Standards to Classroom Practices: The New Meaning of Teaching (Daniel Sundberg and Ninni Wahlström)