What about Students’ Right to the “Right” Education? An Entrepreneurial Attitude to Teaching and Learning

Abstract

This study puts focus on teaching and learning attitudes in two schools, one in England and other in Sweden. The purpose is to highlight and problematize teaching and learning in a changing society and find out what happens when two school cultures learn from each other. In Sweden, the attitude is “entrepreneurial learning” and in England “personal learning and thinking skills,” different names, but the same underpinning approach to teaching and learning. This chapter is based on an “open” questionnaire, classroom observations and group interviews with teachers. In our way of analyzing the material, we have chosen the concepts dualistic and integrative perspective on knowledge and school development. Following themes was visualized: authority – authoritarian, interest – meaninglessness, and control – trust. Results show both similarities and differences between the two countries. However, the most unexpected result was what the teachers focused on in the classroom. The Swedish teachers paid more attention to the relationship to the students, while the English teachers focused more on the relationship to learning.

Citation

Leffler, E. and Falk-Lundqvist, Å. (2014), "What about Students’ Right to the “Right” Education? An Entrepreneurial Attitude to Teaching and Learning", International Educational Innovation and Public Sector Entrepreneurship (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2013)0000023016