ABSTRACT

This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work.

Using a multidisciplinary and holistic approach, the book compares Nordic countries’ attitudes towards the digitalization of education and demonstrates the Nordic region’s position as digital front-runners in a European and a global context. The book provides up-to-date cases and future-oriented perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work. Chapters use empirical data gained from policy documents, interviews, and questionnaires to present nuanced discussions, theoretical perspectives, and implications for the future of digitalization in education.

Ultimately, this book’s reach far exceeds that of its Nordic contexts and will be of use to postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars across the globe involved with digital education, teacher education, and educational policy and politics more broadly.

Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

part Editors’ introduction to 2|39 pages

Digital leadership and organization

chapter 3|14 pages

From national digital strategy to local practice

A leadership challenge

chapter 5|12 pages

Reflections on leading for digitalization

Digging deeper into professional digital competence for school leaders using the PEAT-model

part Editors’ introduction to 3|51 pages

Sustainable digital ecosystems

part Editors’ introduction to 4|44 pages

Subjects, tools, and teaching in flux

chapter 10|14 pages

Co-constructing teacher education

Student agency and teacher educators' responses to a student-created podcast

part Editors’ introduction to 5|43 pages

Digital competence for teachers

chapter 12|17 pages

Adequate digital competence

Swedish teachers' pedagogical digital readiness in subject-based curricula

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion – knowing in a digital world

Learning, development and the hybrid nature of cognitive practices