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Abstract
With a basis in conclusions from a comparative meta-synthesis of teaching and learning, the question of structured and teacher-led teaching in Swedish comprehensive schools is discussed and analysed. The aim is to illustrate the development of results and changes in teaching patterns in Swedish comprehensive schools in relation to new regulations in the curriculum concerning structured teaching. The result shows that in current research there is some support for structured teaching but, at the same time, a gradual and parallel development of the pupil’s personal discovery and learning is emphasised. Regardless of the grade of structure, the quality of interaction and communication in teaching seems to be conclusive. One superior teaching dimension consists of structure and interaction.
Notes
1. CARL – Comparative Analysis of Research on Teaching and Learning (Håkansson & Sundberg, Citation2012a).
2. DCU stands for Danish Clearinghouse for Educational Research; a unit at Denmark’s educational university, which works with developing systematic research reviews within the educational field on the basis of the latest available research. The so-called ‘konceptnotat’ the research group developed for working with systematic reviews has been the inspiration for our ‘7 steps model’ together with Thorne et al., (Citation2004) and Noblit and Hare (Citation1988).
3. A list of the research reviews included is presented in Appendix 1.
4. The critical question on the relevance of systematic research reviews within the educational field, often connected to method and evidence discussions, will not be held explicitly in this text (see further, e.g. Bohlin, Citation2010; Davies, Citation2000; Evaldsson & Nilholm, Citation2010; Krejsler, Citation2011).
5. Visible Learning is a meta-metasynthesis of 800 meta-analyses based on 50,000 studies with ca. 80 million pupils.
6. What is more, the concept, structured teaching should be regarded as a tautology, as the word, teaching, already accomodates teacher guidance of goal-oriented processes (cf. Sverige, Citation2010, 1 chap. 3§).