This special issue examines the implementation of recently introduced educational reforms in various contexts and their translation into classroom practices across different school subjects. By adopting a comparative perspective, we aim to unravel the nuanced and varied ways in which these reforms impact both teaching and learning across different subjects or grade levels, or within the same subject over time, comparing different reforms in the same or different geographical locations.

Guest editors: Gréta Björk Guðmundsdóttir (University of Oslo), Lisbeth M. Brevik (University of Oslo), Kaja Granum Skarpaas (Oslo Metropolitan University), Gerard Doetjes (Østfold University College/Norwegian National Centre for English and other Foreign Languages in Education), Peter Nicolai Aashamar (University of Oslo)