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- Bennich-Björkman, Li
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Universiteten, kreativiteten och politikens aningslöshet
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 35-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is concerned with what knowledge that can be gained from research on creativity in psychology, social psychology and organizational theory on the one hand and how research policies are conducted on the other. The thesis brought forward is that research on creative personalities and how organizations promoting creativity function does not inform Swedish policy makers responsible for the higher education sector. There are few traces of the insights provided by such research in the presently conducted research policies. In the article, insights from creativity research are presented and discussed, focusing on the how organizations that generate creativity in research tend to be constructed. For example, in order to be able to mobilize the mental energy and concentration needed to produce creative, that is both new and relevant, ideas and solutions inner motivation as opposed to concerns about external assessments is highly crucial. All studies on creativity confirm that. To create the best possible preconditions for such inner motivation to guide researchers, the phase when ideas are worked out is the most sensitive one to safeguard from outside expectations. However, presently we have an organization for research funding based on competition between ideas, ideas that are then scrutinized and assessed at a quite early stage. Another precondition for creative thinking is a climate of risk-taking and non-conformity. The conformity produced by the present funding system where peers are acting as gatekeepers is becoming a problem to many researchers who manoever in a strategic rather than inner-directed manner in order to receive funding.
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- Berglund, Lars, et al.
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Profession, forskning och praktik : 30 rektorers syn på specialpedagogisk professionalitet
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 39-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a synthesis of four investigations made by students at the special educational program at Malmö University. It describes how headmasters experience the professional role of the special needs pedagogue in schools. Research questions concerning the relationship between higher education and school practice are elucidated in the article. The responses are analyzed and problematized with the help of von Wright’s Action theory as well as of Dahllöf’s frame factor theory. In the interviews headmasters describe the special educational activities and the special pedagogue profession as multifaceted and complex. This is a situation which impedes good functioning and effective use of competence resources. Moreover, headmasters are frequently caught between the visions of policy instruments and school practice, not least concerning situational acting, and the question of short or long term planning and acting.
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- Kupferberg, Feiwel
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Läraruppdragets egenart och rollmodeller : kreativitetsregimer i hybridmoderniteten
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 53-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What does learning to become a professional mean and how can the scientific study of various forms of professional education help those institutions that educate teachers understand better what becoming a professional teacher means in contemporary Swedish society? In this inauguration lecture as new professor of education at Malmo University, I argue that the traditional understanding of what it means to enter a profession that we find in the subdiscipline “the sociology of professions,” has had an unfortunate tendency to overestimate the importance of scientifically grounded knowledge and underestimate other forms of relevant knowledge and experience. In order to conceptualize such an alternative view of analyzing professional education and learning, I suggest the concepts of “creativity regimes” and “hybrid modernity.” Whereas the former concept helps us to clarify how professional education can help students to cope with new situations in a creative manner within their own profession, the concept of hybrid modernity suggests that the professional education of teachers can also gain from studying other types of professional education, as this could broaden the creative competence of future teachers. What I am suggesting is thus that rather than trying to prepare teachers for a career as researchers – which represents a particular creativity regime where critique is the dominant norm in which students are professionally socialized – the education of teachers should be organized around the dominant norm of the pedagogical creativity regime, which is dialogue. Teaching has its own role expectations, norms and identity, but in a society which is increasingly hybridized, being inspired by other models is both a virtue and necessity This role-modeling should not drive out the core competence of teaching but rather supplement it.
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- Lindström, Lars
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Kan kreativitet läras ut? En bildpedagogisk översikt
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 7-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is divided into four sections. The first of these provides a review of research on creativity. Case studies of artists and of children and young people, experimental studies in psychology as well as anthropological evidence suggest that creative work has a number of dimensions with educational implications. For example, students should be given ample time to pursue ideas; they should be given credit for being adventurous and willing to take risks; they should be encouraged to combine production with perception and reflection; and they should be given opportunities to assess their own performance and to get feedback from peers and teachers. The next section examines some unexpected results from a major Swedish study on the development of creative skills, from age five to nineteen. For example, the study did not confirm the commonly held belief that the quality of children’s art works stagnates in school. With regard to process criteria, however, referring to the capacity to work independently, evaluate one’s work, and so on, students in comprehensive school appeared to stagnate or show only insignificant improvement. The findings indicate that self-assessment, as well as investigative work, inventiveness and the ability to use models, are not learned by life experience or maturation alone. The third section presents a meta-analytic study by Folkert Haanstra on the effects of art education on aesthetic perception. Haanstra demonstrated that a combination of studio art and reflective art education is most effective in bringing about changes in the ways people understand art. The fourth and final section discusses the use of portfolios to foster an interaction between studio art and reflective art education. A portfolio project in the Netherlands suggests that the school can be reformed from within, if teachers are given opportunities to co-operate around issues such as evaluation, assessment and curriculum development.
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- Söderman, Johan, et al.
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Traditionsbärare och fostrare : samtal om lärande med två amerikanska rappare
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 7-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research about non-institutional musical environments, like hiphop, is important when education and learning are being discussed. The literature on aesthetic informal learning is limited. We need to know more about how learning is organised in autonomous and musical contexts. In this article two female rappers from New York City are in focus. The rapper Jean Grae is a Grammy nominated rapper who is well-known around the world. Toni Blackman is a hiphop ambassador, appointed by the U.S. Department of State. Her different social and educational projects on hiphop have been given a lot of attention in the press. The purpose of this article is to study what kinds of learning aspects appear in the rappers’ talk about their work in interviews, group conversations, magazines and selfproduced texts. The results show how the rappers stand out like fosterers, popular adult educators, jazz musicians, tradition-bearers, specialists and artists. Linguistic reformulations are used to analyze the complexity of the rappers' activities. Finally, the article discusses how school can be a fosterer and a tradition-bearer and at the same time positive and open to new forms of popular culture.
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- Westerberg, Boel
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”Jag tar varken kristendom eller islam på allvar, jag går efter vad jag själv tycker”
- 2007
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 53-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on a Research-project called Upper Secondary-pupils´ Creation of Meaning in the Multicultural Classroom. In this project I and my fellow researcher followed a class during their three years in Upper Secondary School, observing them in lessons and performing interviews with them twice a term. In this article, my main interlocutor/informant, who goes by the name Argita in the text, is a girl of Albanian background, but who has had almost all her education in Swedish schools. I focus on three problems, or questions: how and when are existential questions discussed in the classroom and which role do they play in the teachers’ choice of subjects? Second, I am interested in the multicultural classroom, or the culturally heterogeneous classroom, as I prefer to call it. What does it denote and add up to? I suggest that “multicultural” implies much more than just immigrants and Swedes meeting in class. It is also about boys and girls, pupils with different economic and cultural background and pupils representing different youth-cultures. Finally, I discuss what is meant by the terms “offering meaning” and “creating meaning” in school. Does all teaching offer meaning to pupils? I do not think so. Rather, I think that pupils, such as Argita, have a capacity to create meaning, in their schoolwork and in their lives, regardless of what school has to offer.
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