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- Nilsson, Anna, et al.
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Stress hormone dynamics: an adaptation to migration?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Biology letters. - : The Royal Society. - 1744-9561 .- 1744-957X. ; 5, s. 480-483
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The hormone corticosterone (CORT) is an important component of a bird's response to environmental stress, but it can also have negative effects. Therefore, birds on migration are hypothesized to have repressed stress responses (migration-modulation hypothesis). In contrast to earlier studies on long-distance migrants, we evaluate this hypothesis in a population containing both migratory and resident individuals. We use a population of partially migratory blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in southern Sweden as a model species. Migrants had higher CORT levels at the time of capture than residents, indicating migratory preparations, adaptation to stressors, higher allostatic load or possibly low social status. Migrants and residents had the same stress response, thus contradicting the migration-modulation hypothesis. We suggest that migrants travelling short distances are more benefited than harmed by retaining the ability to respond to stress.
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- Sandell, Anna
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Elevperspektiv på lärare med utländsk bakgrund i den svenska skolan : En inledande kvalitativ studie med arabisktalande elever
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här rapporten redogör för en pilotstudie om arabisktalande elevers perspektiv på motiv som anges som skäl att anställa lärare med utländsk bakgrund. Tre motiv – förbättrad skolframgång, brobryggare mellan hem och skola samt identifieringsobjekt – framträder tydligast i tidigare utforskningar. Ett övergripande syfte med studien är att utforska funktionen hos lärare med utländsk bakgrund i en klass som sedan skolstarten haft parallell undervisning på modersmål och svenska. Ett bisyfte är att få elevperspektiv på tvåspråkig undervisning i en klass där alla elever har arabiska som modersmål. Nio elever i en klass med endast arabisktalande elever intervjuades. Samtliga var antingen födda i Sverige eller hade kommit till Sverige innan skolstart. Lärarna med utländsk bakgrund framträder med annan funktion än de med svensk bakgrund. Det är dock inte något identifieringsmotiv som framträder, utan istället är det de språkliga förtjänsterna som framhävs. Utan den tvåspråkiga undervisningen menar flertalet att de hade haft mycket svårt att tillägna sig undervisningen i den svenska skolan. De tenderar samtidigt att nedvärdera sitt modersmål i skolkontexten och att lyfta fram kunskaper i svenska som eftersträvansbart, både i och utanför skolans ramar. Detta tolkas också som del i en positionering bort från en ”andrafiering”. Ytterligare studier föreslås för breddning och fördjupning kring lärare med utländsk bakgrund i den svenska skolan.
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- Sandell, Anna
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Gendered positionings in education
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Educational segregation concerns democracy and equality, since individuals are positioned differently in relation to power, economy, work opportunities etc. During the late twentieth century, Swedish educational politics have aimed to broaden the recruitment to higher education. Both concerning gender and concerning class. The recruitment is however still skewed, due to social reproduction, and it starts (at the latest) with the choice of upper secondary school education. Young men and women’s educational segregation challenges the Swedish gender equality goals. Even more so, since the segregation is more pronounced when class is added as a factor. This paper presents some results from a study of 35 Swedish ninth graders, in a town with a history of labour work and low transition to higher education. Through reasonings of traditional gender divisions and interests, they reproduce gender dichotomy and thereby justify educational segregation. The paper further discusses these boys and girls’ positionings away from traditional female domains, the girls’ tendency to be individualized to a greater extent than boys, and the different (gendered) frames of action they perceive and act within.
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- Sandell, Anna
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Utbildningssegregation och självsortering : Om gymnasieval, genus och lokala praktiker
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores and analyzes segregation and self-sorting in education. It aims at discussing how this relates to gender, individualization and young men and women's positionings in local practices, through choices of upper secondary school education. It focuses on how young men and women cope with and adapt to the changing society in late modernity. The thesis is based on three empirical studies as well as national and local statistics. Observations in a natural science programme class at upper secondary school, interviews with study and vocational counsellors and statistics made the foundation for an interview study with 35 ninth graders about to make their choice of upper secondary school education in a middle-sized city with tradition of labour work. Statistics show a clear segregation among girls and boys at upper secondary school, especially when differentiated by class, geography, and to some extent ethnicity. The segregation continues on higher levels of education and then on to the labour market. This challenges political goals, both in gender equality and in education. It also challenges the late modernity demand for individualization. Theoretically this is explored with Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital as well as with late modernity concepts of cultural release, individualization, agency and positioning. Gender is explored by Harding's model for analyzing the gender order. The interview study shows that both girls and boys distance themselves rhetorically from what is traditionally considered female. Both female domains and behaviour are lowly ranked. Girls? strategy is to choose gender neutral marked programmes. They experience restrictions on basis of their gender, and want to use education as a means to break gender patterns. The boys? also positioned themselves, but to a higher extent to avoid divergence from the hegemonic masculinity. These differences could not be seen in the observation study, which is interpreted as a result of the self-sorting young people do in relation to their gender and class. The conclusion is that the place encourages girls and boys to act differently. The relation between structures and agency differs. Girls are, in the interview study, encouraged to have a broader perspective on education, future professions, moving and so on. Their future can also be looked for outside the place and the positionings they now possess. Boys are encouraged to have a narrower perspective on the same phenomenons. The place also enables for the boys to stay to a higher extent than for the girls. The boys have, for example, a local labour market that corresponds to their choices. It is suggested that agency should be better supported in school. The pupils themselves stressed the importance of getting alternative experiences, for example through the work experience programme. It is also of importance that teachers encourage pupils to make changes in positions. The counsellors stressed the importance of doing outreached work and find pupils that do not voluntarily come to counselling. Through counselling, the pupils can be given tools for opening alternative ways. The gender marking of programmes could be loosened by introducing branches that attract the opposite gender. The naming of the programmes should also be under consideration. New technology and computers as means to enable changes in positionings are discussed.
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- Zachrisson, Anna, et al.
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Tourism and protected areas : motives, actors and processes
- 2006
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1745-1590 .- 1745-1604. ; 2:4, s. 350-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the paradigm shift in nature conservation policy towards the inclusion of local inhabitants in the planning and management of protected areas, tourism is emphasised as a means to achieve economic development in peripheral areas. Governance issues and the real impacts from tourism on development are thus often under scrutiny. This article focuses on the role of tourism in the political process of designating protected areas. How does the inclusion of the tourism argument affect designation processes? What kind of tourism is being promoted and how can it be conceptualised with regard to human views of the use of nature? An ecostrategic framework is presented to illustrate the essential land-use choices available. Three cases of protected area designation processes are used to address the issue of tourism: the failure of the Kiruna National Park proposal and the successful implementation of the snowmobile regulation area in Funäsdalen and Fulufjället National Park. The analysis shows that while tourism may increase local acceptance of protected areas, the power of this argument also depends on contextual and process factors.
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- Zachrisson, Anna, et al.
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Tourism and protected areas : Motives, actors and processes
- 2006
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management. - 1745-1590. ; 2:4, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the paradigm shift in nature conservation policy towards the inclusion of local inhabitants in planning and management of protected areas, tourism is emphasized as a way to achieve economic development in peripheral areas. Governance issues and the real impacts from tourism on development are thus often under scrutiny. In this article, the focus is on the role of tourism in the political process of protected area designation. How does the inclusion of the tourism argument affect designation processes? What kind of tourism is being promoted and how can it be conceptualized with regard to human views of the use of nature? An ecostrategic framework is presented to illustrate the essential land use choices available. Three cases of protected area designation processes are used to address the issue of tourism; the failure of the Kiruna National Park proposal and the successfully implemented snowmobile regulation area in Funäsdalen and Fulufjället National Park. The analysis shows that tourism indeed may increase local acceptance of protected areas, but how powerful this argument is depends on contextual and process factors as well.
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