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- Ahl, Linda, 1970-
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The Potential of Dominating Mathematics Textbooks in Sweden to Support the Learning and Teaching of Proportional Reasoning
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Proportional reasoning is a cornerstone in compulsory mathematics education. It is considered to be one of the most challenging topics to tech and learn. This article discusses the potential of two Swedish textbooks to support the teaching and learning of proportion and proportional reasoning. Since curricular resources, such as textbooks are teachers’ most important tools for planning and enacting lessons; the support they offer has great impact on how teaching and learning will be designed. To analyze the textbooks examined here, I use a framework developed by Shield and Dole, based on research. The study provides insights of the strengths and weaknesses in the presented structure regarding proportional reasoning in the most commonly used textbooks in Swedish lower secondary school. Teachers could use these insights, when making decisions about how to use their textbooks. This study is likely to map the terrain of Sweden, due to the textbooks widespread use.
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- Ahlström, Karin, 1964-
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How Meetings affect the accomplishment of Broad Responsibility in a municipal Company
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- Municipal companies are important actors in the pursuit of the Agenda 2030 goals and are often formally obliged by their owners to work in this direction. This has however shown to be quite challenging, and managers lack knowledge about how to develop new ways of organizing to meet such responsibilities. The aim of this article is therefore to understand how the work of a top management team in meetings affects the accomplishment of broad responsibility. The analysis, which is underpinned by a communicative constitution of organizing (CCO) perspective, shows how the way specific communicative practices (agendas, minutes, timeslots, turn-taking, and stakeholder voicing) are enacted leads to the re-production of parts of the organization at the expense of the whole, the present at the expense of the future, and profit at the expense of the other dimensions of sustainability. This study contributes to the literature on public management by showing how communicative practices enacted in meetings make certain concerns present and others absent, thereby creating the conditions for the accomplishment of broad responsibility.
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- Ahlström, Karin, 1964-, et al.
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Municipalities working for Agenda 2030: Review and Agenda for future Research
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- Considering the population density of urban areas, their levels of consumption and emissions, their influence on social equality and inclusion, and the resources and power allocated to urban actors, it is important to examine how municipalities organize work as they proceed to implement Agenda 2030 and to what effect. A systematic literature review is used to analyse 77 articles, published between 2017 and 2022, that examine the sustainability activities of municipal actors in Europe. Two themes are identified and explained: a) a paradigm shift in local government; b) the mobilization of socio-technical approaches (e.g., smart cities and regenerative land use). Also, the limitations of the literature and some areas for future research are discussed: research comparing practices across regions and countries; research analysing the interaction of different initiatives within a municipality; and research examining the role of municipal companies.
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- Ahlström, Karin, 1964-, et al.
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Negotiating shared Responsibility for sustainable urban Development: Pronouns and In-here-ness as rhetorical Resources
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- This article explores how issues of shared responsibility are negotiated in the realm of managing collaborative efforts between organizational actors for sustainable urban development abiding to the Agenda 2023 – with a particular focus on the rhetorical resources used in such negotiations. Through empirical material from recorded meetings in a one-year project at a municipal company, the article contributes to previous literature on collaborative ways of organizing and managing complex public challenges. With a focus on the discursive construction of shared responsibility, the concept of in-here-ness is introduced to denote accepted and assumed responsibility, which may shift through the use of pronouns: from a narrow ‘I’ or ‘we’ of stakeholders to a wider ‘we’ of collaborating parties. The article further contributes to the empirical field of sustainable development at the municipal level.
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- Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin, 1976-, et al.
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A Hybrid Case-Based System in Stress Diagnosis and Treatment
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- Computer-aided decision support systems play anincreasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment.However, they are difficult to build for domains where thedomain theory is weak and where different experts differ indiagnosis. Stress diagnosis and treatment is an example of such adomain. This paper explores several artificial intelligencemethods and techniques and in particular case-based reasoning,textual information retrieval, rule-based reasoning, and fuzzylogic to enable a more reliable diagnosis and treatment of stress.The proposed hybrid case-based approach has been validated byimplementing a prototype in close collaboration with leadingexperts in stress diagnosis. The obtained sensitivity, specificityand overall accuracy compared to an expert are 92%, 86% and88% respectively.
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