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- Aspelin, Jonas, et al.
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Lärares professionella/personliga utveckling
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 27-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article discusses what professional personal development means, with respect to teacher students and professionally active teachers. To begin with, the discussion on teacher socialization is placed in a larger societal context, where changed conditions for the teacher profession are taken note of. Furthermore, in order to position the concept and interpret its meaning, the concepts “learning” and “reflection” are questioned. In conclusion, it is suggested that the conceptual pair “creativity/ relationship” can constitute a fruitful complement to dominating discourses about the teacher profession.
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- Asplund Carlsson, Maj, 1948, et al.
(författare)
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"När han är arg är han turkisk". Identitetsskapande i Lin Hallbergs kompisbokstrilogi
- 2008
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Ingår i: EDUCARE. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; 4:1, s. 7-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With a background in current theories of identification and identifying processes, our aim is to study how ideologies of identity interpellate children in narrative texts such as Lin Hallberg’s trilogy of Kompisboken, Bästisboken and Svikarboken. We study how the texts offer, mirror and perform various identities in their characterization of children and adults in a multicultural context. The issue is how the different characters are created through chains of articulation, of equivalence and difference, of properties, actions and performances. The four main child characters are construed around two dyads – male and female, native and foreign – and as well as the minor characters – parents and teachers – they display subject positions which are restricted and basically locked in a normative matrix. Thus, these texts do not afford children alternative identity constructions or resistance to stereotypical identities of gender or ethnicity.
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- Hartsmar, Nanny, et al.
(författare)
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The right of all to inclusion in the learning process : Second language learners working in a technology workshop
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :3, s. 43-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With its background in research on the development of the second language and the language use of immigrant children as portrayed in political discourse, this article discusses the significance of the mother tongue in the access of newly-arrived pupils to teaching in school subjects while the development of their second language is in its earliest stages. The starting point for the project is a socio-cultural perspective of teaching and the development of knowledge, and that language is discourse. If one sees citizenship as an expressed goal of education with the aim of stimulating inclusion and critical thought, language plays a decisive role in how all voices can make themselves heard. Two preparatory classes in Malmö were invited to problem-solving work sessions in the technical workshop at the School of Education. The student teachers acted as supervisors and observers alternately, and documented the conversations that took place. Sequences of conversation were recorded for analysis. The study illuminates and problematises the content of the conversations during problem-solving, what initiatives to conversation are taken by pupils and students, what the possibilities of problem-solving using the mother tongue are, and what the pupils’ texts contain and if they are functional, in the sense that it is possible to understand what the pupil wants to mediate to the reader. Excerpts from the recordings show that both children and students use a variety of “strategies” in the conversations and this has a number of consequences for the processes of knowledge.
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959
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Fostran till kulturentreprenör : Förortsskolor, estetiska praktiker och karriärvägar
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 7-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper young people’s use of and relation to dance, theatre and aesthetic practices is investigated. In what ways can aesthetic practices play an important role in young people’s career expectations and identity formation? The empirical material consists primarily of a case study of an amateur theatre group in a Swedish suburb and complementary interviews. The focus is on the one hand on the different learning processes taking place, and on the other hand on the intersection between the practices of theatre, the schooling system and a multicultural context. Consequently, this is also a study of young people’s career patterns and lifestyles. The results imply that the aesthetic practices create openings for experimenting with identities and for hybridity, that is, for the complex combination of different types of identities. By developing an intermediate area in which the stable is dissolved, “traditional” distinctions are partially erased and reconstructed. The multicultural context and the societal structures are not that present. This is rather a study of self-development, individualization and an ongoing neo-liberal transformation of schools, learning processes and identities.
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- Jönsson, Anders, 1970-, et al.
(författare)
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Underlag till ramverk för en provbank i grundskolan
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare - Vetenskapliga skrifter. - 1653-1868. ; :2, s. 57-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This report compares and analyzes a selection of item banks with regard to the proposed purposes of a future item bank for Swedish compulsory school. Several purposes are presented, but the formative purpose, with its potential to support schools and teachers in their efforts to help the students reach the national goals, is seen as the most important. The item bank can realize this purpose by making the goals clearer and more specific. Furthermore, an item bank can aid the students in reaching the national goals by providing high-quality tasks; assessing students’ strengths and weaknesses. An item bank can also contribute to increased agreement between different assessors, with regard to student fulfilment of the national goals, by showing how the national goals can be assessed. This, however, might be restricted to the tasks provided by the item bank. On condition that the proposed item bank includes resources for developing teachers’ assessment competence in a more general way, both formative and summative purposes for classroom assessment can be favoured. That the item bank could indeed have this function is shown by the analysis of international experiences.
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- Jönsson, Anders, et al.
(författare)
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Underlag till ramverk för en provbank i grundskolan
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 57-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I denna artikel jämförs och analyseras ett urval av provbanker i relation till de föreslagna syftena för en framtida provbank i grundskolan. Flera syften presenteras, men det formativa syftet, med dess potential att stötta skolor och lärare i deras arbete med att hjälpa eleverna nå de nationella målen, ses som det viktigaste. Provbanken kan uppnå detta syfte genom att förtydliga och konkretisera målen. En provbank kan dessutom hjälpa eleverna att nå de nationella målen genom att bistå med uppgifter av hög kvalitet samt stöd för att bedöma elevernas styrkor och svagheter. En provbank kan även bidra till ökad likvärdighet i bedömningen genom att visa hur de nationella målen kan bedömas. Denna effekt riskerar dock vara begränsad till de uppgifter som finns i provbanken. Om den föreslagna provbanken även inkluderar resurser för att vidareutveckla lärarnas bedömningskompetens, kan emellertid effekten eventuellt överskrida de uppgifter som tillhandahålls i provbanken, vilket visas genom analyser av internationella erfarenheter.
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- Markström, Ann-Marie
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Förskolans utvecklingssamtal : ett komplex av aktiviteter i tid och rum
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 51-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article highlights the construction of parent-teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool and activities related to them. Drawing on an ethnographic study the analysis focuses on the actors´ contributions to the conference and what resources are used. The empirical material consists of audio taped parent-teacher conferences and observations of everyday activities related to them. The results show that children, parents and preschool teachers are all involved in parent-teacher conferences. It is argued that different activities are initiated and governed by the institutional framework of the parent-teacher conference, and that it is almost an imperative for all the actors to be active in this process: to fill in forms, have talks in preschool or at home and then report and use these activities in the conference. In addition, the different activities that construct the parent-teacher conference have pedagogical implications by influencing the children and parents to become self-reflective in specific ways.
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- Månsson, Annika
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The construction of "the competent child" and early childhood care : Values education among the youngest children in a nursery school
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :3, s. 21-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The phenomenon I focus on in this article is the construction of “the competent child”, which has developed from both psychology and later the sociology of childhood and has influenced the Swedish Childhood Education. One purpose of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical signs in this construction of “the competent child” and to contribute to the discussion of the influence of a new understanding of children in a nursery practice. In addition to the theoretical part of the article, I present analysed material from a limited case study. I have chosen a Reggio Emilia-inspired nursery, with its emphasis on democracy and view of children as competent and active, to shed light on the connections between this view and a values education. I also aim to problematise this paradigm of childhood. The methods used in the present study are field notes and video recordings. Material from my case study illustrates how values education is expressed in a child care practice.
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- Peterson, Tomas
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When the field of sport crosses the field of physical education
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö University. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :3, s. 83-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The two main arenas of organised sport in Sweden are sport clubs, in the form of voluntary organisations, and the school subject Physical Education and Health. Thus sport is constructed within two different social fields, in Bourdieus sense. These are relatively autonomous fields, with their own ideals and consecration instances, their own values and positions fought for, and its own appropriate dispositions. The basic aim of school sport is to enable each individual take the responsibility for his or her body in a lifetime perspective, whereas club sport is based on competition and strives towards selection, ranking and elitism. In 2003, the Swedish government made a “hand-shake” (Handslaget) with the The Swedish Sports Confederation, offering one billion Swedish crowns over a period of four years to local sport clubs in order to create project that will engage more children in organised sport. On of the themes for creating projects is by way of sport clubs collaborating with schools, so that within the school day time pupils will be exposed to club sport – either through club instructors coming to the school or the pupils coming to the club facilities. But what happens when an activity constructed on one social field, and according to the specific conditions of that field, is simply lifted over to another social field? In this paper I discuss some consequences emanated from such a process. Keywords: Social Field, Sport, Physical Education, Handslaget/the Handshake.
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- Qvortrup, Jens
(författare)
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Childhood and politics
- 2008
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :3, s. 7-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our culture’s attitudes towards children are ambiguous – as found also in the relationship between children and politics. The protective mood that has befallen children over the last two centuries entails their separations from adults – and from the serious business of economics and politics. How do we deal with the dilemma, which as a consequence makes it difficult to have a discourse about children and politics? This article nevertheless makes some reflections over the theme and suggests that one can, as far as politics is concerned, in principle talk about (a) children as subjects, (b) children/childhood as a non-targeted object (i.e. in terms of structural forces’ impact), (c) children/childhood as targeted objects (political initiatives having children in mind), and finally as (d) instrumentalised objects. The thorny question raised in each case is to which extent children are beneficiaries or if that is the case primarily as a side effect of gains to adults/adult society. Would public investments in children have been made to the current extent, if expectations of a surplus return were not an option?
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