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- Quennerstedt, Ann, 1967-, et al.
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Researching children's rights in education : sociology of childhood encountering educational theory
- 2014
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology of Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-5692 .- 1465-3346. ; 35:1, s. 115-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to explore and develop a theoretical approach for children's rights research in education formed through an encounter between the sociology of childhood and John Dewey's educational theory. The interest is mainly methodological, in the sense that the primary ambition of the investigation is to suggest a fruitful and useful theoretical base for formulating research problems and undertaking research in children's rights in education. The paper argues that, particularly in educational settings, research into children's rights can and must be attributed to children both as full-status humans in a socio-politically contextual present, and as continually growing and changing, immature and dependent humans. From the theoretical encounter suggested in the paper, the much-used distinction of the child as either being' or becoming' can be reconsidered, and another point of departure for the study of children's rights issues in education can be discerned.
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- Arneback, Emma, 1974-, et al.
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Locations of racism in education : a speech act analysis of a policy chain
- 2016
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Ingår i: JEP. - : Routledge. - 2158-9232. ; 31:6, s. 773-788
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how racism is located in an educational policy chain and identifies how its interpretation changes throughout the chain. A basic assumption is that the policy formation process can be seen as a chain in which international, national and local policies are ‘links’ – separate entities yet joined. With Sweden as the national example, the article analyses how racism in education is framed at different policy levels and which anti-racist actions are proposed. The article thereby clarifies who or what is, at different policy levels, perceived to be the location of racism. A first finding concerns terminology: throughout the policy chain the problem of racism is discussed in terms of ‘discrimination’. At European, national and local level, discrimination is mostly associated with ‘ethnicity’, thereby removing from policy a possibly stronger language for combating racism. A second finding is that the location of racism in education moves gradually through the chain from an institutional to an individual location of racism, with an increasing focus on the significance of the student rather than the importance of societal structures. The importance of circumstances for policy formation is a third main finding in the article.
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- Bourbour, Maryam, 1977-
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Digital technologies in preschool education : The interplay between interactive whiteboards and teachers' teaching practices
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is aimed at exploring the ways in which a digital technology, the interactive whiteboard (IWB), interplays with preschool teachers’ teaching practices. In the literature and ongoing debates there are different claims about if and how digital technologies can contribute to children’s development and solving preschool educational challenges. The ways children learn from and by digital technologies have been widely studied, however, there is relatively little research on how digital technologies interplay with teachers’ teaching. Correspondingly, the approach taken here to the ways in which digital technologies contribute to early childhood education is based on preschool teachers’ practices and reasonings.In particular the focus is placed on the following research questions. How do preschool teachers reason about the embedding of IWB into their teaching practices? How do preschool teachers use IWB to structure their teaching practices? How do preschool teachers scaffold children’s learning processes in a context where IWB is used? How do IWBs mediate teaching actions? and What is privileged in the IWB-mediated teaching actions?To address these research questions, three sets of empirical data have been collected. These datasets, including interviews with preschool teachers and video observations of their teaching using IWB, were collected in 2012-2013 within the frame of the licentiate thesis and in late 2017 and early 2018 within the framework of the PhD thesis. Analytically, the study is built on a sociocultural perspective that assumes that learning is a constant social process.The findings of this study provide empirical knowledge regarding how preschool teachers reason about their use of IWB in teaching. The findings of the study, further, show that preschool teachers use diverse strategies to structure their teaching practice using the opportunities that IWB offers. The teachers’ use of IWBs exemplifies the ways they take into account the available technological features to support children’s learning within their ZPD.In its identification of scaffolding actions, this study provides rich details about how preschool teachers use a particular digital technology, IWB, in their teaching to support children’s learning and development. Scaffolding is seen as a collaborative process where preschool teachers’ active participation and emotional support plays an important role in fulfilling the given practices, and leads children’s learning to a higher level. By exploring how teachers’ teaching actions are meditated by the mediational aspects of IWB and what is privileged in the IWB-mediated teaching actions, the current study, moreover, contributes to mapping the desirable or undesirable consequences of using digital technologies in early childhood education. It also exemplifies how the use of IWB interplays with preschoolt eachers’ teaching practices.The new dimensions to scaffolding theory constructed in this thesis, further, contribute to expanding of Wood et al. (1976) theory. This can have significance for other studies using digital technologies in educational settings and can contribute to early childhood education, since early interventions, such as the ways preschool teachers support children, are particularly crucial for a child’s learning and their development later on in life.
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- Brantefors, Lotta, et al.
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Teaching and learning children's human rights : A research synthesis
- 2016
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Ingår i: Cogent Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2331-186X. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study presented in this paper is a research synthesis examining how issues relating to the teaching and learning of children's human rights have been approached in educational research. Drawing theoretically on the European Didaktik tradition, the purpose of the paper is to map and synthesise the educational interest in children's rights research. The paper identifies the motives, content and processes of education for human rights suggested in research. The chosen publications are analysed in three steps, based on three didactic questions: what, how and why. Six educational categories in the teaching and learning of children's human rights are identified: involvement, agency, awareness, citizenship, respect for rights and social change. In each category, the motives, educational content and processes are clarified. A conclusion is that even though the motives for rights education vary, the content and processes in the education are about human relations and interaction.
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- Brantefors, Lotta, 1952-, et al.
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Teaching and learning processes in education for children’s human rights : a research synthesis
- 2016
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Ingår i: Cogent Education. - 2331-186X. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study presented in this paper is a research synthesis of earlier studies. Drawing theoretically on the northern European Didaktik tradition, the paper examines how issues relating to the teaching and learning of children’s human rights have been approached in educational research. The purpose of the paper is to map and synthesise the educational interest in children’s rights research with a view to identifying the motives, content and processes of education for human rights suggested in research. The chosen publications are analysed in three steps, based on three didactic questions: what, how and why. Six educational categories in the teaching and learning of children’s human rights are identified: involvement, agency, awareness, citizenship, respect for rights and social change. In each category, the motives, educational content and processes are clarified. A conclusion is that even though the motives for rights education vary, the content and processes in the education seem to rotate around human relations and interaction.
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- Casey, Ashley, et al.
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Between hope and happening : Problematizing the M and the P in models-based practice
- 2021
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786. ; 26:2, s. 111-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Advocacy through the work of many scholars in physical education and sport pedagogy highlights a significant direction towards which physical education is moving in light of calls for change. Importantly, and despite the 'newness' of the terms, 'pedagogical models' and 'Models-based Practice' (MbP) are beginning to shape the vocabulary of physical education and sport pedagogy. Purpose: To ask what happens if we take some of the 'good stuff associated with models and apply it in a different way while also taking some of the critical points raised towards models into consideration. Put simply, we (as scholars with different views on MbP) want to step off the beaten track to take a road less travelled and engage in a respectful, agonistic debate about the 'M' and the 'P' in MbP. Key arguments: From a practical perspective, the diversity of the language used in describing models and practices in physical education indicates both a growing excellence and tradition in the field and a degree of confusion. A number of phrases are currently used to identify the same concept with individuals unaware of alternative language use. At the heart of this paper lies the manner in which one interprets the use of the terms 'model', 'practice' and 'practise'. Discussion: Given the 'hope' inherent in pedagogical model development and implementation, we acknowledge that many of the negative or unintended consequences often arise as a result of the 'happening' both in research and in practice. However, by thinking in terms of what it is in students' actions that teachers and researchers should pay attention to in order for them to see what students learn, and in what direction this learning is developing, we are better able to see the outcomes of using MbP. In this way, the hope embedded in the chosen model, and the happenings teachers or researchers aspire to see, could be better aligned. Modelling and practicing through the focus on adaption and negotiation in various complex contexts has the potential to expand the field more than blueprints that potentially narrow the field. Conclusions: By recognising the dangers inherent in an essentialist notion of models (i.e. by nouning or proper nouning them), and by remembering the roles set aside for teachers in the development of pedagogical models, it is important that the practising of MbP always retains a very real sense of becoming. By continuing to problematize the M and the P, and by engaging in respectful and agonistic debate, we are better able to unite the hope and the happening of MbP.
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- Casey, Ashley, et al.
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Models-Based Practices : Problematizing the M and the P in MBP
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background/purpose: While some argue that Models-Based Practice (MBP) has a number of laudable and desirable ambitions and outcomes (Kirk, 2013), others contend that those advocating for MBP must be mindful of wider debates in the field about the overall purpose of physical education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP) (Dillon et al. 2016). The purpose of this presentation is to begin to articulate the types of questions PESP might consider now and in the future as regards the M and P in MBP.The main points: The overarching intention of MBP is the achievement of specific, relevant, and challenging learning objectives that apportion more time for learners to be engaged with learning, and which ultimately strives toward par- ticular outcomes relative to each model. Interestingly, however, the preferred perspective researchers have pursued in MBP-related research is that of the teacher and to a lesser degree the coach (Casey, 2014). Whilst there are those who have focused on the learner (Hastie,1998), the aim of this presentation is to present a num- ber of questions about MBP; questions about the what, how, why, who, when and where of teaching, learning and context.Addressing the themes: We address the sub-themes by considering the ways in which our understanding of MPB might be better fo- cused to pedagogically engage learners in transformative learning and teaching. Further, by asking questions of practice we are better able explore innovative perspectives on PESP.Conclusions/implications: This paper concludes by problematizing the M and the P in MBP and the notion that practice, when related to models, become singular. We argue, given the diversity that exists in schools, states and countries as well as the diversity between young people, that the idea of a practice should be expanded into practices and, in doing so, acknowledge the multifarious ways in which learning might become manifest.
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- Englund, Tomas, et al.
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Education as a Human and a Citizenship Right - Parents' Rights, Children's Rights, or...? : The Necessity of Historical Cotextualization
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Rights. - Philadelphia : Routledge. - 1475-4835 .- 1475-4843. ; 8:2, s. 133-138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper serves as an introduction to three following papers, analyzing the contextual background to the different treaties - the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights , and the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child - and focusing on how the relations between parents' rights and children's rights in the matter of education were shaped during the various drafting stages. The paper forms part of a project that intends to study the meaning and consequences of the increased tendency to view education from a perspective of rights. More specifically, the project aims to focus on the implications of parental rights and to analyze potential contradictions between parents' and children's rights in education.
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