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- Jidesjö, Anders, et al.
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Vår stad 2030 och efterföljande rådslag : om kapacitet för utbildning och delaktighet
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report is the result of an external assessment based on qualitative interviews with 5 city planners, 9 teachers and 22 pupils participating in the project in 2015 and 2016.The empirical evidence indicate an appreciated project where city planners highlight the ability to reach out to young city dwellers, usually a difficult group to engage in city planning; teachers that stress the projects concrete but at the same time flexible design as a valuable resource in their present and future work; least but not last the pupils talk about the project as something that was real which in turn spurred their commitment to reach for quality in their work. At the end of the project these pupils expressed increased knowledge and engagement in sustainable development. Especially the social dimensions and the local perspective were seen as fresh and inspiring. At the same time teachers highlighted the solid frame of the project giving them more time to cooperate with each other and attend to supervise the pupils along the way.The assessment also finds that the different time-scales that guide the practices of city planners’, teachers’ and pupils’ pose a challenge for cooperation between the groups, as they work together for the first time. Here teachers has to become brokers between the longer time-horizons of the city planners and the much shorter time-horizon providing meaning to the pupils. Another obstacle is the institutional structures of the education system. Firstly it concerns the information infrastructure. The interviews show that the invitation reached teachers via informal channels and thus only reached teachers that was already known to be engaged in education for sustainable development. Secondly, and especially at the Gymnasium level, the organisation around courses prevented interdisciplinary approaches to education for sustainable development.Looking ahead the assessment finds a consensus among the participants that it has been a valuable experience. That all participating city planners and teachers seek for ways to repeat the project in one way or the other might be the best evidence for the projects quality. The results presented in this report are shortly framed and discussed in relation with some scientific studies concerned with learning, relevance and function of education and connections between education and societal development. The discussions points out the importance of social inclusion, personal fulfilment and education for all as capacities for urban planning and transformative approaches in societal and educational development.As the project moves on to new cities the assessment points to a few possible options for development. It could be valuable to develop strategies for reaching a broader range of teachers, ways to improve administrative support within the institutional structures of the participating schools. Thirdly, one way to strengthen the connection between the pupils increased interest and broader socio-political discussion could be to invite political and non-governmental organisations to participate either at the Rådslag* or in the preparations for it. This might be valuable since the engagement in sustainability issues has mainly been channelled into action at the individual level, mainly to consumption. Many participants have also asked for support for upcoming versions of Vår stad 2030. Developing support for the difficult step that would take Vår stad 2030 from an event to a part of the ordinary practices could perhaps be a valuable step to take in further development.
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- Tahirsylaj, Armend
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Teacher autonomy and responsibility variation and association with student performance in Didaktik and curriculum traditions
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Curriculum Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0022-0272 .- 1366-5839. ; 51:2, s. 162-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The primary objective of the study was to empirically test theoretical claims made about differences between Didaktik and curriculum traditions concerning teacher autonomy (TA) and teacher responsibility (TR). It tests the hypothesis that TA and TR are higher among Didaktik than curriculum countries. The second objective was to explore associations of TA and responsibility measures with students’ science performance? Nationally representative data from 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), collected through a two-step random selection process were used. For TA individual items Mann–Whitney rank-sum test was employed, while a difference of proportion test was used for TR items to examine the differences. Hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) was used to examine association of TA and TR items with students’ science performance in PISA 2009. Overall and contrary to the initial hypothesis, teachers in curriculum countries enjoy both more autonomy and responsibility than teachers in Didaktik countries, but differences were substantively weak. Furthermore, within-country associations of autonomy and responsibility measures with students’ science performance were found in a few countries. Further research is recommended to address TA and responsibility and complexities that accompany them in current stakeholder-crowded school contexts.
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- Sjöström, Jesper
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Didactic modelling for socio-ecojustice
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education. - : University of Toronto Press. - 2560-8908. ; 10:1, s. 45-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In northern Europe and Scandinavia, there is a tradition called Didaktik. It can be seen as both the art of teaching and as the “science for teachers”, helping us teachers answering didactic questions about WHY?, WHAT? and HOW? to teach (and support learning). Many areas of subject-specific Didaktik have in recent decades evolved from mainly practice-based methodology to quite independent research areas. This applies, for example, to the field of science-Didaktik (i.e., Science Education). Part of this field has a special interest in educational activities for socio-ecojustice. For instance, it can include complex issues used in teaching to build bridges across different curriculum subjects, among them STEM-subjects, in support of sustainability, reflexive Bildung and socio-political activism. The focus in this paper is on so-called didactic models and modelling aiming at actions for socio-ecojustice. In particular, the paper presents a model for eco-reflexive Didaktik, an example of a didactic model. Didactic modelling is the name for the processes when didactic models are used and developed, often by researchers in collaboration with practitioners. The didactic model in focus here is based on philosophical ideas and orientations, such as holism, critical realism, egalitarianism, altruism, reconstructionism and critical pedagogy.
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- Danielsson, Kristina, Professor, 1961-, et al.
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Signs of Learning : Multiple Modes as Support for Interaction in a Linguistically Diverse Physics Classroom
- 2022
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Ingår i: Education Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 2227-7102. ; 12:10, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Students’ and teachers’ meaning making in science classrooms is dependent on language in a broad, multimodal, sense, comprising specialized lexicogrammar and ways of using semiotic resources such as models, diagrams, and subject specific symbols. Altogether, the multimodal demands of science can be challenging, in particular for students learning the language of instruction in parallel with the subject content. Yet, multimodal perspectives are scarce in research concerning science learning in linguistically diverse classrooms, where several students are educated in their second language. Drawing on designs for learning theory, the interaction in a linguistically diverse physics classroom was analyzed through the Learning Design Sequence model to investigate the teacher’s design for learning for students’ meaning-making about ‘sound’. Thereto, students’ ‘signs of learning’ regarding subject content and how to communicate content in line with the discourse of science was analyzed. The teacher’s design for learning gave the students opportunities to interact about content by use of different semiotic modes, with gradually higher demands regarding both content and how to express the content which appeared to support students’ development of content knowledge and competency to express this knowledge in line with the discourse of science. However, some of the teacher’s choices appeared to be a hindrance for the students.
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- Hammerin, Zofia, 1986-, et al.
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The Conscious Use of Relationship - How Teachers Promote Student Health in Their Everyday Teaching
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Conference on Educational Research, ECER.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- IntroductionThis study explores the role of the teacher in working with student health in high school. Teachers have been identified as crucial in promoting student health and wellbeing but it is traditionally not considered a teacher task. The article presents findings from an empirical study in which the views of the teachers are in focus.School is considered a suitable and vital arena for working with the health of children and young people. This can be done by implementing various programmes and initiatives lead by teachers or other professionals, or in a more informal way in the everyday school practice.Student health has been and still is a concern for the Student Health Services (SHS). It is however with the teacher that the students spend most of their time in school. A good relationship with the teacher, support from the teacher in meeting academic demands and classroom participation has proven beneficial to student health. There is also a well-documented reciprocal relationship between health and academic achievement. Overall, the same factors which promote learning, also promote health.In Sweden, where the study is set, student health work “shall be primarily preventive and promoting” (Education Act, 2010:800). Teachers are not explicitly tasked with health promotion but stipulated to cooperate with the SHS regarding student health. While the teacher is not presented as a central actor in the Education Act, other guiding documents highlight the teacher as important for student health. Teachers thus have a role in working with student health but what this role entails is not clear in the governing documents.The aim of the article is to contribute knowledge about how Swedish high school teachers describe their role(s) in working with student health.Brief Previous ResearchStudent health work has been empirically explored before but the role of the teacher in this work is a field in need of further empirical investigation. Much of the research regarding teachers’ involvement in student health work examines various programmes and initiatives implemented at the respective schools. The focus of this article is how teachers describe their role in the informal, everyday student health work, not in a programme or an initiative.Teacher involvement in health promotion has been criticized. Student mental health promotion can be regarded as an additional task to the existing abundance of teacher tasks. Expanding the role of the teacher is criticized as it can cause added stress and pressure. Lastly, teachers’ increased awareness of mental health problems among children and adolescents, can result in teachers starting to identify many behaviors and experiences previously deemed ordinary or understandable, as indicative of mental health problemsThis study contributes knowledge about how teachers describe their roles in student health promotion. This knowledge can be used to improve student health promotion further and contribute added understanding of the complex professional role of the teacher.Theoretical Points of DepartureThe study is based on theories of social constructivism in which social phenomena are understood and become active deeds by means of human interaction; people interpret, reinterpret, negotiate, and use various strategies to influence which interpretation takes precedence, thereby influencing how a phenomenon is understood.Methodology, Methods, Research Instruments or Sources UsedThe empirical data used in this article was collected in connection with a larger qualitative study conducted in two Swedish high schools. Ten teachers participated in the study, with teaching experience from between four and 22 years.The data was collected using semi-structured individual interviews where six open-ended questions guided the interviews. Follow-up questions were formulated in order to gain a deeper understanding of their answers. The interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim.The data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. After the interviews were read through several times, sections of the interviews pertaining to the aim of the article were selected. These sections were read again and meaning units, i.e. statements that uncovered something related to the aim, were extracted. The extracted meaning units were condensed and coded, resulting in 102 codes. These codes were then grouped into themes, in an iterative process involving, re-reading of the selected interview sections as well as the whole interviews. The groupings were based on the relationship and underlying meanings regarding differences and similarities.Conclusions, Expected Outcomes or FindingsThe teachers clearly recognize and describe their work with student health in the everyday teaching.Tentative results show one main theme and four themes describing the different internal roles of the teacher as health promotor. The main theme is Conscious use of relationship to facilitate health and learning. The themes are The role of a caring adult, The role of a coach, The role of a student centred pedagogical leader and The role of security creator. The purpose of all the internal roles mentioned above, is to create a professional relationship with the students which is health promoting.There are no colclusions yet, but it is clear that the teachers consider health promotion a teacher task, not in conflict with their professional role but rather integrated with it.References Burr, V. (2015). Social constructionism. Routledge. Graneheim, U. H., & Lundman, B. (2004). Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness. Nurse education today, 24(2), 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2003.10.001 Gustafsson, J.-E., Allodi Westling, M., Alin Åkerman, B., Eriksson, C., Eriksson, L., Fischbein, S., Granlund, M., Gustafsson, P., Ljungdahl, S., Ogden, T., & Persson, R. S. (2010). School, Learning and Mental Health: A systematic review. Hammerin, Z., Andersson, E., & Maivorsdotter, N. (2018). Exploring student participation in teaching: An aspect of student health in school. International journal of educational research, 92, 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2018.09.007 Partanen, P. (2019). Health for learning - learning for health. The Swedish National Agency of Education. Phillippo, K. L., & Kelly, M. S. (2014). On the Fault Line: A Qualitative Exploration of High School Teachers’ Involvement with Student Mental Health Issues. School Mental Health, 6(3), 184-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-013-9113-5 Pössel, P., Rudasill, K. M., Sawyer, M. G., Spence, S. H., & Bjerg, A. C. (2013). Associations between Teacher Emotional Support and Depressive Symptoms in Australian Adolescents: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study. Developmental Psychology, 49(11), 2135-2146. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031767
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- Augustsson, Dennis
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Collaborative Media in Educational Settings : Teaching as a Design Profession
- 2018
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Design Education. - : Common Ground Publishing. - 2325-128X .- 2325-1298. ; 13:2, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on a participatory design project conducted with K-12 schools in the US and Sweden to create an international collaboration on Marine Biology using video production as a tool for learning and representation. The aim of the project was to explore teachers' challenges and strategies due to digitalization and new curricular demands through a lens of sociocultural perspectives. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was used to understand and support participating teachers' development as well as the design process. Using the CHAT model as a design tool enabled teachers to grasp a complex learning environment and frame contradictions and tensions in the activity. Challenges in terms of curricular demands and media literacy could be identified and addressed as part of interacting activity systems, and the process enabled expansion of knowledge and ideas for both design and future work practice.
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- Hultén, Magnus, 1970-, et al.
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Animerad kemi : Elever i grundskolans tidiga år förklarar kemiska samband
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kemi har under stora delar av 1900-talet varit ett ämne som elever tidigast mötte i årskurs 5. Då behandlades ofta fenomen som smältning, stelning, kokning och avdunstning. Dessutom studerades egenskaper hos luft och vatten. Att elever innan de börjar högstadiet skulle resonera kring dessa fenomen i termer av vad som sker på submikronivå, med hjälp av antaganden om enkla partikelmodeller, har aldrig varit ett uttalat mål för undervisningen i kemi förrän introduktionen av Lgr 11. I den här studien har en grupp bestående av två lärare, en rektor och fyra forskare utformat och genomfört undervisning om egenskaper hos luft samt fenomenen smältning och stelning med elever i årskurs 3 och 4. Eleverna har inte bara beskrivit det som skett med egna ord, utan också lärt sig att beskriva det som sker på submikronivå i ord och bild. För att kunna göra detta har de, tillsammans med läraren, utvecklat enkla partikelmodeller. Projektet har kallats "Animerad kemi” och är ett forskningsprojekt finansierat av Skolforskningsinstitutet.
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- Jäder, Jonas, et al.
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Mathematical Reasoning and Beliefs
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education and the 36th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 6). - Vancouver : PME. - 9780864913661 ; , s. 114-114
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- We present a research project on students’ mathematical reasoning and how beliefs are indicated in their arguments. Preliminary results show that students express beliefs that task solving does not include reflection or much struggle. The results underpin earlier studies stressing expectations as a theme of belief.
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