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Lärarens ledarskap - professionell pedagogisk praktik
- 2022
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Att läraren är en ledare, det är nog alla överens om. Men vad handlar ledarskapet egentligen om? Den här boken tar sig an det komplexa ledarskapet och dess praktik genom att belysa lärarens ledarskap ur en rad olika aspekter. Lärarens ledarskap är en förutsättning för att undervisningen ska leda till lärande. I undervisningssituationen ska läraren på samma gång balansera undervisning, relationer och ordningsfrågor. Detta förutsätter att den enskilde läraren har didaktisk och relationell kompetens samt kompetens att leda grupper. Samtidigt behöver läraren kunna avläsa och förstå de system som skolan omfattar, och vilka faktorer utanför lärarens dagliga verksamhet som kommer att påverka möjligheterna för läraren att leda och att utveckla sitt ledarskap. I den här boken får läraren redskap för att utveckla ett gott ledarskap genom praktiknära exempel, kopplade till forskning inom varje område. I bokens olika delar speglas det komplexa samspelet mellan elever, lärare och den kontext de befinner sig i samt hur läraren kan navigera sitt ledarskap för att åstadkomma ett hållbart lärande hos eleverna. I ett antal innehållsrika forskningsbaserade kapitel med praktiknära resonemang belyser bokens författare flera olika aspekter av lärarens pedagogiska ledarskap. Här kan läsaren ta del av kapitel som bland annat behandlar ledarskapsteorier, relationellt klassrumsledarskap, konflikthantering, pedagogiskt ledarskap online och lärares ledarskap i en mångkulturell skola.
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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
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Nutrition, health and climate : What have we learned so far?
- 2019
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In: Conference on Food Science and Nutrition: “Forum for food science and nutrition for a better tomorrow”, 25–26 February 2019, Rome, Italy.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Food and meals are central elements in our lives: a source of pleasure, a social activity and a bearer of culture. Our eating habits are also very important to health, which implies that the organization and content of meals is a prerequisite for well-being and learning. Schools, in particular, have unique opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles, help develop good eating habits and raise environmental and climate awareness among children and youths by embedding food in a wider context. Unsurprisingly, there is also an increasing interest in school meals and food-related education among researchers, many of whom agree that the quality of school meals can be seen as one of the most accurate indicators of the cities’ sustainability potential. Systematic quality work, however, requires shared targets and ambitions, regular quality checks and discussions on development and improvement. In that vein, the City of Gothenburg has launched the project Urban Rural Gothenburg, which assembles, develops, tests and implements new solutions for the city’s public kitchens. This involves climate-smart and environmentally sound perspectives and programs regarding meal planning, food procurement, food preparation and food-related teaching and learning. One important approach deals with the normalization of increased vegetarian consumption and greater awareness of food’s origins and travel from farm to table. Another approach deals with conscious choices of raw materials that are beneficial for both the environment and health. A third notable approach focuses on new ways of handling food waste to reduce climate impact. In line with the third Sustainable Development Goal, this presentation captures and reaffirms the fundamental assumptions and methods involved in Gothenburg’s work with food sustainability in public kitchens, with an emphasis on health and climate as cross-cutting issues that matter to us all.
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- Viktorelius, Martin, et al.
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Energy efficiency at sea : An activity theoretical perspective on operational energy efficiency in maritime transport
- 2019
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In: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 52, s. 1-9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The mitigation of emission from shipping will require improvements in energy efficiency. In order to achieve this, sociotechnical changes are required, affecting all stakeholders within the shipping sector. Ship crews and their everyday work practices will play an especially important role in the transformation of the sector. It is therefore crucial to understand how new energy efficient technologies and practices are being introduced and enacted onboard ships. The case study reported in this paper investigates an attempt to improve the operational energy efficiency in a shipping company that was made by installing an energy monitoring system and introducing an energy saving policy onboard the ships in the fleet. The analytical framework in this paper is inspired by cultural-historical activity theory which is suggested as a novel and useful practice-based approach in energy studies. It is used in analyzing the contradictions and tensions in the work practices onboard the ships that preceded and followed the implementation of the energy monitoring system and energy saving policy. The empirical results revealed how the initial demand for operational energy efficiency and the subsequent introduction of the new monitoring system and policy gave rise to tensions in the existing activity systems onboard which crew members then tried, but did not always manage, to reconcile. It is concluded that a better understanding of the sociotechnical change processes, associated with organizational energy conservation and energy management, can be achieved if the situated paradoxes of practitioners’ everyday practices are examined.
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- Brunnberg, Elinor, 1948-, et al.
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Self-rated mental health, school adjustment, and substance use in hard-of-hearing adolescents
- 2008
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In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1081-4159 .- 1465-7325. ; 13:3, s. 324-335
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This survey, "Life and Health—Young People 2005," included all 15/16-year-old adolescents in mainstream schools in the county of Örebro, Sweden. Just students with a slight/mild or moderate hearing loss were included. There were 56 (1.9%) "hard-of-hearing (HH) students with multiple disabilities," 93 (3.1%) students who were "just HH," 282 (9.7%) students with some "other disability than HH," and 2,488 (85.2%) students with "no disability." "HH with multiple disabilities" reported considerably higher scores for mental symptoms, substance use, and school problems than the "no disability" group. Those with "just HH" and those with "other disability than HH" had more mental symptoms and school problems than the "no disability" group but no significant differences in substance use. In conclusion, the combination of a hearing loss and some other disability strongly increases the risk for mental symptoms, school problems, and substance use. This group, thus, is an important target for preventive measures.
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- Eriksson, Martin, 1970, et al.
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The SDG Impact Assessment Tool – a free online tool for self-assessments of impacts on Agenda 2030
- 2019
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In: Proceedings from International Conference on Sustaianable Development.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper presents the SDG Impact Assessment Tool, an online resource for self- assessments of impacts on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, it presents a brief example of an SDG Impact Assessment and some existing and potential applications of the tool. The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and the SDGs are a resolution for attaining sustainable development throughout the world, but also represent a framework towards which the sustainability of almost any activity can be evaluated. Although quantitative methods are indeed pivotal for achieving sustainable development, they are often limited to specific scientific fields and cannot encompass all aspects of all SDGs, including normative societal values. A qualitative and reflective approach, however, is not reserved for scientists in specific fields but can be used by anyone. Using such an approach in the tool presented here represent a good starting point for companies or other organizations that want to learn about the SDGs and minimize their negative impacts. The tool employs a self-assessment of impacts on each of the 17 SDGs, in terms of Direct positive, Indirect positive, No impact, Indirect negative, Direct negative or More knowledge needed, and outputs a graphical visualization of the results. The tool also encourages users to formulate a strategy on how to mitigate negative impacts, increase positive impacts and fill potential knowledge gaps, which can be a starting point for a more comprehensive sustainability strategy for companies or other organizations.
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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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In: The International Journal of Design Education. - : Common Ground Publishing. - 2325-128X .- 2325-1298. ; 13:2, s. 1-19
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- 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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- Blennow, Katarina, et al.
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Students’ narrative action in social science teaching in Swedish upper secondary school : Limitations and openings
- 2023
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In: Acta Didactica Norden. - Oslo. - 2535-8219. ; 17:2, s. 1-24
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, we undertake a narrative analysis of social science teaching in Swedish upper secondary school as a case study. In doing so, we want to stress the need to pay attention to the contextual and situated limits and openings of the conceivable repertoire of legitimate stories of social science in the Swedish context and its related research. The students’ attempts at sense making and action in encounters with the subject matter content, approached in terms of emplotments, render visible to what extent and in what ways the students insert cultural narratives into the subject matter teaching repertoire through their own subject storytelling. Furthermore, it indicates the limits and openings of social science teaching as predetermined “truth telling”, that is, as already-established socio-political knowledge repertoires.In focusing on students’ unique, situated and collective interweaving of their “own” experiences with established cultural and political knowledge repertoires, we wish to make a case for the potential to renew society and students’ ways of acting and being in this storytelling. If meagre attention is provided to this interweaving, we argue that there is a danger that the renewal of society and of social science education will get lost, or at least disturbed, in an undesirable way.
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- Hagvall Svensson, Oskar, 1990, et al.
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Authenticity work in higher education learning environments: a double-edged sword?
- 2022
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In: Higher Education. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0018-1560 .- 1573-174X. ; 84, s. 67-84
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- Educational authenticity occupies a strong position in higher education research and reform, building on the assumption that correspondence between higher education learning environments and professional settings is a driver of student engagement and transfer of knowledge beyond academia. In this paper, we draw attention to an overlooked aspect of authenticity, namely the rhetorical work teachers engage in to establish their learning environments as authentic and pedagogically appropriate. We use the term “authenticity work” to denote such rhetorical work. Drawing on ethnography and critical discourse analysis, we describe how two teachers engaged in authenticity work through renegotiating professional and educational discourse in their project-based engineering course. This ideological project was facilitated by three discursive strategies: (1) deficitization of students and academia, (2) naturalization of industry practices, and (3) polarization of the state of affairs in academia and in industry. Our findings suggest that authenticity work is a double-edged sword: While authenticity work may serve to bolster the legitimacy that is ascribed to learning environments, it may also close down opportunities for students to develop critical thinking about their profession and their education. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for teaching and propose a nascent research agenda for authenticity work in higher education learning environments.
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- Lindstrand, Fredrik
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Grasping action in multimodal transformative processes
- 2018
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In: 9ICOM. - Odense, Danmark : Syddansk Universitet. ; , s. 23-23
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Grasping action in multimodal transformative processes Fredrik Lindstrand, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm A multimodal and social semiotic (Hodge & Kress, 1988) approach to learning, focusing on semiosis and semiotic change, provides an important contrast to the fields of research that currently inform political discourse on education and learning. By conceptualising learning as socially situated processes of sign-making and approaching learners as meaning-makers engaged in semiotic work (Kress, 2003; 2009), social semiotics affords valuable possibilities to grasp the social and epistemological complexities of learning and education (Insulander & Lindstrand, 2013; Insulander, Kjällander et al., 2017). In a world of instability and change, this seems as crucial as ever (cf. Kress, 2008).However, approaching learning in ways that utilise the potentials of social semiotic theory calls for a research design that opens not only for analyses of signs and resources, but also for grasping sign-making as a process of decision making in situ over time (cf. van Leeuwen, 2005; Lindstrand, 2010). Differently put, it is a matter of balancing the two sides of social semiotics: the functional/social and the systemic parts of semiosis (Machin, 2016).Building on examples from two research projects, the paper suggests that ethnographical approaches may offer ways to orchestrate this in practice (see also Dicks, Soyinka & Caffrey, 2006; Dicks, Flewitt et al., 2011). One of the projects, Making difference (Lindstrand, 2006; 2009) used ethnographic approaches to show how understandings of aspects related to ideational, interpersonal and textual features of communication with moving images were construed gradually in the transition between different phases, modes and media in collaborative filmmaking processes. The other project, The Mission (Lindstrand, 2016), used ethnographic approaches to track how various elements from a convergent learning process about WW2 were used as resources in the collaborative production of a written fictive story. ReferencesDicks, B., Soyinka, B. & Coffey, A. (2006) Multimodal Ethnography. Qualitative Research 6(1), 77-96.Dicks, B., Flewitt, R., Lancaster, L. & Pahl, K. (2011) Multimodality and ethnography: working at the intersection. Qualitative Research 11(3), 227-237.Hodge, R. & Kress, G. (1988) Social semiotics. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.Insulander, E., Kjällander, S., Lindstrand, F. & Åkerfeldt, A. (eds.)(2017) Didaktik i omvandlingens tid. Text, representation, design. [Didactics in times of transformation. Text, representation, design]. Stockholm: Liber.Insulander, E. & Lindstrand, F. (2013) “Towards a social and ethical view of semiosis. Examples from the museum”. In Böck, M. & Pachler, N. (red.) Multimodality and Social Semiosis: Communication, Meaning-making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress. New York: Routledge. 225-236.Kress G. (2003) Literacy in the New Media Age. London: Routledge.Kress, G. (2008) Meaning and learning in a world of instability and multiplicity. Studies in Philosophy and Education 27(4), 253-266.Kress, G. (2009) Multimodality. A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. London: Routledge.Lindstrand, F. (2006) Att göra skillnad. Representation, identitet och lärande i ungdomars arbete och berättande med film [Making difference. Representation, identity and learning in teenagers' work and communication with film]. Diss. Stockholm University. Stockholm: HLS Förlag.Lindstrand, F. (2009) "Lärprocesser i den rörliga bildens gränsland" [Learning processes in the marches of filmmaking], in Lindstrand, F. & Selander, S. (eds.). Estetiska Lärprocesser – upplevelser, praktiker och kunskapsformer [Aesthetic Learning Processes - Experiences, Practices and Forms of Knowledge]. Lund: Studentlitteratur. 153-174.Lindstrand, F. (2010) Interview with Theo van Leeuwen. Designs for Learning 3:1-2, 84-90.Lindstrand, F. (2016) Med berättelsen och berättandet som mål och medel i en gränsöverskridande lärprocess kring andra världskriget. [Story and storytelling as target and means in a cross-boundry learning process about WW2]. Project report. Sandviken: Litteraturhuset Trampolin.Machin, D. (2016) The need for a social and affordance-driven multimodal critical discourse studies. Discourse & Society 27:3, 322-334.van Leeuwen, T. (2005) Introducing Social Semiotics. London: Routledge.
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- Johansson, Madelaine, et al.
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Individual Reflection Paper : Supporting Student's Learning in the Critical Phase of Self-directed Learning in PBL
- 2019
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In: Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education. - : Aalborg Universitetsforlag. - 2246-0918. ; 7:1, s. 97-106
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Supporting and assessment of students’ preparation and learning process in problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials has long been a challenge. We present a modified PBL model focussing on the specific critical phase in the PBL process, the self-directed learning phase in between tutorial meetings. The modified seven step PBL model including an Individual reflection paper (IRP) is presented as well as students’ perspectives on the implementation of IRP and information literacy, knowledge gathering, and PBL tutorial work. The assessment of PBL work is complex, and the ways in which IRPs support the tutor’s role as an examiner is beyond the scope of the current study. However, it seems that the students experienced assessment of the IRPs as part of their as a positive driving force in their learning process.
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