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- Sjöström, Jesper, Professor, 1974-
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En praktisk-teoretisk vetenskap för lärare som bas för kraftfullt professionskunnande
- 2023
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Ingår i: Forskning om undervisning och lärande. - 2000-9674 .- 2001-6131. ; 11:1, s. 107-111
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Reflekterande kommentar till temanumret ”Kraftfull professionskunskap i ämnesundervisning”.”Lärarnas vetenskap” har getts olika namn såsom pedagogik, utbildningsvetenskap, didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete. Artikelförfattaren föredrar didaktik som namn.Didaktik, inkluderande ämnesdidaktik, kan ses som lärarnas centrala kunskapsområde (bl.a. Sjöström & Tyson, 2022). Kärnan i didaktik är didaktiska teorier och modeller. Didaktiska teorier för lärarprofessionen liksom didaktiska modeller kan ses som en brygga mellan teoretiska perspektiv å ena sidan och undervisningspraktik å andra sidan. Didaktiska modeller bidrar med teorigrundade lärarprofessionsstöd för informerade och reflekterade (ämnes)didaktiska val. De kan även ses som ”organisatör” och förmedlare av ”kraftfull professionskunskap”. Det är dock först vid användningen och i mötet med erfarenheter och praktik som professionskunskapen blir del av ett kraftfullt professionskunnande.Artikeln innehåller en niofältstabell/karta över ”lärarnas vetenskap”. Ämnesdidaktik, som finns i centrum av tabellen och som fokuserar på innehåll i relation till undervisning, får näring av andra områden av ”lärarnas vetenskap” såsom läroplansteori, lärandeteori, pedagogisk filosofi, utbildningssociologi och metodik.
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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. ; 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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- 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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- Sjöström, Jesper, Docent, 1974-, et al.
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The Bildung theory : from von Humboldt to Klafki and beyond
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Science Education in Theory and Practice. - Cham : Springer Nature. - 9783030436193 - 9783030436209 ; , s. 55-67
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bildung is a complex educational concept that has connections to both the Enlightenment and Romanticism. It has its roots in the late eighteenth century in Germany and has had a central place in educational philosophy and policy in central and northern Europe since then. In the history of education, one can identify at least five educational theories with reference to the basic ideas of Bildung: (a) Wilhelm von Humboldt’s classical Bildung, (b) liberal education, (c) Scandinavian folk-Bildung, (d) democratic education, and (e) critical-hermeneutic Bildung. In this chapter, we discuss the development of the concept of Bildung as a humanistic theory and its relevance for science education. We show how Bildung, when it comes to science education among other disciplines, emphasizes both personal subjectification and skills for socio-political action. In doing so, we relate contemporary interpretations of Bildung to issues of scientific literacy, education for sustainability, and transformative learning.
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- Fingalsson, Rebecka, et al.
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Constructing a ‘Nordic Nativeness’ in Swedish Sexuality Education
- 2022
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Ingår i: Education and involvement in precarious times. - Reykjavik, Iceland : School of Education, University of Iceland. - 9789935468222
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Nordic countries' progressive sexuality education (SE) has become synonymous with gender equality, sex-positive attitudes, and norm-critical awareness (Allen & Rasmussen, 2016; Bengtsson & Bolander, 2020; Zimmerman, 2015). In global comparison, Nordic SE is perceived to be a queer utopia regarding LGBTQ rights (Kjaran, 2017). Despite the prominence, feminist scholars argue it to cultivate forms of sexuality through notions of secularism and progressive pedagogy (Scott, 2018). According to Scott (2018) has Western sexual freedom represented the “fulfilling of natural inclinations of all women” (p. 157) in which sexual desire becomes a defining attribute of the human and a form of “natural law outside of history” (ibid). Svendsen (2017) argues the secular logic within Norwegian SE to be an ‘operating technology’, constructing a secular native and a religious Other. Similar constructions have been found by Honkasalo (2018) in Finnish textbooks, where culture is assigned to non-Finnish Others in contrast to liberal and progressive ""Finnish"" sexuality. When seemingly neutral and depoliticized notions of sexuality, the human body, health, and morality are addressed in SE, it becomes crucial to think about how these notions affect educational practices. In this paper we continue the path of critique and explore Swedish SE to understand how ‘Nordic nativeness’ is constructed through educational practices. Our data consists of observations, interviews, and textbooks in which we highlight how ‘the native’ and ‘the Other’ are represented. In our paper, we use a thematic analysis to flesh out how positions of ‘nativeness’ and ‘otherness’ are represented in SE. Our preliminary findings support previous research but also present a paradox in which attempts of widening perspectives simultaneously re-construct and re-position nativeness and otherness. Although the empirical example is from a Swedish context, the paper’s results are of interest to a wider audience because it contributes to an understanding of how sexuality education is actively positions different ethical, social, political, and cultural values.
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- Sjöström, Jesper, Professor, 1974-
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Didaktik – ett huvudområde för lärarutbildning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Skola & Samhälle. - 2001-6727. ; :2020-10-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Didaktik är ett för lärare centralt praktik-teoretiskt kunskapsområde. Området har en lång historia inom akademin, men har aldrig slagit igenom vare sig inom akademin eller i skolan. Det är dags att ändra på det – gör didaktik till huvudområde inom lärarutbildning, på samma sätt som vårdvetenskap är huvudområde inom sjuksköterskeutbildning.
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- Göransson, Kerstin, et al.
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Voices of special educators in Sweden : a total-population study
- 2015
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Ingår i: Educational research (Windsor. Print). - London : Routledge. - 0013-1881 .- 1469-5847. ; 57:3, s. 287-304
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: There are two occupational groups in Sweden that are expected to have significant impact on educational work related to children in need of special support. These two groups are special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) and special education teachers. In this paper, we use the collective name special educators' to refer to both groups. Special educators are expected to have specific knowledge regarding the identification of, and work with, school difficulties. However, there is noticeably little research concerning these occupational groups. This study was undertaken in order to further our knowledge about special educators' work.Purpose: The overall purpose of the present paper is to provide a first overview of special educators' work. The paper investigates these special educators' perceptions of their occupational role, of their preparedness for the role and of how their role is practised. The paper also illuminates questions about SENCOs' and special education teachers' knowledge and values as well as the grounds for the occupational groups to claim special expertise related to the identification of, and work with, school difficulties.Design and method: A questionnaire was sent out in 2012 to all SENCOs and special education teachers in Sweden who received their degree from 2001 onwards and in accordance with the Swedish examination acts of 2001, 2007 and 2008 (N=4252, 75% response rate).Results: According to the results, special educators state that they are well prepared to work with some tasks, such as counselling, leading development work and teaching children/pupils individually or in groups. Concurrently, there are tasks that the groups are educated for (e.g. school-development work), which they seldom practise in their daily work.Conclusions: Primarily using reasoning concerning jurisdictional control, we discuss SENCOs' and special education teachers' authority to claim special expertise in relation to certain kinds of work, clients and knowledge and thus, their chances of gaining full jurisdictional control in the field of special education.
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- Nordén, Birgitta, Dr. 1952-, et al.
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Redesign of an Outdoor Space in a Swedish Preschool : Opportunities and Constraints for Sustainability Education
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Early Childhood. - : Springer. - 0020-7187 .- 1878-4658. ; 52, s. 319-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract: Children’s early engagement in design of outdoor spaces can form the basis of laterattitudes and responsible action for sustainability. The present study is part of a participatoryaction research project in an urban multi-ethnic preschool in Sweden,involving children, parents, preschool staff and management with a focus on improvingthe preschool playground. The methodology involved children taking pictures ofthe outdoor space, informal participant observation by one researcher and conversationswith children and teachers. Analyses completed of selected fieldwork excerptsfocus on learning opportunities for children and adults, children’s participation,cooperation and leadership for sustainability. Deeper awareness and confidence, andpractical pedagogies for staff in preschools are required for effective sustainabilityeducation. A joint frame of reference on pedagogical practices and processes forreflection is needed within and across early childhood institutions. More continuoustraining of staff and preschool leadership would be of benefit. However, such commitmentis ultimately a matter of policy to invest in giving preschools the means todevelop and realise ambitions for environmental and sustainability education. Résumé: L’engagement précoce des enfants dans la conception des espaces extérieurs peutconstituer une base d’attitudes ultérieures et d’action responsable en faveur de ladurabilité. La présente étude fait partie d’un projet de recherche-action participa-* Birgitta Nordénbirgitta.norden@mau.se1 Department of Science, Mathematics and Society, Faculty of Education and Society, MalmöUniversity, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, 211 19 Malmö, Sweden2 Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, LundUniversity, Lund, Sweden3 Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University, Kalmar,SwedenB. Nordén, H. Avery1 3tive (RAP) dans un établissement préscolaire multiethnique urbain en Suède, oùles enfants, les parents, le personnel et la direction sont impliqués dans un objectifd’amélioration du terrain de jeux de leur maternelle. La méthodologie utilisée faitappel à des prises de photos de l’espace extérieur par les enfants, une observationinformelle des participants par une personne de la recherche et une discussion avecles enfants et les enseignants. Les analyses réalisées sur des extraits sélectionnés detravaux de terrain sont centrées sur: les occasions d’apprentissage pour les enfants etles adultes, la participation des enfants, et la coopération et le leadership des adultesenvers la durabilité à l’intérieur des institutions et entre celles-ci. Une éducation efficaceà la durabilité exige une sensibilisation et une confiance plus profondes, ainsique des pratiques pédagogiques chez le personnel des établissements préscolaires.Un cadre de référence commun sur les pratiques pédagogiques et les processus deréflexion est nécessaire à l’intérieur et entre les établissements de la petite enfance.Il serait bénéfique d’assurer davantage de formation professionnelle continue chez lepersonnel, y compris pour la direction d’établissements préscolaires. Toutefois, detels engagements relèvent en fin de compte des politiques d’investissement pour donneraux établissements préscolaires les moyens d’établir et de réaliser leurs ambitionsen matière d’éducation à l’environnement et au développement durable.
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- Plantin Ewe, Linda, et al.
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Teachers’ relational competence : perceptions of teachers and students with and without ADHD and ASD
- 2023
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Ingår i: Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. - : Taylor and Francis Ltd.. - 1363-2752 .- 1741-2692. ; 28:2-3, s. 198-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examined whether teachers’ professional development of their relational competence with students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) modifies teachers’ and students’ perceptions of their teacher-student relationships (TSR). Participants comprised teachers (n = 33) and students (n = 232) from two elementary schools: one intervention school (InS) and one control school (CoS). InS teachers reported significant TSR improvements, regardless of student group or gender (p =.03). Among InS students, significant results were driven by female neurodiverse (ND) students and neurotypical (NT) male students (p =.03). Nevertheless, positive effects were solely observed among ND female students, while NT male students, conversely, reported decreased TSR during follow-up tests. No significant effects were found at the CoS irrespective of teacher or student ratings. The findings suggest that enhancing teachers’ understanding of relational competence concerning ND students will not only improve their own perceptions of their TSR but also those of ND female students. Nonetheless, directing teachers’ focus towards one student group (ND students) risks diminishing teachers’ attention towards other student groups, potentially explaining the poorer follow-up results among NT boys. The finding warrants further investigation, as it indicates a challenge for teachers to establish sufficient relational engagement with all students.
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Matematikundervisningens sociopolitiska utmaningar
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Matematikundervisning av idag har en påverkan även utanför klassrummets ramar, inte minst genom matematikens relevans inom kultur, ekonomi, politik och i relation till makt. Sociopolitiska perspektiv i matematikdidaktisk forskning ger insikter om hur utbildningen i matematik är social och politisk. Forskning utifrån dessa perspektiv föreslår både kritiska ifrågasättanden och ännu-inte-tänkta möjligheter för innehåll, undervisning, politik och vidare forskning. Denna bok introducerar, för en större svensk publik, de forskningsinriktningar och strategier som sociopolitiska perspektiv har att erbjuda. I boken illustreras detta på flera sätt. Kapitlen beskriver aktuell forskning om matematikutbildningens sociopolitiska utmaningar i flera olika sammanhang, t.ex. klassrum, fritidshem, läroplaner, matematiklärarutbildning och till och med matematikutbildningsforskning. På detta sätt vidgas perspektiven till grupper av människor, institutioner och krafter, vilka utgör ett nätverk för matematikutbildningspraxis. Kapitlen presenterar annorlunda filosofiska och empiriska studier, baserade på teoretiska verktyg från filosofi, samhällsvetenskap och kulturstudier, kritiska studier av utbildning samt sociokulturellt-politiska studier av matematikutbildning. Metodologiska och analytiska strategier som text- och diskursanalys och fallstudier av praktik används. På detta sätt illustreras möjligheter att forska i matematikutbildning utifrån sociopolitiska perspektiv. Kapitlen använder diverse skrivstilar vilka bjuder in läsaren i forskningsvärlden. Därmed får läsaren möta olika sätt att tänka på matematikutbildningens roll i skapandet av det moderna svenska samhället.
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