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- Brante, Eva Wennås, 1961, et al.
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Exploring the Impact of Contrasting Cases in Text and Picture Processing
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Ingår i: Journal of Visual Literacy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1051-144X .- 2379-6529. ; 32:2, s. 15-38
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- Abstract Multimodal learning materials are frequently met in education assuming enhanced learning outcomes. This study examined whether contrasts in such materials are likely to support reading comprehension for all readers. Young adults (n=46) met either text-only or text+picture material. Participants (19 with low phonological awareness [PA] and 27 controls with high PA) thereafter answered open interview questions to check for reading comprehension. Learning materials were designed to focus readers on aspects critical to understanding the content by the use of contrasts; eye-tracking was used as method. Well-known pictures aided information recall, but contrasts described in the text were most effective for learning.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951, et al.
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Theorising teaching and learning: pre-service teachers' theoretical awareness of learning.
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Ingår i: European Journal of Teacher Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0261-9768 .- 1469-5928. ; 38:1, s. 102-118
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- We examine pre-service teachers’ theoretical learning during one five-week training module, and their educators’ learning about better lecture design to foster student learning. The study is iterative: interventions (one per group) were implemented sequentially in student groups A–C, the results of the previous intervention serving as the baseline for the design developed for the next. These learning study participants, 79 students from year three of a teacher training programme, studied the variation theory (VT) of learning. Three lesson cycles were completed, each comprising four steps: (1) a pre-test, (2) a 15-min intervention discussing VT, (3) a post-test and (4) a delayed post-test conducted eight weeks later. The results indicated learning differences between groups; qualitative analysis identified three categories of student answers, i.e. emergent, premature and unaware, regarding their theoretical understanding. Group C had more students with emergent knowledge (36%) than did groups A (20%) or B (17%) at post-testing.
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- Djärf, Agneta Ljung, 1961, et al.
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Patterns of variation: a way to support and challenge early childhood learning?
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Ingår i: Creative Education. - 2151-4755 .- 2151-4771. ; 4:7A1, s. 33-42
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- The purpose in this article is to elaborate on how the use of patterns of variation designed by variation theory can challenge and develop the early childhood education (ECE) practice. The analysis is based on six learning study (LS) projects conducted in Swedish ECE. A LS is a systematical, theoretical based de- velopment of teacher professionalism, often in close cooperation with researchers. The projects included 17 teachers, 140 children and 7 researchers. The video documented empirical material consists of 16 analysis meetings, 14 interventions and 407 pre-, post-, and delayed posttests. Each project is a concrete example of the use of patterns of variation to increase early childhood learning. In all cases a tendency of qualitative changes in children’s ways of discerning the object of learning could be noticed. The purpose is to search for how this can be understood from a variation theoretical perspective. The main focus is on changed ways of performing the interventions to search for how patterns of variation were used to create and capture the learning situations throughout the projects. One of our findings is that we have seen that it takes more than one intervention for the teachers to capture which aspects of the object of learning are critical in the targeted group, but as the iterative process allows them to try out the design more than once, they manage to find them. The second finding is that the teachers changed focus from taken for granted assumptions of each child to focusing on their own design to facilitate the child’s learning. Finally, the aspect supposed to be discerned has to vary against an invariant background to be discerned by the chil- dren, and to separate the principle from the representation is needed to be able to generalize their new knowledge
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- Holmqvist, Mona, 1961-
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Lesson study as a vehicle for improving SEND teachers’ teaching skills
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Ingår i: International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2046-8253 .- 2046-8261. ; 9:3, s. 193-202
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- Purpose – Collaborative professional development for inclusive teaching is a limited area of research,although there is an extensive need for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) teachers. Researchfindings of how teachers’ professional development can contribute to support the development of powerfullearning situations for all students are presented in this special issue. The aim is to contribute to the knowledgeof how the use of lesson study can develop teachers’ capabilities to offer high-quality education for studentswith SEND.Design/methodology/approach – The guest editor presents each of the papers and introduces key themesand concepts.Findings – The collection of papers is divided into two themes; the first has a focus on lesson study used byteacher educators during SEND in-service training. In this theme, the teachers are the students who arestudying different fields of SEND, supported by teacher educators. The second theme studies different forms oflesson studies carried out by researchers and teachers in the collaboration focused aspects of content that are ofimportance for students in SEND.Research limitations/implications – The papers focus on areas of education with a limited researchtradition, and as a result, the studies may be seen as starting points for further research. The results so far lackgeneralisability. Therefore, the researchers have to test the findings further under different conditions and withwider groups of teachers and students.Practical implications – The results of the papers can be used to develop both SEND teacher education, andcollaborative professional development for in-service SEND teachers. This issue will, therefore, be of interest toschool and system leaders.Originality/value – The papers contribute initial findings from an under-researched area and also combinelesson study with methods and designs not previously explored.
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