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- Augustsson, Dennis, et al.
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Att kunskapa i mellanrum och genom överlappningar
- 2014
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vetenskap/konstnärsskap, lärande/lek, lärare/studenter är olika sidor av en dikotom verklighetsuppfattning bland många i den traditionella akademiska kulturen. Syftet med vår workshop är att reflektera över och utmana denna dikotomi genom att skapa ett kunskapens mellanrum där de olika sidorna av dikotomin överlappas. Vi workshopsledare kommer från olika ämnen med varierande bakgrunder och har olika akademiska positioner, men har gemensamt att vi har jobbat länge på högskolevärlden, arbetar både traditionellt akademiskt och konstnärligt och sedan 2,5 år arbetat med en forskningscirkel där vi tillsammans undersökt det gränsöverskridande mötet mellan teori och gestaltning (vetenskap och konstnärsskap). I varsitt mindre forskningsprojekt har vi undersökt hur man kan kunskapa genom reflekterande görande. Dessa forskningsprojekt har också blivit pedagogiska utvecklingsprojekt, då resultaten omsatts i kursutveckling. Teoretiskt ser vi den akademiska kulturen som en del av ett socialt konstruerat rum, både bildligt och bokstavligt, där även kunskapande är en socialt konstruerad aktivitet lärande i och med kroppen. Begreppen hexis, konstruerad kropp och performativitet (Bourdieu; Butler) har därför varit centrala begrepp för oss. Vårt övergripande pedagogiska perspektiv handlar om det reflekterande görandet (Dewey; Schön). Vi arbetar pedagogiskt med multimodalitet (Selander & Kress), sinnligt kunskapande (Polyani; Pink) och hämtar begreppen divicing (Kjølner, Oddey) och intra-aktiv pedagogik (Taguchi) från förskolepedagogik. Vi har även låtit oss inspireras av begreppet parallellek. Begreppet estetiska lärprocesser (Lindstrand & Selander) binder samman vår konstnärlig vetenskapliga och pedagogiska verksamhet. Vårt arbetssätt handlar emellertid framför allt om att omsätta teoretiska begrepp i praktiken. Och det vill vi göra genom workshopen. Vi riktar oss mot kollegor som är intresserade av att utmana traditionella akademiska kulturer och vill reflektera över det gränsöverskridande arbetet mellan teori och praktik. Vårt planerade upplägg är att tillsammans med workshopdeltagare skapa ett kunskapens mellanrum genom kollektiva överlappande vetenskapliga och gestaltande processer. Det tänkta upplägget är:1. En introduktion till projektet Kunskapens mellanrum.2. Övningen introduceras. Det handlar om att med olika enkla material gestalta kunskap genom devicingmetoden och parallellekmetoden.3. Vi genomför övningen genom att använda oss av varandra och rummet. Vetenskaplig kunskap, lärarroll, studentroll, akademisk kultur och akademiska maktrelationer är begrepp som leks med och problematiseras.4. Deltagarna arbetar i en växelverkan med leken, görandet och dokumentation. Vi använder oss av det framtagna gestaltade materialet och gör en analys av och reflektion över det som är dokumenterad kunskap.5. Ett presentations- och utställningsrum skapas, som förhoppningsvis kan vara kvar över konferensen, så att deltagarna och andra kan återkomma för reflektioner.
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- Lennqvist-Lindén, Ann-Sofie
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Att lägga politiken tillrätta : kommunala chefers professionalisering
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The desire for many people today is to be professional, and many occupations seek professional status. The idea of a profession has a higher status than a mere occupation; professionals have lot of knowledge and power to decide about their own work and they can also voice opinions about others. Occupations are driven towards attaining professional status. This process is not driven by single individuals aiming to exercise power in relation to other individuals. It is a collective, national process by an occupation. The overall aim of this dissertation is to examine, describe and analyze the process of professionalization of local public managers. There are four researchtopics: a) What are the characteristics of a professional group, and do these apply to local public managers? b) How is municipal organization portrayed with regard to the roles of politicians and administrators? c) How do politicians,managers, and public servants view themselves and each other in a normative and descriptive way? d) In what ways are managers trying to increase their influence to reach a position from which it is possible to choose to follow, or notfollow, a political decision? The methods used in this research are several; a deep case study in which surveys, observations, document studies and interviews are conducted. As theoretical framework theories of power, professionalization and discourse are used to analyze the empirical material from the case study.The results show top managers’ ongoing quest for professional status. They exclude other groups in order to handle their work without interference from others – discretion, the driving force behind professionalization. Usurpation is a strategy to get into the area of the politicians. Politicians are talked of as children in need for raise and a municipality is perceived as a private business enterprise. In this discourse values such as effectiveness, customer satisfaction, competition and value-for-money are important. The municipality is heavily inspired by thei deas of New Public Management. This development is quite problematic withregard to democracy. The democratic values such as public ethics, political democracyand the rule of law – the public ethos - are not spoken of. My hope is that this dissertation can prompt managers to reflect, since I have tried to see their work from a different perspective than what they most probably use.
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- Bergström, Tomas, et al.
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Through a glass darkly: Leadership complexity in Swedish local government
- 2008
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In: Local Government Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0300-3930 .- 1743-9388. ; 34:2, s. 203-220
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- New management ideas aim to change the roles of local government politicians and administrators. The new ideas are poorly adjusted to the traditional role of councillors that was built on detailed knowledge and active participation in administrative practice. Leadership has now become even more full of contradictions; many demands are hard to reconcile. But, if any managers are good at handling complexity, it should be those in the local government sector. This article discusses, based on experiences from Sweden, how the complex interface between politics and administration is, or could be, handled by a dialogue between central actors.
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- Loxbo, Karl, 1975-
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Bakom socialdemokraternas beslut. : - från 1950-talets ATP-strid till 1990-talets pensionsuppgörelse
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In 1959, the Swedish Social Democratic Party prevailed over the bourgeois parties in the great battle for supplementary pensions (ATP). In the 1990’s, however, the party leadership decided to abolish the ATP in close cooperation with the bourgeois parties. The thesis poses the following question: “What prospects did the Social Democratic leadership have to gain support for the ATP-reform in the 1950’s, and then for the quite dissimilar pension reform in the 1990’s, and how can differences between these prospects be explained?” In order to explain the kind of party change pointed out in the problem statement, this thesis proposes a theoretical perspective that focuses on the tension between different roles played by the party leadership on different arenas. The hypothesis, that is tested in the thesis, is that early decisions create different constrains for future decisions on different arenas. The thesis has two main conclusions. The first conclusion is that the decision to implement the generous ATP-system in the 1950’s in practice laid the ground for the subsequent abolishment of that same system in the 1990’s. The second conclusion is that the pragmatism, always displayed on the parliamentary arena, has not been visible on the electoral arena or on the party arena. The party leadership plays different roles on different arenas, and over time these different roles have become hard, if not impossible, to combine. The result of this was that decisions on the parliamentary arena were decoupled from messages and rhetoric about these decisions on the party arena, and on the electoral arena. The pension reform in the 1990’s was quite a different decision compared to the popular introduction of the ATP-system. Both of these decisions, however, were attempts by the party leadership to maximize support on each arena. The possibilities for succeeding in this venture were greatly reduced in the 1990’s. Instead of one party striving for one goal, Swedish Social Democracy in the 1990’s appeared as two or three parties, with different objectives and goals.
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