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- Holm, Ann-Sofie, 1959, et al.
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'How do we marry the two things together?': a Swedish education company expanding its business to India
- 2024
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Ingår i: Globalisation Societies and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1476-7724 .- 1476-7732. ; 22:2, s. 172 - 183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on a Swedish school company and its operations in India, examining how setting up and operating schools in another national place forge particular spatial imaginaries. It contributes to literature on the Global Education Industry by focusing on international moves of commercial non-Anglo-Saxon actors. Drawing on interviews and extensive fieldwork in India, we show how the 'marriage' between the global (represented by the Swedish company) and local (the 'Indian') are manifested in the spatial imaginary of the 'glocal school', encompassing hierarchical otherings rooted in discourses of both globalisation and colonialism.
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- Rehnstam-Holm, Ann-Sofi
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Inspelade föreläsningar – hjälper eller stjälper de?
- 2024
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Ingår i: Högskolepedagogisk debatt. - : Kristianstad University Press. - 2000-9216. ; :1, s. 126-128
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recension av artikeln ”A study exploring the impact of lecture capture availability and lecture capture usage on student attendance and attainment” av Edward, M. R. & Clinton M-E. 2019. Higher Education 77:403–421.
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- Alexiadou, Nafsika, 1968-, et al.
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Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education : a Swedish education company operating in India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Educational review (Birmingham). - : Routledge. - 0013-1911 .- 1465-3397.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Private international education is on the rise, but we still have limited knowledge on how different commercial actors operate in this field and how it affects local teachers and their work in the schools abroad. Swedish school companies have been active in exporting schooling in the international arena, including “Swedish” education models. In this article, we examine one company and their operations in India. We explore the interpretations of the company education model by teachers in the Indian schools, and how this affects their professional capacity. Mixed qualitative methods of interviews, on-site school visits and documentary reviews, were used to examine the possibilities for teachers to exercise professional agency within their working environment. Our findings show that teachers operate within a highly structured pedagogical environment characterised by a given curriculum, a centralised learning platform and training programme, and a set of dominant discourses around values and teaching practices. Teachers are expected to embrace a new professional identity in a process of discarding past experiences and adopting the new professional language given by the company's particular education model. In willingly embracing the company discourses and expectations, teachers’ agency tends to be constrained.
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- Rönnberg, Linda, 1977-, et al.
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Swedish free school companies going global : Spatial imaginaries and movable pedagogical ideas
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2002-0317. ; 8:1, s. 9-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Enabled by market-oriented policies implemented in the early 1990s, a nation-wide for-profit education industry has emerged and flourished in Sweden. As a more recent expansion strategy, Swedish school companies have begun exporting their school and early childhood education and care services internationally. In this article, three such companies and a selection of the foreign operations they have set up are studied to analyse how they describe the education services they are establishing in the new national settings. The findings show that the companies have developed and followed different edu-business models, using and transforming particular pedagogical ideas and connecting them to different spatial imaginaries. These include the Swedish/Scandinavian as both places and idealized spaces, infused with borderless global transformative spatial imaginaries on the creation of autonomous learners and futuristic education visions for global futures. Educational profiles and concepts from the Swedish context are both adjusted and marketed to the foreign settings, and entail stories on spaces and mobilities, encompassing pedagogy, teachers and students.
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- Temesgen, Adugna, et al.
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Attitude of Instructors in Integrating Information Communication Technologies into Classroom Teaching: The Case of Two Universities of Technology in Ethiopia
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Ethiopian Journal of Education. ; XLII:1, s. 47-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Thisstudy was aimed primarily at ascertaining whether there is a difference in instructors’attitudestowards the use of ICT in classroom teaching contexts of the two technological universitiesin Ethiopia. Specifically, Addis Ababa Science andTechnologyUniversity (AASTU)and Adama Science and TechnologyUniversity (ASTU) instructors were comparedto see if ICT use perceived usefulness varies with theirattitudinal patterns. Attempts were evident to see if changes might be noticeableacrosstheir demographic attributesas well. A sequential explanatory mixed-method design was adopted to gain a fuller understanding of the issue. Because ofthis, data were collected using questionnaires administered to 136 randomly selected instructors. Interviews were held with 14 participantsconsisting of department heads,deansand vice presidentsof both universitiesto collect qualitative data. Results showed that both AASTU and ASTU group members generally held a strong positive belief (with few exceptions) that integrating ICTs can significantly bring unparalleled importance to classroom teaching.Yet, apart from the reported significantly different effects between the five age groups in the ASTU context, F(4, 71) = 2.60, p= .04, eta η2 = .42, there appeared to be no significant difference between participants’ attitude towards ICT by their gender, age, academic rank, and working experience. The regression resultsalso depicted that demographic variables could not significantly predict an attitudevariable; neitherdid attitude contribute to a significant variation in participants’ pedagogical ICT competences(TPK). A conclusion is that holding most of the positive attitude is a promising result and a solid foundation that is already in place. However, there existed some inconsistent findings in the study that future research needstoclear the disparities.
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- Carlson, Marie, 1950, et al.
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Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice.
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book presents ideas on education, gender and intersectionality through a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological borders. Exploring the diversity of educational settings ranging from early childhood to adult education, it brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss, deconstruct and problematize gender and education in relation to several themes in a comparative, intersectional, local, national, regional and international perspective. Each chapter approaches the topic in an intersectional and/or transnational manner and creates powerful gendered educational knowledge. Questions addressed in the book include: What are the challenges or barriers to gender-equal education? How can we understand the gaps between formal policies and educational practices? The chapters in the book illustrate how gender and education are relevant and needed concepts within the field of transdisciplinary research. The authors hail from a range of countries, such as Croatia, Indonesia, Turkey, UK, as well as the Nordic region, and they critically examine gender and education at all levels and in diverse sectors, and with varied lenses, such as neoliberalism in education, and the inclusion of newcomers and refugees.
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- Henriksen, Rie, et al.
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Effect of contact incubation on stress, behavior and body composition in the precocial Red jungle fowl
- 2021
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Ingår i: Hormones and Behavior. - : Academic Press. - 0018-506X .- 1095-6867. ; 128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Birds use contact incubation to warm their eggs above ambient temperature required for embryonic development. In contrast, birds in the industry as well as many birds in breeding programs and scientific studies are incubated in conventional incubators that warm eggs via circulating warm air. This means that contact incubated eggs have different thermal properties than eggs incubated in a conventional incubator. In light of previous studies showing that small differences in incubation temperature can affect chicks post-hatching phenotype, we investigated the consequences of incubating Red jungle fowl eggs at the same temperature (37 degrees C) either via contact incubation or warm air incubation. We found that contact incubated chicks had a more robust body composition, were more explorative and had a higher temperature preference early in life, as well as a sex dependent difference in plasma Corticosterone levels pre-hatch (measured in down-feathers) and post-hatch (measured in plasma) compared to chicks incubated in a conventional warm air incubator. While previous studies have demonstrated that embryonic development and post-hatch phenotype is sensitive to small variations in temperature, our study demonstrates for the first time that the way heat is distributed to the egg has a similar magnitude of effect on post-hatch phenotype and highlights the sensitivity of the incubation period in shaping birds post-hatch phenotype.
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- Holm, Ann-Sofie, 1959, et al.
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Gendered discourses on performances, work and talent in Swedish secondary school
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender and education in politics, policy and practice. - Schweiz : Springer Nature. - 9783030809010 ; , s. 165-179
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is well established that girls generally achieve better than boys in Swedish compulsory education. A previously offered explanation is that studying is more acceptable and compatible with dominant femininities than masculinities. Taking this as a starting point, we draw on observations and interviews from three grade 9 classes to explore discourses of gender and achievement among the students and teachers within various teaching contexts. This chapter identifies and discusses three themes that appear to be central to gendered positions in studying. The first theme places studying within the context of other valued social activities and relationships, with (male) effortless achievement being integral to living life to the full. The second theme is the celebration of talent, which – in line with previous research – appears to be particularly important to boys but is shown here to be central to the (de)valuation of girls’ achievements as well. The third theme is future expectations and students’ views of the relative importance of school achievement and grades for their labour market prospects and life chances.
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- Högström, Per, 1972-, et al.
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Digitalisering av kemiundervisning på gymnasieskolan med hjälp av Augmented Reality
- 2021
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Ingår i: Framtidens Digitala Lärande i Skolan (FDLIS) – Ett unikt samverkansprojekt. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 9789151982403 - 9789151982410 ; , s. 61-73
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- För många elever kan såväl ämnets innehåll som naturvetenskapligt språk i kemi upplevas abstrakt. En särskild utmaning ligger i beskrivningar av det tredimensionella perspektivet (3D). Detta är samtidigt en nyckel för att förstå hur molekyler är uppbyggda och varför kemiska reaktioner sker. I detta projekt beskriver vi hur digitala verktyg kan öppna upp för nya möjligheter att både undervisa och lära kemi. Hur kombinationen av tillgänglighet och flexibilitet i lärares undervisningsupplägg, samt utveckling av elevers förståelse skapas då Augmented Reality (AR) involveras i konkreta undervisningssituationer är däremot inte väl känt.
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- Priskorn, Lærke, et al.
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RUBIC (ReproUnion Biobank and Infertility Cohort) : A binational clinical foundation to study risk factors, life course, and treatment of infertility and infertility-related morbidity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Andrology. - : Wiley. - 2047-2919 .- 2047-2927. ; 9:6, s. 1828-1842
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Infertility affects 15%–25% of all couples during their reproductive life span. It is a significant societal and public health problem with potential psychological, social, and economic consequences. Furthermore, infertility has been linked to adverse long-term health outcomes. Despite the advanced diagnostic and therapeutic techniques available, approximately 30% of infertile couples do not obtain a live birth after fertility treatment. For these couples, there are no further options to increase their chances of a successful pregnancy and live birth. Objectives: Three overall questions will be studied: (1) What are the risk factors and natural life courses of infertility, early embryonic loss, and adverse pregnancy outcomes? (2) Can we develop new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for fecundity and treatment success? And (3) what are the health characteristics of women and men in infertile couples at the time of fertility treatment and during long-term follow-up?. Material and Methods: ReproUnion Biobank and Infertility Cohort (RUBIC) is established as an add-on to the routine fertility management at Copenhagen University Hospital Departments in the Capital Region of Denmark and Reproductive Medicine Centre at Skåne University Hospital in Sweden. The aim is to include a total of 5000 couples equally distributed between Denmark and Sweden. The first patients were enrolled in June 2020. All eligible infertile couples are prospectively asked to participate in the project. Participants complete an extensive questionnaire and undergo a physical examination and collection of biospecimens (blood, urine, hair, saliva, rectal swabs, feces, semen, endometrial biopsies, and vaginal swabs). After the cohort is established, the couples will be linked to the Danish and Swedish national registers to obtain information on parental, perinatal, childhood, and adult life histories, including disease and medication history. This will enable us to understand the causes of infertility and identify novel therapeutic options for this important societal problem.
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