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- Aili, Carola, et al.
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Qualifying teacher work : everyday work as basis for the autonomy of the teaching profession
- 2007
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Ingår i: Teachers and Teaching. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1354-0602 .- 1470-1278. ; 13:3, s. 287-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teachers' work in tuition-free (non-classroom) time was investigated to see to what degree teachers do work that could be considered as qualifying for the status of professional autonomy. The question arises in Sweden and elsewhere as both teachers and the state actively, and in tandem, strive to professionalise the work of the teacher. Abbott's work on the division of expert labour is taken as a point of departure. Based on data collected by an organisation sampling method, the article describes what teachers do in their tuition-free time. The study data consist of 1166 reports from 59 Swedish teachers' daily work situations in school years 1-12. Qualifying teacher work is related to teachers' ways of handling divergent cases, discretionary work and problem solving. Situations where teachers can use specific professional knowledge are described. One of the main findings is that in 22.2% of the situations studied, such professional knowledge can be applied. This corresponds to at least 7.5 hours of the Swedish teachers' weekly working hours; with the reservation that 10 hours of teachers' weekly 45 hours working time is not examined. This time corresponds roughly with the non-regulated working time, that is, time when the teachers do not have to be at school.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951
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Allmän didaktik och ämnesdidaktik - en inledande diskussion kring gränser och anspråk
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nordisk tidskrift för Allmän Didaktik. - 2002-1534. ; 2:1, s. 52-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish teacher education policies, in line with the evidence discourse, emphasize subject knowledge, and subject didactics have a vast influence in school and teacher education. But what is the difference between general and subject didactics? In subject didactic text books it is suggested that didactic subject knowledge is more or less sufficient for thinking and planning teaching, and/or that everything concerning school is subject didactics. The aim of the article is to problematize the concept of subject didactics and its claims in relation to planning and teaching. Instead it is suggested that subject matter planning and teaching within school education can be understood as general didactics. This will be presented in two ways. First, one theory strongly involving thinking about subject matter for the planning of teaching, is used to illustrate that this actually is general didactic theories of how content can be thought about, treated and handled in the planning of teaching. It is Klafkis theory of didactic analysis. Secondly, scientific articles in mathematics, history and biology, claimed to be representative for subject didactics will be used to demonstrate that what is stressed in them as subject didactics, in fact seem to be traditional general didactic positions. If this reasoning has credibility it should be reason to investigate more profoundly the intersection between general and subject didactics.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951-
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Förbättrad interaktion mellan studerande och lärare genom ökad professionalism?
- 2002
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Ingår i: Utbildning och Demokrati. - 1102-6472 .- 2001-7316. ; 11:3, s. 91-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, there has been a lively debate on the state of schools. Two aspects have so far been discussed separately: the problematic status of the teaching profession, and interaction problems between teachers and students. These aspects have been considered in an inquiry involving 110 upper secondary school students. The analysis revealed severe criticism of teachers' actions and attitudes towards their students. Using this study as a basis, several theories are put forward - starting point for understanding the causes of the problems that have provoked students' criticism. These theories cover the following factors: interaction, the generation gap, relations between Human Service Organization Workers and their clients, and dissonance in the interaction between teachers and students. One particular implication is that teachers' inadequate professionalism may limit their possibilities to counteract the tendencies noted in the theoretical approaches mentioned above.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951, et al.
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Theorising teaching and learning: pre-service teachers' theoretical awareness of learning.
- 2015
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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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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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- Brante, Göran, 1951, et al.
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To double a recipe : interdisciplinary teaching and learning of mathematical content knowledge in a home economics setting
- 2014
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - : Routledge. - 2000-4508. ; 5:2, s. 301-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines if interdisciplinary teaching can be said to facilitate the learning and use of fractions by Swedish 12-year-old pupils. Home and Consumer Studies is well suited to interdisciplinary teaching, and young people can therefore find it interesting to study maths since the setting is relevant to them. Building on variation theory and a learning study, we examined pupils' (n18) ability to double fractions greater than ½ when using a recipe. The general results show that what is to be learned benefits if it is presented in different ways, that teachers should not take pupils' knowledge for granted, and mathematically that it is not necessary to divide something to be able to double it. We argue that the study shows that genuine problems based on pupils' interest and life world can enhance motivation and, in turn, learning.
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- Brunosson, Albina, 1986-, et al.
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To use a recipe - not a piece of cake. Students with mild intellectual disabilities' use of recipes in home economics.
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Consumer Studies. - : Wiley. - 1470-6423 .- 1470-6431. ; 38, s. 412-418
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recipes are not only part of today's cooking culture, they are also part of the Swedish syllabus of home economics. The aim of this study was to investigate what kinds of difficulties students with mild intellectual disabilities have using recipes during cooking lessons in home economics. We conducted an ethnographically inspired approach, with a total of 44h of accompanying observations. Three compulsory schools for students with intellectual disabilities were enrolled in the study, and 37 students and three teachers were included. The socio-cultural theory of learning has been used as a theoretical framework. The findings reveal both that recipes are central artefacts during the cooking lessons and that the students have various difficulties using the recipes. The difficulties vary, and they concern both how the recipes are designed and the purport of the recipes. Difficulties in relation to the design included, for example, the separation of ingredients and instructions in the text and the large amount of information given in both the whole and the parts of the recipes. The difficulties in relation to the purport – that is, the meaning or sense of the recipe – were the ingredients, the kitchen utensils and the knowledge of how to perform a specific task. These difficulties can be considered special in relation to the use of the recipes. We suggest the concept of ‘recipe literacy’ to capture the complex knowledge of using recipes.
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- Granberg, Albina, 1986-, et al.
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Knowing how to use and understand recipes: What arithmetical understanding is needed when students with mild intellectual disabilities use recipes in practical cooking lessons in Home Economics?
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Consumer Studies. - : Wiley. - 1470-6423 .- 1470-6431. ; 41:5, s. 494-500
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to explore what arithmetical understanding is needed when students with mild intellectual disabilities use recipes during practical cooking lessons in Home Economics. The settings were compulsory schools in Sweden attended by students with intellectual disabilities. Sixteen lessons in Home Economics during which cooking took place were observed. In total, 37 students and three teachers participated. All students had a mild intellectual disability. Their ages varied, but most were between 13 and 14 years old. The sociocultural perspective on learning, combined with a literacy framework, was used as a theoretical foundation for the study. Main findings are that students need an arithmetical understanding of (i) how to interpret numbers, (ii) how to interpret and use units, and (iii) how to compute when using recipes. The knowledge and skills needed to be able to use a recipe are featured in the concept recipe literacy, capturing both theoretical, declarative knowledge and the more practical, procedural knowledge. Recipe literacy can be used to theorize the use of recipes when learning to cook, as in Home Economics.
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