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- Aili, Carola, 1963-, et al.
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Research on teachers' professional lives : time to build a research network. Paper presented at NERA's 31st Congress, 6-9 March, Copenhagen
- 2003
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teachers’ work has during the last ten years gone through great changes. The effects of postmodern society has made the work more and morecomplex and difficult to handle and understand for those involved as well as outsiders. Researchers are trying to keep up with things. The developmentof knowledge of teachers’ work takes place on different levels, in separate disciplines, from various starting-points and with different foci.To be able to describe, understand and explain the »new« work of teachers in a vigorous way there is need of getting these research initiativestogether. Arenas should be established where interchanges and coordination between researchers could take place. In order to make this happen wehave the intention of building a Swedish (our aim is to expand the network to the Nordic countries after the establishment in Sweden) network ofresearch on teachers’ professional lives.Besides presenting the intention and design of our network we also bring along some examples of research projects in line with the network ideas.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951-
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A description of upper secondary school students' critical viewpoints concerning the interaction between teachers and students. Bidrag presenterat vid Nordiska Föreningen för Pedagogisk Forskning 15-18 mars
- 2001
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main purpose of this study is to describe and understand secondary school students´ critical viewpoint on their teachers´ attitudes and actions regarding interaction with students. The teachers are not seen as individuals, but as a collective force. A handful of theories serve as a theoretical basis for the paper. These discuss the following phenomena: the generation gap; interaction; relations between Human Services Organisations workers and their clients; dissonance in the interaction between teachers and students; and an attempt to define teacher professionality. A qualitative survey, with open and structured questions, has been answered by 110 students in upper secondary school. The answers have been categorized and compared to the theoretical framework. The main thesis is that the personal relationship between student and teacher is of vital importance to interaction in the classroom. The study shows that there is severe criticism of teachers in secondary school concerning student - teacher interaction.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951
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Changes in the time: Swedish upper secondary school and youth culture
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Ingår i: The 43rd Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association 4-6 March 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This presentation discuss how manifested edicts on Swedish school policies since the 1990s changes the organization of upper secondary schools, and how these alterations in turn exerted an influence on both teachers and students. The presentation is a tentative (and maybe normative) way of moving consciously and reflectively forward, to discuss tactics and strategies of a new kind in a changing world. A number of aspects are illustrated, for instance: how curriculum structures affect knowledge offered to students; contradictions between teachers' discretionary professionalism and curriculum and rating requirements; how spatial inequalities may impact students’ choices; and how marketization of schools affects factors such as school information, student health, grades, and teachers' work situation. A small case study illustrates upper secondary students’ views of the relationship between student and teachers. Finally, some theories and possible mechanisms are mentioned which may have a chance to provide explanations to the discussion; these are built on Ziehe, Mannheim and others. The overall discussion expresses something about some of the structural and institutional aspects that can be said to have an influencing role in the relatively immediate future of school and teaching activities.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951-
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In what ways can Lesson Studies, Variation Theory and Learning Studies help pre-service teachers to be better prepared for work?
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Ingår i: Abstracts book. ; , s. 1-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Education is a complex and difficult work. It is an immense responsibility to take care of the society’s young members and help them develop the necessary knowledge and required abilities essential for life in society. During the last centuries different theories and methods have been developed to help teachers to be prepared for the educational activity. Simultaneously we have seen that one problem for education and teachers is the gap between theory and practice, which perhaps has always been an issue. Two models to test and discuss teaching, learning and to accomplish a way to help learners are lesson and learning study. Lesson study is a method mostly used by experienced teachers to develop teaching regarding certain topics, to meet curriculum goals to help learners take initiative or develop certain learning prerequisites. Lesson studies are accomplished through research lessons in different forms, but all these build on teacher collaboration, self-critical reflection, and are in certain ways connected to demands from curriculum. Learning study, based on variation theory, is inspired from lesson study and design experiments. In learning studies researchers and teachers collaborate concerning targeted objects of learning and how to best help students to discern these. The theoretical base of variation theory guides teaching and learning, which focuses on the object of learning and how it should be varied, instead of focusing on the method or the context. Both models have shown positive results in practice. They definitely enhance teachers’, researchers’, and students’ knowledge as well as develop learning and teaching. But in what way can they enhance pre-service teachers in their knowledge about their upcoming practice? If you have tools helping you to understand or handle the somewhat difficult and complicated situation at school, your ability to do this in a more powerful way increases. This has been shown in the results of several studies of lesson and learning study, but what aspects are critical to such an increase and in what way can these models or this theory also be used in teacher education?
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- Brante, Göran, 1951
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Subjects didactics - a universal general didactic position?
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Ingår i: The 43rd Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association 4-6 March 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Subject didactics have got a vast influence in teacher education; you could say that it seems to be the focused and most important part in curricula for becoming teachers. But what is the difference between general and subject didactics? In subject didactic text books it is suggested that didactic subject knowledge is sufficient for thinking and planning of teaching, and/or that everything concerning school is subject didactics. The aim of the presentation is to problematize the concept of subject didactics and its claims in relation to planning and teaching subject knowledge. It is here proposed that subject matter planning and teaching within school education can be understood as general didactics, and that it is a universal statement. The universal position encompasses that aspects used for planning the teaching of a subject or a subject matter, can be applied to any subject or subject matter, any group of learners, and in any culture. This will be shown in two ways. First, three theories strongly involving thinking about subject matter for the planning of teaching, is used to illustrate that these actually are general didactic theories of how content can be thought about, treated and handled in the planning of teaching. It is Klafkis didactic analysis, the variation theory including learning study developed by Marton, and Whites theory of content dimensions. They are also all universal. 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 can be shown to be traditional general didactic positions. The claims in the articles are also universal in the above mentioned way. If this reasoning has credibility it should be reason to investigate more profoundly the intersection between general and subject didactics. Swedish teacher education policies, in line with the evidence discourse, emphasize subject knowledge. There may be a risk that the focus on subject knowledge will diminish the invaluable knowledge concerning personal, institutional and structural relations in classrooms.
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- Holmqvist, Mona, 1961-, et al.
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Defining an object of learning and the forms it appears in : the intended, enacted and lived object of learning in a learning situation
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Ingår i: The 4<sup>th</sup> International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics. Proceedings Volume I. - Winter Garden, FL, USA : International Institute of Informatics and Systematics. - 9781936338054 ; , s. 2-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to describe in what ways the object of learning changes shape during its way from the intended (planned), enacted (offered) and lived (discerned) object of learning. The study is based on variation theory, and learning study is used as a model. A total of three preschool teachers, 39 children aged 4-5 years and three researchers participated in the study. Three interventions were carried out in three different groups of children (A, B and C) by three preschool teachers. The data consist of video-dcumented meetings with the preschool teachers and researchers, interviews with the children in the form of pre-, post- and delayed post-tests and video-documented interventions (3). The results show (a) how the teachers' focus on aspects concerning the object of learning and aspects not concerning the object of learning affects learning possibilities. The results also show (b) a discrepancy between the children's possibilities to learn adn what the preschool teachers intend to offer them to learn. Finally, the results show (c) how the preschool teachers' understanding of childrens learning sometimes makes them use other words than the appropriate ones to make the intervention funnier or more interesting.
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