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- Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine, 1956-, et al.
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Making the invisible visible. On participation and communication in a global, web-based master's programme
- 2006
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Ingår i: Higher Education. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0018-1560 .- 1573-174X. ; 52:1, s. 69-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses on the discourse of an intercontinental on-line Master's programme in adult learning, using English as the lingua franca of the programme and involving four collaborating universities in Sweden, South Africa, Canada and Australia. The programme is highly interactive, emphasising communication between students. Taking the variation in participation as the point of departure, a discourse analysis aiming at analysing the contingencies contributing to the pattern of communication in the programme was undertaken. Data consist of a variety of texts on-line web-documents, written notes, and narratives that participants wrote about their lives related to participation in the programme. The use of English as the lingua franca contributed to a mistake anxiety, which for some students was hampering their communication in the programme. Aspects of the material world such as the vast differences in the efforts and costs for participating in the programme were also highly interrelated to the shaping of socio-culturally situated identities among the students and thereby contributing to the variation in frequency in participation. The results show that the official discourse of the programme as a text, with its emphasis on equity, change and development, gets subordinated to the discourses produced and reproduced by the students in the programme as a discursive practice and social practice. The students' accounts reveal that there are fragments of an alternative discourse emerging, based on mutual concern and friendship, which might suggest a potential for changing the communicative patterns in the programme.
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- Boud, David, et al.
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Creating a world class program : Reciprocity and constraints in global study.
- 2006
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Ingår i: International Journal of Lifelong Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0260-1370 .- 1464-519X. ; 25:6, s. 609-622
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article reflects on the construction of a common Master's programme across four universities located on four continents, in order to explore the role of networks in international educational collaboration. The study draws on the documented processes of the principal members of the programme team. It is presented as a case study of the development of the programme that uses ideas drawn from actor-network theory to draw attention to the conjunction of human and non-human actors that shaped the resulting web-based courses. Constraints arising from major institutional and systemic obstacles were addressed through the effects of the actor-network. The reciprocity of action and de-centring of individual activity made possible through the collaboration enabled the human actors to sustain a level of innovation within their own institutions that would not have been possible through them acting alone.
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- Boud, David, et al.
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Making sense of new forms of practice : multiple perspectives in researching an intercultural programme across continents.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults,2006.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focus of the symposium is on researching a programme with multiple sites of practice (in four conutries on four continents), learners distributed across the world and an emphasis on a pedagogy that embeds intercultural understanding. Studies from different perspectives are used to explore research issues in intercultural courses.
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- Larsson, Staffan, 1947-, et al.
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Confronting globalisation : The cahllenges of creating space for global learning
- 2002
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Ingår i: The Adult Education Research Conference, In Raleigh, N.C. USA , May 2002,2002.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An analysis of the problems and solutions in the planning af a masters programme - "the intercontinental master in adult learning and global change" - that was developed in cooperation between four universities, situated in four different continents.
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