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- Schmidl, Helen, 1975-
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Från vildmark till grön ängel : Receptionsanalyser av läsning i åttonde klass
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The subject of this dissertation is Swedish upper secondary pupils’ reception of novels read as part of their literature instruction. The main purpose is to study and compare the reading of female pupils with that of male pupils and to analyze to what extent attention is paid to their private reading experiences in the literary teaching. What strategies do the students use to interpret and discuss fiction? And what is the relationship between their private reading habits and the way fiction is studied at school? Consequently, the subject field of this qualitative study concerns not only teenagers’ private reading habits, but also gender related issues, school adjusted reading routines and didactic matters.Reading at school differs in many ways from the pupils’ private reading habits, but there are also differences regarding the students’ attitudes towards reading as such. There proved to be certain diversities between the reading habits of boys and girls. The boys read in general less than the girls, and many boys were interested in reading adventurous and exciting stories. The girls were more into reading realistic novels, and to them it was important that they could identify with the characters. Many pupils responded personally to their reading. Instead of reflecting on the meaning of a text and comparing it to other texts or phenomena of the surrounding world, their reception confined itself to categories like “boring” or “exciting”. Merely a few students included a more profound literary analysis in their responses.An important aim of literature instruction must be to broaden the pupils’ literary repertoires and to make them improve their reading skills. This study shows that to achieve these improvements the students must feel involved, which means that literature instruction must be adapted to the literary cultures of both boys and girls.
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- Strandberg, Tommy, 1950-
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Varde ljud! : Om skapande i skolans musikundervisning efter 1945
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study deals with creative music making in the compulsory comprehensive school’s music instruction. This is an educational effort and is carried out within the framework for the research area Educational work. The objective is, in investigations, steering documents, and teaching material, from 1945 and onwards, as well as through observations of classroom practice today, to describe the discourse about creative music making in music in the Swedish compulsory comprehensive school, and discuss its importance for the field of music and music instruction. The problem area encompasses questions about how generation of knowledge and practice is regulated in the instruction. The empirical material in form of transcriptions from interviews with teachers and students, as well as field notes and recordings from classroom observations together with general texts compose the inter-textual chains that form the discourse about creative music making. The study has a historical beginning inspired by Michel Foucaults’ discourse concept. The regulating and normalizing procedures are used as analytical tools that create the discourse. The study puts in focus the recommended practices in the cited texts. The qualitative differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities are sought, as well as the definitions and categorizing that is done in the texts. Information which is repeated in several sources, and deviates or breaks with frequently occurring content in the texts is noted. “Creative music making” has been categorized in relation to the individual, socially and in musical contexts. Analysis has been carried out as change over time related to the subject of music and from creative music making’s suggested goals and functions. Access to current school practice has been made through observations and interviews with teachers and students during lessons that contain creative music making activities as well as analyses of these in relation to the texts. In the analysis work, keywords are sought that provide a foundation for categorizing the material. With the establishment of the discourse a descriptive analysis about the remarks that have been registered is made. The classroom studies were carried out at 4 different schools where the four teachers who have been followed were interviewed. Shorter interviews were made with some of their colleagues and with those students, whose work has been followed. The result shows that the power which is exercised in the discourse affects both planning and organization of music instruction, like choice of content and work forms. In the discourse the categories freedom as recreation, creating music making as a we can and you can, the classroom as a musical practice room for the individual and social cultivation, contemporary culture orienting and to play is to create are constructed. The discourse about creating in music instruction functions as a tool for the changes in school that prepares the compulsory comprehensive school’s actualization. The reform and learning by doing ideas together with ideas about aesthetics and social cultivation of the individual towards democracy, and an active participation in society and cultural life is a part of the discourse. Today, this makes up the structural elements in the description of creative music making. The musical style and genre appears to be important as musical frames in the creative music making activities but also for the working methods and contents. In the discussion, the discourse on creative music making is linked to the larger space that ensemble music making has received in music instruction. Creative music making’s culture-oriented functions are linked to music as important phenomenon for the individual and society. Keywords: creative music making, discourse, music instruction, educational work, school, history of education, creativity, aesthetics, popular music, youth
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- Lundström, Stefan
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Textens väg : om förutsättningar för texturval i gymnasieskolans svenskundervisning
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis looks at conditions for selections of fictional texts in the Swedish subject in the upper secondary school. Three different empirical materials have contributed to the understanding of what conditions there are for the texts to enter the classroom. The first material consists of national policy documents from 1970 to 2005. Here there is a tendency that the student goes from being an object for knowledge to becoming a subject that creates his/her own knowledge. With this development the contents and the given aims with the subject become more abstract, which leads to the framework of the curriculum becoming wider and more difficult to interpret. Simultaneously the focus is moved from mediation of given knowledge, to the development of an identity for the individual.The second material consists of debate and method articles from Svenskläraren, a magazine for members, published by an organisation of Swedish teachers. The study comprise articles from the same period of time as the national curricula. In the articles there are three tendencies reflecting the changes in the discourse of the Swedish subject. The first tendency shows how the overall ideological debate on the subject disappears during this period. The second tendency shows how discussions about the conceptions of the subject is replaced by more and more concrete examples of methods. The third tendency depicts that the concrete text selections have moved from being partly predetermined during the seventies to become debated during the eighties, to finally during the nineties end up in a situation where some texts has a sufficient cultural capital not to need justifications, whereas others need it.The third material consists of interviews with, and observations of, four active teachers, in order to find what conditions there are for text selections in their rhetoric and practice. The results show a clear impression of informal institutional factors and of the school culture. However, this seems to decrease with experience. There are big differences in how the teachers speak about text selections and text use and what the result becomes in practice. Here professionalism in form of knowledge in subject didactics could have a vast impact.
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