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- Lundesjö Kvart, Susanne, 1969-
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Konsten att undervisa ryttare : En studie om ridlärares pedagogiska praktik
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis concerns how riding teachers’ reflect upon their teaching and how they teach. The overall aim of the thesis is to contribute with knowledge about how riding lessons are organized, regarding both the accomplishment of lessons as activity systems and the interactional organization of instructional work. Horseback riding can be understood as an embodied and practical knowledge, and includes communication and collaboration between horse and rider, sometimes referred to as equestrian feel (Dashper, 2016). Two different theoretical perspectives were applied to explore how such knowledge is taught. Activity theory (Engeström, 1987) was used to analyze interviews with and observations of ten riding teachers about their understanding and implementation of their pedagogical practice. Teachers’ and students’ interactions during riding lessons were examined using an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach (Goodwin, 2000; Schegloff, 1996). The analyses were based on video-recordings of ten group lessons and 40 one-on-one riding lessons.The results show that riding lessons can be conceptualized as activity systems where the focus of teaching constantly changes; from horse to student to routine. Traditions and safety regulations are shown to generate contradictions that may hinder the teachers from developing their teaching. However, the teachers express a wish to use more student collaborative methods, and display an intention to communicate with students about equestrian feel. Another result unveils how the teacher and the individual students, within the mobile context of riding lessons, make instructional sequences possible by co-creating instructional spaces. A third result illuminates the participants’ collaborative work to make equestrian feel available for instruction. The teacher molds equestrian feel through online instructions, i.e., instructions produced during the students’ active riding. These instructions shift focus between the students’ seat and influence, the horse’s actions and the student’s embodied feel. Moreover, the teachers are shown to use visual, verbal and embodied resources as they interpret equestrian feel for the student. In sum, the studies shed light on the complex art of teaching practical and embodied knowledge of riding.
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- Persson, Helén
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Historia i futurum : Progression i historia i styrdokument och läroböcker 1919-2012
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Facing an unknown future, the meaning of history is not primarily a fixed set of knowledge about the past, but a well-developed historical consciousness. This is a generic skill, emanating from an understanding of history as something that we are, and at the same time as something that we create. From a historical-cultural perspective, the learning process can be described with a point of departure in questions stemming from the life- and experience-world, looking genealogically toward the past. With a point of departure in pedagogical theories of the learning process, and a development described as fact, interpretation and consciousness, the question follows as to how the development is expressed in the curricula and textbooks in school between 1919 and 2012 and how studying history can contribute to the progress as it is described above. A number of dichotomies have been identified as tools of analysis, describing the space of interpretation between history as science and history as life- and experience-worlds. The goal is a well-developed historical consciousness defined as the ability to simultaneously interpret the past, understand the present and have perspectives on the future.
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- Persson Osowski, Christine, 1978-
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The Swedish School Meal as a Public Meal : Collective Thinking, Actions and Meal Patterns
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study what role the Swedish school meal has as a public meal in Swedish culture. An additional aim is to study the meal patterns of children, including the school meal.An ethnological questionnaire with 192 informants was used to study people’s perceptions and memories of the school meal. The school meal was seen as part of the Swedish welfare state, but also as a second-class meal, which did not live up to the ideal, which was a meal with the same values as a meal served at home.Observations in school canteens (25 hours), interviews with the school meal staff (six informants) and focus group interviews with children in grade 4-5 (seven groups with a total of 52 children) were carried out at three schools in central Sweden. Firstly, the data was analysed as to how the teachers interacted with the children in relation to the pedagogic meal. The teachers took on three different roles: “the sociable teacher role”, “the educating teacher role” and “the evasive teacher role”. Secondly, the children’s understanding of food and meals in the school meal context was analysed. The results showed that the children used ideas from the adult world among their peers in the school meal situation. This included the implementation of institutional commensality, the telling of stories about food and the classification of foods in dichotomies.A questionnaire covering the meal patterns of the children and intake of some snack foods was also distributed to the children attending grade 4-5 at the three schools and their parents. Matched pairs (n=147) were analysed for agreement. Most children had a regular meal pattern, and there was general agreement between child and parent reports, except for sweets and chocolate.The expectations on the school meal are high. At the same time, there appears to be a social construction depicting the school meal in a negative way. In order to come to terms with the negative public view of the school meal, the social construction of the school meal needs to be addressed.
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