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- Lindahl, Britt, et al.
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Socio-scientific Issues : A Way to Improve Students’ Interest and Learning?
- 2011
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Ingår i: US-China Education Review B. - New York : David Publishing Company. - 2161-6248 .- 1548-6613 .- 1930-1529. ; 8:9, s. 342-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to many documents, there is a strong need to renew science education. One way could be to work with SSI (socio-scientific issues). This paper reports on both students' and teachers' experiences and learning when working with socio-scientific issues in science education in secondary school (aged from 13 to 16). The approach is multidimensional, as factors that influence cognition as well as motivation and the forming of attitudes are complex. Results suggest that SSI work forms are more important than personal factors for explaining outcomes. Relevant issues, autonomy and functioning group work seem to be important aspects of successful SSI work together with structure provided by the teacher, and information that challenges previous knowledge. In general, SSI seems to be most efficient for students, who believe that they learn from presenting and discussing their knowledge, focus on "the large picture", acknowledge own responsibility for learning, find school science personally relevant and are self-efficacious. It seems that the outcomes from SSI work are much in the hands of the teacher. This paper is a short summary of the first year and quantitative part of the project. Further results from the project will later be found in our homepage (http://www.sisc.se).
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- Westerberg, Vicktoria, 1975-
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Skolans tillfälliga bakdörr? : en studie om den särskilda undervisningsgruppen i relation till skolans inkluderande uppdrag
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Although the Swedish compulsory school’s mission is inclusive, there are segregated settings available for students in need of special needs education. The special teaching group is such a setting, and according to the Education Act (SFS 2010:800, 3 chap. 11§) possible to apply when there are special reasons. This thesis aims to understand how the special teaching group is constructed in relation to the inclusive mission of school. To achieve this aim, four questions are answered: (1) How is the organization of the work with special teaching groups described? (2) How is the image constructed of the students placed in special teaching groups? (3) What expectations are made visible in the school staff's talk about support in special teaching groups? (4) How do the school staff talk about the considerations made when placing students in special teaching groups to receive support? The material analysed is derived from four collections of empirical material: one material consisting of data from 30 Swedish municipalities’ organisation of special teaching groups, one consisting of 48 action programs belonging to students placed in special teaching groups, one consisting of data from focus group interviews in which 14 teachers, special need teachers and principals participated, and one consisting of data from individual interviews with 30 principals. The focus of the thesis is the school staff's way of speaking and reasoning about the special teaching group, both in talk and in writing. The material has been analysed discursively: in a first step to show how discourses on an individual level are activated when school staff talk about the special teaching group, and in a second step to understand how talk at an individual level is enabled by various community level discourses linked to inclusion. The analysis shows that three societal discourses compete to fixate the meaning of inclusion. The three discourses offer different ways in which inclusion can be understood, and relate to knowledge, values or health. The analysis shows that school staff activates all three discourses, but they prioritize students’ health. The study contributes to an understanding of how the special teaching group offers an opportunity to meet the educational needs of students by opening an informal back door from the regular but unsatisfactory educational situation. At the same time, the study highlights the issue of how placement in a special teaching group does not contribute to creating an understanding of how mainstream teaching can meet the diverse needs of students in general. Nor does the placement generate the resources needed realizing it.
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- Adolfsson, Lena, 1955-
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Attityder till naturvetenskap : Förändringar av flickors och pojkars attityder till biologi, fysik och kemi 1995 till 2007
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den här avhandlingen beskrivs hur hög- och lågpresterande flickors och pojkars attityder till biologi, fysik och kemi har förändrats från 1995 till 2007. Data från den svenska delen av TIMSS-studierna för årskurs 8 i Sverige används. För att definiera hög- och lågpresterande används resultatet på matematikprovet från TIMSS och attityderna undersöks med hjälp av fyra frågor från elevenkäterna. Resultatet diskuteras utifrån olika perspektiv som kan bidra till förståelsen av den komplexa bilden av olika faktorers betydelse för elevers attityder till naturvetenskap. Det första resultatet, pojkar är mer positiva till fysik och kemi och flickor till biologi, diskuteras utifrån ämnenas genuskodning. På ett symboliskt plan är fysik och kemi mer förknippade med maskulinitet än biologi. Det andra resultatet, högpresterande elever och särskilt pojkar, är mindre positiva till de tre ämnena 2007 än 1995. Det resultatet diskuteras mot bakgrund av ungdomars identitet och identitetskonstruktion. Det verkar som om unga människor i dag inte tycker att utbildningar och arbeten inom det naturvetenskapliga och tekniska området ger dem möjligheter att använda sina talanger, kreativitet och självförverkligande. Resultatet diskuteras också utifrån de förändringar av arbetsmetoder som har skett i svensk skola där det individuella arbetet har ökat och lärarledda genomgångar har minskat. Kan det ha påverkat de högpresterande eleverna så att de har blivit mindre stimulerade och fått färre utmaningar och på så sätt blivit mindre positiva till de naturvetenskapliga ämnena? Det tredje resultatet, en större andel hög- och lågpresterande pojkar tycker att de tre ämnena är tråkiga 2007 jämfört med 1995, diskuteras utifrån begreppen "antipluggkultur" och att vara "cool". Kan resultatet från denna studie indikera att det är viktigare för pojkar 2007 att ha en attityd att visa sig ”cool” och att inte plugga. Kan detta ha påverkat attityderna till de naturvetenskapliga ämnena negativt? Slutligen visar resultaten att lågpresterande flickor och pojkar tycker att de presterar bättre 2007 än 1995 och det diskuteras mot bakgrund av förändringarna av arbetsmetoder i den svenska skolan. Mer tid ägnas åt individuellt arbete vilket kan innebära att de lågpresterande eleverna väljer att inte arbeta med svårare uppgifter och att de därför upplever att de presterar bättre. Avhandlingen avslutas med mina egna reflektioner kring undervisningen i de naturvetenskapliga ämnena i grundskolan, kring förändringarna av flickors och pojkars attityder till naturvetenskap utifrån resultaten från denna studie och kring mina erfarenheter som lärare i dessa ämnen.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Academic Career : On institutions, social capital and gender
- 2018
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Ingår i: Higher Education Research and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0729-4360 .- 1469-8366. ; 37:6, s. 1095-1108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During decades of change in the Western higher education sector, new ways of understanding academic work have reinforced notions of the impact of social capital. The present study investigates researchers’ experiences of their own career making within two areas of Education Sciences in Swedish higher education: Childhood Studies (CS) and Science Education (SE). The structure at the CS departments is collaborative and integrated; teaching and research are seen as an entity. This structure creates a coherent career path where members of the collective group jointly produce and accumulate social capital; it also appears to be related to discourses of femininity. In the SE departments, the career structure is strategic and differentiated; the two career paths work in parallel through a differentiation between teaching and research. This appears to be related to discourses of masculinity. In conclusion, our analysis shows how social capital and gender mutually create different ways of doing an academic career.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Akademisk karriär i sociala nätverk
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. En studie inom det utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet.. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9781608057276 ; , s. 124-142
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Assembling lines in research education : Challenges, choices and resistance among Swedish doctoral students
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2398-4686 .- 2398-4694. ; 10:2, s. 142-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The higher education sector in Sweden has, over decades, faced increasing demands in terms of efficiency rates in research, as well as increasing demands in the international competition for external revenue. These demands have influenced academic career trajectories and postdoctoral tracks as well as the everyday work of doctoral students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how doctoral students express and challenge subjectivity in the present context of research education.Design/methodology/approach – The authors depart from the overall understanding that doctoral students’ lines of actions in research education depend on and form assemblages and, thus, define an academic institution. By re-analysing eight in-depth interviews, they illustrate how doctoral students from different milieus not only comply but also challenge, use border-crossings and change directions in research education.Findings – The results show that some of these doctoral students try to act as loyal and satisfied, especially in regard to their supervisors, whereas others use coping strategies and resistance. It is illustrated that when some of the students use “unsecure” molecular lines, they appear more open to redefining possibilities and change, in comparison with those on more stable molar lines. Those acting on molar lines sometimes express a lack of emotional (productive) engagement, even though this particular group tend to more often get access to rewarded assemblages. These patterns are partly gender-related.Social implications – The tension between finding more stable lines and spaces for change is apparent in doctoral students’ subjectivity, but also how this tension is related to gender. The women doctoral students appear not only more mobile but also in a sense more alert than their men peers. This offers insights in how actions define and redefine not only academic institutions but also different subjectivities.Originality/value – In the present, given the manifold demands on academic institutions, new insights and methodological approaches are necessary to illustrate how contemporary changes affect research education and the everyday life of doctoral students.
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- Angervall, Petra, et al.
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Gendered networks in academia
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes as a starting point the complexities and proposed changes of contemporary power relations within academia recognised throughout the Western world. For example, it is said that ‘traditional’ gender relations are losing ground as growing numbers of women position themselves in e.g. educational research (Murray & Maguire, 2007; Arnesen et al., 2008; HSV, 2008). However, the pattern is still that men occupy more senior positions (Ducklin & Ozga, 200; Kurtz-Costes et al., 2006; Silander, 2010). Notwithstanding, institutions are influenced by a growing performative discourse, which might affect the dominating power and gender relations in research work (Acker, 2008). Our paper presents preliminary findings from a Swedish research project, Gender and career in academia, the main aim of which is to develop knowledge about gender and other power relations within universities. Six academic institutions were selected to present a variety of departments of education/educational sciences according to location, size, major orientation, traditions, and externally funded research. We also interviewed approximately 120 doctoral students and junior researches, in order to map structures, positions and relations within research groups, and in doctoral programmes (Smith, 2005). Theoretically, we draw on Ball’s (2008, 2009), Rhodes’ (1997) and Newman’s (2001) ideas of governance and networks in institutional contexts. It is argued that academic institutions, departments and milieus vary with regard to social and economic capital (Bourdieu, 1986; Field, 2009; Lin, 2002), used as resources for power. These resources promote certain networks and groups before others, they condition scientific interests, and how positions are given and ordered, i.e. they enable different careers. We further agree with Connell (1996, 2002) and others who underline that gender can be performed differently depending on contexts, i.e. the power and gender regimes do not automatically follow the prevalent gender order. In this paper we focus on one of the six selected academic institutions. The aim is to show how individual and collective resources are provided and used from a power and gender perspective. A preliminary analysis shows that subject discipline, research traditions and external funding influence junior researchers’ possibilities to access horizontal and vertical networks and other career productive resources. Also, former supervisors are found to act as gatekeepers to networks and capital which condition career paths. Notions of gender and other social categories impact on junior researchers’ possibilities to be seen as ‘promising’ researchers with potentials to make a successful career. The analysis also illustrates how positions in the horizontal institutional network tend to affect positions provided by the vertical network. Resources (social, economic) used and provided in the horizontal network are often needed in order for the researcher to be admitted into the vertical network. Further, aspects of trust play an important role in the process, where institutional networks and different positions are established. We also argue that many vertical networks promote performativity and thereby exclude those (often women) lacking legitimacy and certain resources for power.
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