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- Lindqvist, Gunilla
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Who Should do What to Whom? : Occupational Groups´Views on Special Needs
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this thesis is to increase our knowledge of different occupational groups´ views on work with children in need of special support. This is explored in four separate studies.The first study investigates the views of occupational groups in preschools and schools in one municipality. A questionnaire was handed out to all personnel (N=1297) in the municipality in 2008 (72.5 % response rate). The second study explores the views of educational leaders (N=45) in the same municipality. Questionnaire # 2 was distributed in 2009. All the educational leaders responded to the questionnaire. The third study describes the views of different occupational groups concerning special educational needs coordinators´ (SENCOs) role and work. This was highlighted by comparing responses from questionnaire #1 and # 2. Responses concerning SENCOs´ work were also added using a third questionnaire. This questionnaire was handed out in 2006 to chief education officers (N=290) in all municipalities in Sweden. The response rate was 90.3%. Finally, the fourth study presents five head teachers´ descriptions of their work with special needs issues. Study four was a follow-up study of questionnaire # 2. These head teachers were selected because of their inclusive values and because they seemed to be effective according to certain criteria. They were interviewed in January 2012.The results reveal a number of interesting findings. For example, there are both similar and different views among the occupational groups concerning work with children in need of special support. A majority of the respondents in all groups state that children´s individual deficiencies is one common reason why children need special support in preschools/schools. Differences between the occupational groups become especially visible regarding their views of SENCOs‟ work.Critical pragmatism (Cherryholmes, 1988) is applied as a theoretical point of departure. Skrtic´s (1991) critical reading and analysis of special education relative to general education is specifically used to interpret and discuss the outcome of the studies. Additionally, Abbott´s (1988) reasoning concerning the “division of expert labor” is used to discuss the occupational groups´ replies concerning “who should do what to whom”.The findings in the studies are contextualized and theoretically interpreted in the separate articles. However in the first part of this thesis (in Swedish: Kappa), the theoretical interpretations of the empirical outcome are discussed in more detail and the results are further contextualized and synthesised. Inclusion and premises for inclusive education are also discussed in more depth in the first part of the present thesis.
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- Lundqvist, Johanna, 1975-, et al.
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Digitala verktyg och differentierad undervisning i tidiga skolår : Ett storskaligt utvecklings- och forskningsprojekt för lärarprofessionen i framtidens förskola och skola (2019–2021)
- 2024
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The development and research collaboration project concerned digital tools and differentiated instruction in early school years. It was conducted in Södermanland, Sweden. By the concept early school years was meant preschool, preschool class, school-age educare, and grades 1 to 3. In the project, knowledge and school development were co-produced by researchers and junior lecturers together with school leaders and teachers in several preschools and schools.By the concept teachers was meant for example preschool teachers, teachers in school-age educare, teachers in school, special needs teachers, special educators, ICT (InformationCommunication-Technology) educators and school librarians. The concept school leaders included headteacher in preschool, headteacher in school and also deans.The aim of the development part of the collaboration project was to develop teachers’ and school leader’s digital and didactic competence. Two lines for co-production of development were used. In first line, researchers and junior lecturers from Mälardalen university arranged day conferences for teachers and school leaders in Södermanland. Sixtyseven teachers and school leaders participated. The day conferences contained popular science lectures, exchange of experiences, research circles, retrospects of previous day conferences and municipality meetings. The day conferences concerned how instruction is made meaningful and interesting for all children in preschool and school, choice and use of digital tools in preschool and school instruction and also evaluations. In second line, the sixtyseven teachers and school leaders spread the contents of the day conferences further to colleagues at their respective workplaces. They also conducted activities with these colleagues, for example implemented a new digital tool in the instruction and also evaluated the use of a digital tool. In total, 243 persons participated.The aim of the research part of the collaboration project was to describe and analysedifferentiated and digitalised instruction in early school years in Södermanland. The collection of data for the project was made in connection with the day conferences in the first line: the research circles and retrospects of previous day conferences were recorded and constituted data for the research part of the collaboration project. Results from the development and research collaboration project were presented for the project participants. Results from the project, two research articles, were also published in ascientific journal and in the present final report. Moreover, results were presented at international research conferences, courses at universities, regional network meetings and kick-off-days in preschool. The final activities for the project were two regional day conferences. Participating teachers and school leaders were invited, and also other persons who were interested in digital tools and differentiated teaching.
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- Olsson, Maria, 1961-
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Lärares ledarskap som möjliggörande och begränsande i mötet med ’alla’ barn : En deltagarorienterad studie
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to, based on teachers’ experiences, describe and analyse meanings of teachers’ leadership in general, and in relation to children in need of special support in particular. The study was carried out within the tradition of participatory-oriented research, a research circle. The dialogues in the circle were based on the participants’ questions, experiences, interests, and knowledge. The circle included a researcher and nine teachers from the following types of schools: preschool, preschool class, compulsory school, and compulsory school for pupils with learning disabilities.The study is based on an understanding of leadership as a relational practice. Leadership is practised in the interaction between teacher and child. Both parties exert influence over the practice of leadership. A central assumption in the study is that knowledge can develop through and in interactions between people, that knowledge and power are connected, and that knowledge and actions are intertwined. Another central assumption is that learning is a complex phenomenon.In the analysis of the research circle’s dialogues, the following meanings of teachers’ leadership emerge: to facilitate learning and discipline, and to promote different interests. The practice of leadership involves teachers handling complex situations in their interactions with ‘all’ children, i.e. children in need of special support and children without such needs. Leadership is practised between teachers and children, and the teachers have to consider the group of children as a collective in relation to the individual children. At the same time, the teachers have to consider their intentions versus what happens during the interactions. In addition, the teachers have to pay heed to the fact that their own actions and the children’s actions influence one another. Finally, the teachers have to consider the individual child’s ‘best interest’ in relation to the requirements of the policy documents. Furthermore, the results indicate that the practice of leadership is perceived as both unpredictable and, to some extent, predictable at the same time, which adds to the complexity of leadership. The teachers cannot know for sure what the children understand or if the children’s actions facilitate learning. However, the teachers can make certain assumptions about how to practice leadership in order to facilitate learning and discipline in children with different needs. The meanings of leadership were expressed in different ways in the circle’s dialogues; both as enabling and limiting in interactions with children in need of special support. One of the study’s conclusions is that leadership seems to be particularly complex in interactions with children in need of special support.The research circle’s dialogues served to promote a democratic knowledge process. The dialogues were characterised by respect for the participants’ different opinions; however, this does not mean that they were free from power structures.
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- Wetso, Gun-Marie
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Aktivitetsteori som vägledning och metod
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Ingår i: Specialpedagogiskt ledarskap - för yrkesprofessionella i förskola - skola. - : Solentro. - 9789175652016 ; , s. 73-77
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- Wetso, Gun-Marie, 1955-
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Att anta utmaningen
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Ingår i: Skolportens årsbok 2007. - Stockholm : Skolporten. - 9789197623612 ; , s. 215-222
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