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- Langelotz, Lill, 1968-, et al.
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Changing Educational Practices in the Light of the Theory of Pracitce ARchitectures
- 2019
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Ingår i: NERA 2019 Education in a Globalized World 6-8 March 2019.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This symposium is exploring how research and theoretical recourses reveal structures that constrain, enable or force changes in educational practices. In an uncertain time, when for example democratic values are at stake in Europe, schools democratic fulfilling, and the professionals’ possibilities to explore and change their practices are fundamental. In a number of different empirical studies, across different educational settings, from preschool to higher education in Sweden, we address two fundamental questions: What is happening in this educational practice? How can we understand it? The theory of practice architectures (Kemmis & Grootenboer, 2008; Kemmis et.al, 2014) was applied to explore the educational practices and the conditions that enabled and constrained them in their sites. Practice is here understood open and changeable and are activities hanging together in time and space (Schatzki, 2002). According to the theory, practices are shaped and hold in place by three kinds of overlapping arrangements: Cultural-discursive arrangements such as how discourses and languages affect what is possible to sayin and about practice (e.g., deficit discourses, critical discourses, discipline-specific discourses, languages). Material-economic arrangements, how material, technological, financial, organisational, and other resources affect what it is possible to doin practice (e.g., buildings, schedules, workload calculators, funding). Social-political arrangements are arrangements that affect the ways in which it is possible for people to relateto others (and things and places) in practice (e.g., organisational rules, mandates, solidarities, hierarchies). In this symposium, we would like to first: present the theory and discuss it as a methodological, theoretical and analytical resource for professionals in educational settings (Nicolini, 2012), and second: discuss some of the results from the empirical cases, which highlight how practices in different ways can be understood from the lens of the theory of practice architectures e.g. how practices are hold in place from cultural-discursive, material-economic and social-political arrangements. How these arrangements enable and constrain practices at the site. And finally, the studies will show how the theory gives an understanding on how to be able to change practices, often in dialogue with teachers/leaders. References 890 Nicolini, D. (2012). Practice Theory, Work and Organization. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Kemmis, S., & Grootenboer, P. (2008). Situating praxis in practice: Practice architectures and the cultural, social and material conditions for practice. In S. Kemmis & T. J. Smith (Eds.), Enabling praxis: Challenges for education (pp. 37–62). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Kemmis, S., Wilkinson, J., Edwards-Groves, C., Hardy, I., Grootenboer, P. & Bristol, L. (2014). Changing Practices, Changing Education. Springer Verlag, Singapore. Schatzki, T.R. (2002). The site of the social: a philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change.University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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- Langelotz, Lill, 1968-, et al.
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Continuing Professional Development – a Threat to Teacher Professionalism
- 2022
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Ingår i: AERA annual meeting San Diego 21-26 April 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper asks following burning question: Where is a critical know-whyperspective on education, in teachers’ continuing professional development(CPD)? Point of departure is the first result of an ongoing (2020-2023)government funded research project in Sweden. A follow-the-money approachwas used to collect data. 1000 invoices, from three Swedish municipalities,were inductively analyzed and categorized. The results exposed how ethicalissues, climate crises, and social (in)justice are almost absent in the CPDcontentas is critical know-why professional knowledge. Framed by the notionof professionalism, we here further explore one of the municipalities anddiscuss fast policies imprint on local sites, the lack of cultivating know-whyknowledge, and how CPD might be a threat to teachers’ professionalism.
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- Langelotz, Lill, 1968-, et al.
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How is teacher professionalism in Sweden shaped in an era of marketisation of teachers’ continuing professional development?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Transforming the Future of Education: the Role of Reserach.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an international body of knowledge about teacher development in general as well as the potential problems with commercial actors in the CPD-field. Less is known about the CPD-content and the impact it has on teachers’ professionalism. The aim of this paper is to investigate what types of teacher professionalism that a CPD-field dominated by commercial actors shape in Sweden. The starting point is an analysis of 679 invoices and the content (knowledge) offered on the CPD-market, and purchased under two years. The result is part of an ongoing research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (2020-2023).679 invoices from 73 schools were collected. The coding built on the extraction of information from the total set of invoices and on entering data into a statistic program file (SPSS) consisting of a multitude of variables – both deductively and inductively set. A practice-ecological ontology, the theory of practice architectures (TPA) is adopted, to explore how CPD-practices shape teacher practices and teacher professionalism. CPD concerns changing peoples’ sayings-doings-relatings i.e. practices (like teaching). To analyse how the CPD-content shape Swedish teachers, teacher professionalism is here conceptualized as three constituent components: behavioural, attitudinal, and intellectual. These components are previously described as overlapping but analytically seperable. The behavioural change, dominate. Teachers are supposed to develop various teaching skills related to for example computer-programs, to diagnose students and to meet students' reading-, mathematics- or communication- difficulties. This CPD is part of a world-wide edu-tech-business. The attitudinal component, where teachers’ attitudes are (to be) modified, is indeed visible in the data. Costs concern kick- off/summing-up-the-year activities, including conference-facilities, food, etc. The principal, teachers or the school health group are engaged in the content delivered. Teacher-collaboration, student-motivation or school-development etc. is focussed. Another CPD-content, overlapping attidunal and behavioural changes. Teachers are supposed to change their behaviour in relation to “problematic student behaviour” and diagnoses like ADHD. The intellectual component is not as frequent. Subject-specific CPD in Mathematics or Second Language Teaching is , however, purschased. Next step in the project is teacher- and principal-interviews to investigate the experiences of and motives for the CPD purchased and, to get hold of the CPD that take place without generating any fees. and to trace the arangments that enable and/or constrain CPD-practices. The study is limited to three (of 278) municipalities in Sweden, both national and international studies would benefit the knowledge development
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- Levinsson, Magnus, et al.
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Den samtida diskursen om hjärnans betydelse i utbildning : Analys av artikel i en lärarfacklig tidning.
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Filosofen Ian Hacking (2004) har med en kritisk hållning utsett det första århundradet av 2000-talet till ’hjärnans århundrade’. Med detta tycks följa en stärkt diskurs om hjärnans betydelse inte bara i allmänhet utan också i utbildning. Parallellt med denna löper diskursen om elevers försämrade kunskaper. Givet detta är syftet med vår presentation att bidra med en kritisk förståelse för, och analys av, hur elevers bristande lärande konstrueras som ett neurobiologiskt fenomen och vilka åtgärder som föreslås utifrån detta.Som utgångspunkt för vår analys har vi en strategiskt vald artikel ur Lärarnas tidning. I artikeln görs det en stor poäng av att lärare behöver mer kunskap om tonårshjärnan för att kunna anpassa undervisningen efter just dessa elevers specifika behov och på så vis förbättra villkoren för deras lärande. För analysen har vi vänt oss till diskursanalytikern Norman Fairclough (2003) och följt en av flera av dennes övergripande analysnycklar. Denna hjälper oss att exempelvis visa i vilka nätverk av sociala praktiker som det aktuella fenomenet är placerat och uppstår. Vårt angreppssätt inkluderar en transitivitetsanalys byggd på systemisk-funktionell lingvistik (SFL). Med ett särskilt fokus på den ideationella metafunktionen undersöks hur erfarenheter framställs, vilka aktörer och aktiviteter som är inblandade och vilka omständigheterna är kring dessa aktiviteter.Genom detta angreppssätt är vår ambition att förstå hur problemet med elevers bristande lärande är rotat i hur vårt sociala liv är ordnat, det vill säga vad som avgör att man idag letar förklaringar till ett framställt problem i neurologiska företeelser snarare än i didaktiska eller ideologiska. Den status som hjärnforskning har i förhållande till pedagogisk forskning tycks innebära en maktförskjutning som medför att forskare inom pedagogik och didaktik marginaliseras i den aktuella debatten om skolan. Nya fynd inom hjärnforskningen lyfts fram av olika intressenter som lösningen på elevernas sjunkande kunskapsresultat, dock utan att relatera dessa fynd till mer grundläggande pedagogiska och didaktiska frågor. I vår presentation drar vi slutsatser kring vad resultatet innebär för lärare, elever och underv
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- Levinsson, Magnus, et al.
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En samtida diskurs om betydelsen av fysisk aktivitet för undervisning och lärande : Kritisk analys av artiklar i lärarfackliga tidskrifter.
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Studies in Education. - : Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 1891-5914 .- 1891-5949. ; 42:3, s. 249-271
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how teacher union journals in Sweden construct (1) problems related to teaching and learning assumed to be caused by pupils’ physical inactivity, and (2) solutions regarding how and by whom these problems should be addressed. This is done through a critical discourse analysis of four strategically selected articles published in two teacher union journals where researchers, physicians, school leaders and teachers are interviewed about the potential of more physical activity in schools. The overall conclusion is that the examined teacher union journal articles connect physical activity to teaching and learning in ways that de-professionalise teachers.
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- Levinsson, Magnus, et al.
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En samtida diskurs om hjärnans betydelse för undervisning och lärande : Kritisk analys av artiklar i lärarfackliga tidskrifter
- 2018
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Ingår i: Utbildning och Lärande / Education and Learning. - Falun : Högskolan Dalarna. - 2001-4554. ; 12:1, s. 7-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to shed light on 1) how representatives of a certain research field, i.e. neuroscience, view problems in the classroom and 2) how and by whom these problems should be addressed. This is done through a critical discourse analysis of four strategically selected articles published in two teacher union journals where neuroscientifically oriented researchers and teachers are interviewed about the potential of brain-based education. Our analysis follows five steps. Firstly, we identify how the problem of learning is constructed by neuroscientists and teacher union journals in combination and, secondly, what measures are suggested as appropriate to address the problem. In a third step, we identify the network of practices in which interviewed neuroscientists make up the hub. Towards the end, we report the inconsistencies and gaps emerging from the analysis and reflect on potential methodological problems. The overall conclusion is that representatives of neuroscience apply brain research to teaching and learning in ways that de-professionalise teachers.
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