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- Finnveden, Göran, et al.
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Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1467-6370 .- 1758-6739. ; 21:4, s. 685-698
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose Since 2006, higher education institutions (HEIs) in Sweden, should according to the Higher Education Act, promote sustainable development (SD). In 2016, the Swedish Government asked the Swedish higher education authority to evaluate how this study is proceeding. The authority chose to focus on education. This paper aims to produce a report on this evaluation. Design/methodology/approach All 47 HEIs in Sweden were asked to write a self-evaluation report based on certain evaluation criteria. A panel was appointed consisting of academics and representatives for students and working life. The panel wrote an evaluation of each HEI, a report on general findings and recommendations, and gave an overall judgement of each HEI in two classes as follows: the HEI has well-developed processes for integration of SD in education or the HEI needs to develop their processes. Findings Overall, a mixed picture developed. Most HEIs could give examples of programmes or courses where SD was integrated. However, less than half of the HEIs had overarching goals for integration of SD in education or had a systematic follow-up of these goals. Even fewer worked specifically with pedagogy and didactics, teaching and learning methods and environments, sustainability competences or other characters of education for SD. Overall, only 12 out of 47 got a higher judgement. Originality/value This is a unique study in which all HEIs in a country are evaluated. This provides unique possibilities for identifying success factors and barriers. The importance of the leadership of the HEIs became clear.
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- Weldemariam, Kassahun, 1981, et al.
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Care and Social Sustainability in Early Childhood Education : Transnational Perspectives
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 14:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how the notion of care is conceptualised and described in early childhood education policies across countries in the majority (Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia) and minority (New Zealand and Sweden) world. A central focus is the relationship and balance between care and education. The authors examined whether there are trends and tendencies to strengthen or weaken the care/education component at the expense of the other. Grounded in local and national knowledge, the authors employed a cross-national collaborative inquiry approach and interrogated the notion of care while extrapolating its implications for the endeavour to design socially sustainable early childhood education. The results revealed that care has remained ingrained within policies in the minority world, while there is a tendency to view it as separate from education in the majority world. Although quantitative goals for early childhood education and care still dominate the majority world, the importance of care and sustainable development are present in all policy documents across the five nations. The authors concluded that strengthening these promising policy endeavours paves the way towards effective educare approaches, which lay the foundation for social sustainability in early childhood education.
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- Insulander, Eva, 1972-, et al.
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Sites for learning and knowledge representations : the Middle Ages
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: Designs for Research, Teaching and Learning. - London : Routledge. - 9781003096498 - 9780367561246 ; , s. 111-122
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, the focus is on knowledge representations in different sites of learning. We will give some examples of formal, semi-formal, and non-formal institutional framings, as well as of choices of representational resources—both in terms of designs for learning and play, and designs in learning. The knowledge area is the Middle Ages, a period which reappears in books, music, films, and games in late-modern contexts. This chapter is thereby also an example of learning outside and inside schools, and of how different institutional logics and choices of material resources affect which type of knowledge that is valued, and what is seen as signs of learning.
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Learning as social practice: Beyond education as an individual enterprise
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach. The book discusses four related approaches to learning which share a social perspective: social semiotics and multimodality; a design-theoretic approach to learning; a socio-cultural perspective; and a perspective of mimetic learning.
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- Lindstrand, Fredrik, 1973-, et al.
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Designs in learning and rhizomatic webs
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Ingår i: Designs for Research, Teaching and Learning. - London : Routledge. - 9781003096498 - 9780367561246 ; , s. 23-32
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter introduces the notion of designs in learning, which focuses on aspects regarding how learners (either individually or collectively) negotiate, make choices, and design their learning and representation of a phenomenon and of a knowledge area. Designs in learning can thus be seen as a way to approach issues regarding learners’ agency and performativity in learning contexts of various kinds. The chapter further contextualizes this aspect of learning by introducing the idea of rhizomatic webs as a metaphor for learning. A condition for being able to grasp learning as a performative act and the rhizomatic character of meaning-making is an openness in terms of what is recognized as valid representations of knowledge. We argue for the importance of recognizing a multitude of meaningful expressions in learning, introduced here as a capacity to embrace multimodal knowledge representations. The ideas presented in the chapter are exemplified with some glimpses of a collaborative process of filmmaking in a school context. In order to show how meaning-making evolves in the work to make representations in film, the chapter also introduces the notions of epistemological commitments of modes, transformation, and transduction.
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- MacKenzie, Alison, et al.
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Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching : a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020)
- 2022
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Ingår i: Postdigital Science and Education. - : Springer. - 2524-4868 .- 2524-485X. ; , s. 271-329
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a collective response to the 2020 iteration of The Manifesto for Teaching Online. Originally published in 2011 as 20 simple but provocative statements, the aim was, and continues to be, to critically challenge the normalization of education as techno-corporate enterprise and the failure to properly account for digital methods in teaching in Higher Education. The 2020 Manifesto continues in the same critically provocative fashion, and, as the response collected here demonstrates, its publication could not be timelier. Though the Manifesto was written before the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the responses gathered here inevitably reflect on the experiences of moving to digital, distant, online teaching under unprecedented conditions. As these contributions reveal, the challenges were many and varied, ranging from the positive, breakthrough opportunities that digital learning offered to many students, including the disabled, to the problematic, such as poor digital networks and access, and simple digital poverty. Regardless of the nature of each response, taken together, what they show is that The Manifesto for Teaching Online offers welcome insights into and practical advice on how to teach online, and creatively confront the supremacy of face-to-face teaching.
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De estetiska ämnenas didaktik : Utmaningar, processer och protester
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna antologi De estetiska ämnenas didaktik. Utmaningar, processere och protester vänder sig till alla som är intresserade av estetiska ämnen, skapande och lärande. Den riktar sig särskilt till verksamma lärare, blivande lärare och lärarutbildare i estetiska ämnen samt till forskare och forskarstuderande inom det estetiska fältet. Boken presenterar olika kritiska och nya granskande perspektiv på estetiska och konstnärliga lärprocesser genom texter om barn, elever, lärare och studenter i varierande skapande verksamheter och verkstäder. Texterna berör alltifrån förskola, grundskolans yngre och senare åldrar, gymnasiet och kulturskolan till universitetsutbildning och internationella jämförelser. I antologin diskuterar forskare, universitetslärare och erfarna pedagoger forskningsfrågor kring estetiska uttryck och ämnen, lärprocesser och reflektioner ur ett praktiknära perspektiv.Författarna är alla knutna till eller verksamma inom de estetiska ämnena vid institutionen för de Humanistiska och Samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik (HSD) på Stockholms universitet. Boken speglar universitetslärares olika forskningspraktiker, såsom forskning av professorer och lektorer, post-dok forskare och doktorander samt adjunkters FoU projekt. Antologin presenterar deras vetenskapliga studier och forskningsresultat av undervisning inom de estetiska ämnenas teori och praktik, undersökningar baserade på teoretisk och empirisk forskning som intervjuer, enkäter, observationer. Samtliga artiklar har genomgått en oberoende vetenskaplig granskningsprocess.
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- Olander, Clas, et al.
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Representations as mediation between purposes as junior secondary science students learn about the human body
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Science Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0950-0693 .- 1464-5289. ; 40:2, s. 204-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group The aim of this article is to investigate students’ meaning-making processes of multiple representations during a teaching sequence about the human body in lower secondary school. Two main influences are brought together to accomplish the analysis: on the one hand, theories on signs and representations as scaffoldings for learning and, on the other hand, pragmatist theories on how continuity between the purposes of different inquiry activities can be sustained. Data consist of 10 videotaped and transcribed lessons with 14-year-old students (N = 26) in Sweden. The analysis focused instances where meaning of representations was negotiated. Findings indicate that continuity is established in multiple ways, for example, as the use of metaphors articulated as an interlanguage expression that enables the students (and the teacher) to maintain the conversation and explain pressing issues in ways that support of the end-in-view of the immediate action. Continuity is also established between every day and scientific registers and between organisation levels as well as between the smaller parts and the whole system.
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