| 1. |
- Burström, Lage, 1954-, et al.
(författare)
-
Acute effects of vibration on thermal perception thresholds
- 2006
-
Ingår i: Diagnosis of injuries caused by hand-transmitted vibration - 2nd International workshop, Göteborg, 2006. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective This study focuses on the acute effects of vibration and how vibrations influence the measures of the thermal perception thresholds during different vibration magnitudes, frequencies, and durations.Methods The fingers of ten healthy subjects, five males and five females, were exposed to vibration under 16 conditions with a combination of different frequency, intensity and exposure time. The vibration frequency was 31.5 and 125 Hz and exposure lasted between 2 and 16 min. The energy-equivalent frequency weighted acceleration, according to ISO 5349-1, for the experimental time of 16 min was 2.5 or 5.0 m/s(2) (r.m.s.), corresponding to a 8-h equivalent acceleration, A(8) of 0.46 and 0.92 m/s(2), respectively. A measure of the thermal perception of cold and warmth was conducted before the different exposures to vibration. Immediately after the vibration exposure the acute effect was measured continuously on the exposed index finger for the first 75 s, followed by 30 s of measures at every minute for a maximum of 10 min. If the subject's thermal thresholds had not recovered, the measures continued for a maximum of 30 min with measurements taken every 5 min.Results For all experimental conditions and 30 s after exposure, the mean changes of the thresholds compared with the pre-test were found to be 0.05 and -0.67C for the warmth and cold thresholds, respectively. The effect of the vibration exposure was only significant on the cold threshold and only for the first minute after exposure when the threshold was decreased. The warmth threshold was not significantly affected at all. The frequency and the exposure time of the vibration stimuli had no significant influence on the perception thresholds for the sensation of cold or warmth. Increased equivalent frequency weighted acceleration resulted in a significant decrease of the subjects' cold threshold, not the warmth. The thresholds were unaffected when changes in the vibration magnitude were expressed as the frequency weighted acceleration or the unweighted acceleration.Conclusion When testing for the thermotactile thresholds, exposure to vibration on the day of a test might influence the results. Until further knowledge is obtained the previous praxis of 2 h avoidance of vibration exposure before assessment is recommended.
|
|
| 2. |
|
|
| 3. |
- Cronhjort, Mikael, et al.
(författare)
-
Leadership and Pedagogical Skills in Computer Science Engineering by Combining a Degree in Engineering with a Degree in Education
- 2020
-
Ingår i: 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). - : IEEE. - 0190-5848. - 9781728189611 ; , s. 1-9
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this full paper on innovative practice, we describe and discuss findings from dual degree study programmes that combine a master's degree in engineering with a master's degree in education. This innovative study programme design has emerged in Sweden due to an alarming demand for more Upper Secondary School teachers in STEM subjects. Studies on alumni from these programmes indicate that the graduates are highly appreciated not only as teachers in schools, but also in business and industry, e.g. in roles as IT consultants and computer science engineers. Data indicate that the breadth of the combined education, and especially leadership and pedagogical skills, are important factors for these graduates' success as engineers.
|
|
| 4. |
- Magnusson, Lena O, 1963-
(författare)
-
Aesthetic aspects and photographic consequences in young children's use of digital cameras in preschool
- 2016
-
Ingår i: IVSA 2016. June 22-24, Lillehammer, Norway. Faculty of Social Science at Lillehammer University College..
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Imagine that a group of thee year olds get access to digital cameras in a pre-school context without the guidance or the supervisions of teachers. What could happen? What will happen? What characterizes their photographic and digital practice? Do they express aesthetic preferences and how do they address the pre-school environment together with the gaze of the camera? When the teachers photograph children in pre-school it is often based on a documentary intention (Magnusson 2014; Svenning 2011). But children in pre-school do not use cameras in the same way as adults; they use them in a variety of other ways and with other strategies. The goal of this presentation is to highlight some possible aesthetic aspects of young children's camera usage. The visual material presented is part of an ethnographic study in an on-going thesis work focused on young children, photography and digital cameras. By taking the theoretical point of entry with new materialism and in particular together with Karen Barad (2003, 2007, 2010) and her agential realism, I understand the children's use of digital cameras as intra-active, mutual events where digital cameras, the preschool as much as the children are active participants in what is happening. The results presented and discussed here are preliminary and exploratory and they are based on empirical data from an on-going study.
|
|
| 5. |
- Magnusson, Lena O, 1963-
(författare)
-
Aesthetic expression and democratic voices - three year olds and digital cameras
- 2017
-
Ingår i: InSEA 2017, 35th World Congress of the Int’l Society for Education through Art. Spirit, Art, Digital, August 7-11, 2017, EXCO, Daegu, Korea..
-
Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This presentation is based on a specific aspect of my on-going dissertation work. It focuses on the relationship between democracy and aesthetic expression in a Swedish preschool context, more specifically how photography as an aesthetic option in young children's hands can help to demonstrate democratic aspects of children's lives. On the basis of this focus, the presentation also highlights questions about children´s perspective, visual literacy (Elkins, 2008) and popular culture references with a starting point in the children's photographs and their photographic intra-actions (Barad, 2007). The research that takes part in the dissertation is based on a minor ethnographic study conducted in two different preschool settings together with tree year olds. The children have been offered a hands-on access to digital cameras in everyday activities. Any rules or specific issues have not accompanied the handover of the cameras, rather the children have been invited to use the camera in response to my question: What can you do with the camera and your preschool environment? As the children involved in the production of research material has not been instructed in how and to what they are supposed to use the cameras, they have had the opportunity to explore, investigate and they got to be mutual camera users. Children learned to see with the cameras and the cameras learned to see with the children. The framing capacity of digital cameras allowed children to see new and changed aspects of the world, and they studied and developed a changing visual sharpness. The children also contribute to changing ways of using cameras, which can teach both adults and other children something about cameras and their possibilities as ethical, photographic, democratic and aesthetic tools. Barad, Karen Michelle (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, N.C.: Duke University PressElkins, James (red.) (2008). Visual literacy. New York: Routledge
|
|
| 6. |
- Bengtsdotter Katz, Viktoria, 1960, et al.
(författare)
-
Kursutveckling för att stötta lärarstudenters kommunikativa förmåga
- 2016
-
Ingår i: NU2016.
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Utgångspunkten i detta abstract är att beskriva processen och resultatet i ett pågående utvecklingsarbete riktat mot att utveckla studenters kommunikativa förmågor inom Grundlärarprogrammet vid Göteborgs universitet. Studenters kommunikativa förmågor är en levande fråga i Grundlärarprogrammets tre inriktningar vilket också betonas i examensmålet ”studenten ska visa kommunikativ förmåga i lyssnande, talande och skrivande till stöd för den pedagogiska verksamheten”. De blivande lärarna behöver därför utveckla språkliga repertoarer för att möta elever, föräldrar och kollegor. De ska också förberedas för att skriva vetenskaplig text. Många av programmets studenter har emellertid liten eller ingen erfarenhet av akademiska studier och akademiskt språk och en del av dessa har även svårigheter med att genomföra sin utbildning. Studenterna behöver därför stödjas i syfte att utveckla såväl sina språkliga repertoarer som att författa vetenskapliga texter. En arbetsgrupp bestående av kursledare, språkhandledare och studeranderepresentant fick i uppdrag att, utifrån examensmålet ovan, skapa en progression som kan bidra till utveckling av studenternas kommunikativa kompetenser mellan de olika kurserna under de två första två terminerna i lärarutbildningen. I syfte att studera hur den befintliga progressionen såg ut analyserades länkningen mellan lärandemål och examinationer samt progressionen inom och mellan de två första (olika?) kurserna på utbildningen. I detta arbete, där framförallt Blooms taxonomi men i viss mån även SOLO-taxonomin (Biggs & Tang, 2011) användes, analyserades först kursplanernas lärandemål genom att lärandemålens aktiva verb identifierades. Därefter analyserades de muntliga och skriftliga uppgifter samt examinationer som studenterna enligt kursguiderna skulle arbeta med under kurserna. Språkhandlingarna i uppgiftsformuleringarna identifierades, men även olika typer av stöttande strukturer och modaliteter undersöktes. Med modaliteter avses de olika förhållningssätt till en text som studenten förväntas visa såsom skriftligt, muntligt och/eller gestaltande. Analysen visade att länkningen mellan lärandemålens aktiva verb, språkhandlingarna, och det som studenterna får öva på och utföra i olika typer av aktiviteter inte alltid stämmer överens. Utifrån analysen blev det viktigt att uppmärksamma de olika kursernas kursledare på hur examinationsuppgifternas anvisningar, i form av språkhandlingar, skulle kunna tydliggöras för att studenterna lättare ska förstå innehållet i de muntliga och skriftliga uppgifter de förväntas utföra. Inför samtalen med kursledarna användes matriser där olika språkhandlingar i kursuppgifter och kursmål synliggjordes. Matriserna visade vilka olika texttyper, såsom rapporter, argumenterande texter och beskrivande texter som studenterna förväntades skriva i kursen. Matriserna visade också vilka modaliteter som efterfrågades i examinationerna. Utifrån matriserna blev det då möjligt att tillsammans med kursledarna studera, diskutera och förändra progressionen mellan kurserna med avseende på de språkhandlingar som ingår. Slutligen diskuterades även progressionen beträffande studenternas kompetens i referenshantering med målet att de ska kunna bemästra detta efter första årets kurser inom lärarutbildningen. Referens: Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (2011). Teaching for Quality Learning at University: What the Student Does. New York: Open University Press.
|
|
| 7. |
- Elde Mølstad, Christina, et al.
(författare)
-
Comparative reasoning: curriculum making in the 'grey zone
- 2017
-
Ingår i: The 45th Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), 23-25 March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
-
Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Curriculum making concerns the possibility to decide and prescribe purposes, aims, and contents of schooling, but also how these purposes, aims and contents are legitimized. As such, we see curriculum making from the ‘wide’ interpretation of curriculum. We are in relation to curriculum making especially interested in investigating how some important international actors interact with educational purposes, aims, and contents on a world scale level affecting national level, as well as the very local of educational activities. Hence we are interested in investigating curriculum formulation based on comparative statistical reasoning. The actors we are most interested in are those that have been characterized as ‘grey zone’ actors (Lindblad, Pettersson & Popkewitz, 2015). The idea (and term) of the ‘grey zone’ emerged from a previous review of research and organizations using data from international largeVscale assessments (ILSA) (Lindblad et al., 2015) for comparing education systems. These ‘grey zone’ actors have only at best an indirect mandate in education systems, however they still make explicit statements on how to improve schooling and students’ performances; i.e. a form of curriculum making. It is the indirect mandate combined with relatively strong impact on the governing of education that place these actors in the ‘grey zone’. There are at least three important actors that stood out in terms of activities spread to a world scale level; the McKinsey, the OECD and the Pearson Company, which all have arisen as important nodes for knowledge on what education is perceived as and maybe more importantly, should be. Their position within education is further reinforced by the comparative and data driven aspects of the contemporary society (cf. Pettersson, Popkewitz & Lindblad, 2016). We examine, three, what we call ‘grey zone’ activities involved in curriculum formulation and how a specific reasoning (cf. Hacking, 1992) is used and evolves in these activities: i) the McKinsey producing international reports on educational improvements and developments. Within the terminology of McKinsey recommendations are produced for these purposes: ii) the OECD not only producing ILSA and recommendations, but also producing newsletters where the results of ILSA are mediated and communicated to policy, research and practice: iii) the Pearson Company not only the winner of the open tender to perform PISA 2018, but also the producer of a vast amount of websites for school development within the frameworks of The Learning Curve (TLC) and The Efficacy Framework as well as producing school textbooks. Hence we investigate how these activities frame education defining what content curriculum making should focus on and as such making prerequisites on what education is and should be perceived as. All three of these agencies can be discussed in terms of producing activities important for curriculum making in the ‘wider’ sense of the concept. By analyzing products by the agencies we are in a position to highlight them as important sites for curriculum making on an international level. In our study we especially highlight these products in terms of producing a specific reasoning about education, which creates narratives framing curriculum making on a national as well as on a local school level
|
|
| 8. |
- Gustafsson,, Jan, et al.
(författare)
-
Fritidspedagog/lärare i fritidshem – en profession i ständig rörelse
- 2018
-
Ingår i: Forskning pågår, 31 oktober, 2018. Göteborgs Universitet.
-
Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lärare i fritidshem/fritids som profession har svårt att formulera sitt eget kunskapsfält vilket enligt professionsteorin krävs för att tydliggöra professionens egen logik (Brante, 2014). Syftet med föreliggande studie är att beskriva och undersöka lärare i fritidshem professionsutveckling och logik mellan 1880-talet och 2017. Metod Metoden är diskursanalys (Fairclough, 2013) av policydokument, historiska texter och tidigare forskning i syfte att identifiera och beskriva de diskurser som strukturerar professionens kunskapsfält och logik mellan 1880-talet och 2017. Teoretisk inramning Teoretiskt utgår studien från professionsteori (Brante, 2014) och en framträdande roll i vår analys har de analytiska begreppen ontologisk modell och professionslogik. Förväntade slutsatser En preliminär analys visar att professionen mellan 1880-talet och 2017 har varit i ständig rörelse och arbetet inom ramen för fem olika ontologiska modeller baserade på olika professionslogiker. De ontologiska modellerna är Arbetsstugan ca (1887–1940), Eftermiddagshemmet (1940–1960), det Fristående fritidshemmet (1960-1985), det Integrerade fritidshemmet (1985-2008) och det Didaktiska fritidshemmet (2008 - ). Dessa fem ontologiska modeller finns representerade i både lärarutbildning och fritidshemmets verksamhet vilket kan vara en förklaring till professionens svårighet att definiera ett tydligt kunskapsfält. Relevans för pedagogiskt arbete Studien och analysen har stor relevans för både lärarutbildning och pedagogiskt arbete i fritidshem. För verksamma lärare i fritidshem är det av stor vikt att vara medveten om att professionen i sin praktik använder sig av olika ontologiska modeller och logiker. Likaså bör detta bli ett innehåll i lärarutbildningen och kan ses som ett led i att stärka och tydliggöra professionens kunskapsfält.
|
|
| 9. |
- Gustafsson, Jan, 1960, et al.
(författare)
-
Lärare i Fritidshem - en profession i ständig rörelse
- 2017
-
Ingår i: Nationell konferens i Pedagogiskt arbete 14-15 augusti, Göteborg 2017.. - : Nationell konferens i Pedagogiskt arbete 14-15 augusti, Göteborg 2017..
-
Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
|
|
| 10. |
- Haglund, Björn, 1962, et al.
(författare)
-
To research the leisure-time centre
- 2010
-
Ingår i: ISA, 100713, Göteborg. ; , s. 187-188
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper highlights a method that is supposed to describe, above all, children’s social and discursive practice in Swedish leisure-time centres. A leisure-time centre provides activities, before, during and after school, directed to children between six and twelve years old. This institution is close connected to primary school, staffed with university-educated pedagogues and supposed to give children a meaningful leisure. What meaningful leisure comprises is, however, not clearly defined in the Swedish curriculum (cf. Haglund, 2009, Klerfelt, 2007). Our theoretical point of departure origins from a social constructionist perspective, which emphasizes that reality is constructed by people who interact (Berger and Luckmann, 1966). Within this theoretical perspective a meaningful leisure in leisure-time centres is mutually constructed by staff and children in their everyday practice (cf. Fairclough and Wodak, 1997). There is a need to develop methodological tools to study how a meaningful leisure practice, defined and constituted by children and leisure-time pedagogues, could be explored. We investigate methods that make children’s perspectives visible and reflect the pedagogues’ intentions with their work. The data production consists of narrative interviews, ”walk-and-talk”-conversations and artefacts that highlight the social practice (cf. Mischler, 1986; Beach 2005). As this is a work-in-progress analysis will be carried out during fall 2010. The concluding discussion describes methodological and ethical aspects concerning the accomplished study.
|
|
