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- Forslund, Kenneth, 1948-, et al.
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Lärares professionella utveckling
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main part of this report, based on interwievs and classroom observations, concentrates on three fundamental issues. The first two deals with descriptions of the theoretical base for teachers´s professional practice and the methodological solutions the teachers choose in their work. The third issue focuses on the techers´ work with their own professional development. In a concluding part, a descrition and an anaysis is made concerning the teachers´professional development in a long term perspective, and further possibilities for professional development is discussed.
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- Eriksson-Gustavsson, Anna-Lena, 1949-
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Att läsa : -ett behov, -ett krav, -en nödvändighet : en analys av den första internationellt jämförande studien av vuxnas förmåga att förstå och använda skriftlig information : International Adult Literacy Survey = [Reading] : [-a need, a requirement, a necessity]
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a presentation and an analysis of the International Adult Literacy Survey, IALS, the first international comparative study of reading ability and reading habits among adults. The study was carried out in seven countries in Europe and North America during 1994 och 1995. It was conducted by Statistics Canada, in cooperation with Educational Testing Service in USA, and OECD in Paris, France. The aim was to bring to a focus the relations between individuals' reading ability, educational level and occupation, and economic growth and development in society. A second aim was to identify groups of individuals who may suffer, socially as well as economically, because of a low level of reading ability.The National Agency for Education was responsible for the Swedish participation in the study. A representative sample of the population, 16 years of age and older, have taken part in the study, which was conducted by means of interviews and objective tests of reading ability.The results demonstrate that there are substantial differences in reading ability among the population both within the country and in comparison with other countries. Education lays the ground for the development of reading ability, but work-related reading and leisure reading both have an impact on further development of the ability.In analysing the Swedish data focus has been on three variables, education, reading ability and reading habits. Individuals with a high educational level demonstrated better reading ability and more frequent reading activities. both at work and in leisure, than did individuals with a lower educational level. Individuals with higher education read more books, visited a library more often and read much more in relation to work than did individuals with lower education.According to the IALS survey, however, approximately one third of the Swedish 16+ population did not reach the level of reading ability that is set in the national curriculum (Lpo 94) as a goal for the end of grade 9 in the Swedish compulsory school.This thesis also contains a pilot study, the aim of which is to test a method of researching adults' reading habits in depth. In the pilot study data were collected by means of reading-diaries. From the diaries it appeared that the time individuals reserved for reading during week days increased substantially from the lowest to the highest level of education. It was the time spent with reading in relation to work that made all the difference. It was also evident that the variation of reading materials was much larger for individuals with a high educational level than for those with a low educational level.The opportunities and possibilities for adults to improve their reading ability vary a great deal. There is every reason to emphasize the need for increased opportunities of recurrent education, in order to avoid a wider and deeper gap between individuals with high and low levels of reading ability. Further research about the context and requirements of adult reading in the future society is also needed.
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- Forslund, Kenneth, 1948-, et al.
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Professionell kompetens hos pedagoger inom förskolan : en studie av kompetens i en arbetsgrupp som arbetar med gruppintegration av funktionshindrade barn
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A research project concerning professional behaviour and development has been conducted with professional staff in kindergarten working with group integration of handicapped children. This report, based on a modified survey-study generated from a model describing professioanal competence (Forslund, 1993). In the results, the personell describes their own concept of their professional competence in terms of goals, ethics, theoretical base, set of methods, decision-making and evaluation and also gives their opinions of factors hindering and facilitating a high quality professional work.
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- Paldanius, Sam, 1962-
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Delaktighet, demokrati och organisationsförändring i skilda verkligheter : en kritisk ansats
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate the meaning and use of the concept of participation in a municipal process of organizational change in the early 1990-s. The aim of the organizational change was to reform the' entire public administration in Sweden in to management by objectives (millstyrning). The main question in this study is to sort out what kind of ideological content the concept of participation is carrying in two settings, the literature about management of objectives and its manifestation in the municipal organizational change. This thesis is based on two different studies, one theoretical study and one empirical phenomenographic study. The theoretical study investigates the meaning of the concept of participation in earlier research and its relations to other contextually important concepts such as democracy, management by objectives, effectiveness and also different theories of democracy. This study reveals that management by objectives is to be understood as carrying neoliberalistic ideology in its conception of participation. The empirical study originally aimed to try to describe conceptions of participation among employees in the process of municipal organizational change. In this thesis the results and data is reanalyzed with critical theory and consequently this thesis is primarily theoretical. The critical perspective put to use in this study is constructed from critical theory (Frankfurt school) and especially Jürgen Habermas. This thesis also discusses different conceptions of participation derived from an interpretative process between Habermas communicative action theory and empirical results from the phenomenographic study. The results shows that the commonly used definition of participation in research literature, referred to as participation in decision making (PDM), in it self creates hierarchy and conceal another important conception of participation, namely the horizontal participation. Hierarchical participation can be understood as originating from horizontal participation and vice versa in an organization.In sum this thesis outlines a few interesting results about the ideological meaning of participation in organizational structures and it suggest a conceptual framework of vertical and horizontal participation as a means to give a new set of possible and reasonable interpretations on the phenomenon of participation.
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