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- Aldrin, Emilia, 1982-, et al.
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Högskolans språk och mitt eget. En studie av nyantagna lärarstudenters förhållningssätt till skrivande, skriftspråket på högskolan och den egna skrivkompetensen
- 2020
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Ingår i: Högre Utbildning. - Lund : Swednet. - 2000-7558. ; 10:1, s. 43-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how a heterogenous group of first year university students perceive writing in general, academic writing in specific, as well as their own writing proficiency. A questionnaire (n 93) was created basing on theories on academic literacy and writing psychology. The results show varying attitudes among the students which highlight questions of the dimensions of writing, identity and group affiliations. Gender was of little importance, whereas age and self-stated writing skills correlated to some extent with the results. The small scale of the study does not permit far-reaching conclusions, but the results indicate attitudes that could have importance for the development of academic literacy. The study can be used as a start of departure for interventions that facilitate for groups with different backgrounds to participate in higher education. ©2020 Emilia Sturm Aldrin, Monica Eklund och Heike Peter.
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- Cuesta, Marta, 1954-, et al.
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Innovative Pedagogical Methods in Higher Education
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to critically reflect about the results from a pilot study, in which Facebook was used as a co-learning community. A communicative tool or arena for discussing educational matters in order to facilitate for students with diverse backgrounds to reach better understanding on academic culture and knowledge production. In the pilot study we worked with a “consciousness-raising” pedagogy for encouraging and supporting students to cooperate with each other, and by the use of Facebook as a platform. The development of these pedagogical view and method can be seen as providing equal opportunities, by generating better results in higher education studies. The project is supposed to contribute to knowledge concerning more profound issues associated to ideas of democracy and empowerment connected to change and development in academic cultures. The central questions to be answered are: What means by “co-learning community” by Facebook? How does this tool stimulate students to be more confident and as a consequence, reach a better understanding about the ways into “break down” obstacles, in terms of academic cultural codes? How does it is expressed by the students in terms of benefit?
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- Cuesta, Marta, 1954-, et al.
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Using Facebook as a Co-learning Community in Higher Education
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Ingår i: Learning, Media & Technology. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1743-9884 .- 1743-9892. ; 41:1, s. 55-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Students’ cultural capital plays a major role in their success in higher education. In Sweden today, many students come from diverse cultural, social and educational backgrounds. Knowledge of requirements in academic systems differs widely. Some students feel insecure about how to interpret academic codes, thus weakening these students’ opportunities for academic success. The major goal of this project was to lay the groundwork for a more equal educational system. Using social media, in this case conversations (e.g., chats) in a closed forum on Facebook monitored by a tutor, we aimed to improve student integration into academic culture. We differentiated two central themes related to student conversations on Facebook: (1) Access to academic habitus – cracking codes and (2) Emancipation by co-learning – extended academic codes. It was found that students participating in study groups created on Facebook learnt to better crack and extend the codes extant in university studies. © 2015 Taylor & Francis
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- Eklund Karlsson, Leena, 1956-, et al.
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Salutogenesis and empowerment as prominent approaches for a sustainable health promotion : Some theoretical comparisons
- 2011
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Ingår i: Health Technology Assessment Society (HTAi). ; , s. 294-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Extensive evidence proposes Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory as a pathway to health promotion. The fundamental concept of salutogenesis is Sense of Coherence (SOC). Salutogenesis is defined as the process of movement towards the health-end of the health ease/dis-ease continuum. The aim of empowerment is to reduce inequity through a learning process and mobilize the uneducated for social action. Empowerment is defined as a process enabling the people to increase control over their health determinants. Empowerment still lacks a coherent theoretical basis. It is claimed that empowerment and SOC have much common and are sometimes overlapping. However, the relationship between these concepts has not been verified by research.Objectives: To compare the salutogenic theory with the empowerment concept and approach.Methods: Data consists of a worldwide systematic research synthesis (1992-2003) including 471 scientific publications and an on-going follow-up to 2010. The search was performed through PubMed, Libris, ISI, PsychInfo, Cinahl, Social Services Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts. The analysis was conducted by comparing selected indicators of both theories, such as approach, theoretical focus, definitions, orientation, key concepts, measurement instruments, outcomes and applicability.Findings: There are both similarities and differences between the concepts, which also somewhat overlap. Several unique and distinctive features for each concept were found. Salutogenesis is based on stress theories whereas empowerment has its roots in pedagogy and social psychology. Both concepts are process oriented. Empowerment can be seen as both means and an outcome whereas salutogenesis is a global life-orientation. Both concepts can be applied at the individual, group, health systems and societal levels. Both proved to be effective in promoting health. The two concepts differ when it comes to definitions and theoretical foundations.Conclusion: Both approaches are promising methods that can lead to improved health outcomes and are seen as viable public health strategies.
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- Eklund, Monica, 1956-, et al.
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Educational Integration of Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children in Sweden
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Ingår i: Migrants and Refugees. - Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing. - 9781623964665 - 9781623964672 - 9781623964689 ; , s. 73-93
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have undergone substantial cultural and social changes due to increased migration from the 1970s onwards. While the Nordic region has become more multicultural in terms of demography, workforces and cultural practices, criticism of multicultural politics has increased. Despite different patterns of immigration in the Nordic countries, they all seem to share growing political tensions with regard to multiculturalism and migration. Many migrants have experiences of racism and discrimination (Eide & Nikunen, 2010:1). In all Nordic countries, right-wing conservative parties have strengthened their position. In Norway and Denmark, such parties have for some time been represented in the Parliament, and in Sweden, the Sweden Democrats came into the Parliament after the 2010 election. This party has on its agenda to reduce the costs for migration and dramatically change the national migration policy. They blame the government for being too permissive and generous. It is against this background the present report is written.
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- Eklund, Monica, 1956-, et al.
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Homework for School : The Democratic Assignment
- 2006
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- America’s foremost educational philosopher, John Dewey, addressed the question “Why do schools exist” in his seminal work “Democracy and Education”. The title of his book reveals his answer to that question for societies “nominally democratic” but hisexcellent argument takes this answer from the realm of the prerogative to what seems to us to be its social imperative. Dewey sees education as a necessity of social life. “Without this communication of ideas, hopes, expectations, standards, opinions, from those members of society who are passing out of the group life to those who are coming into it, social life could not survive” (Dewey, 1996/1916, p. 3).Most of the education writers who have addressed the broad purposes for schooling have arrivedwith Dewey at the conclusion that “...democracy is the most important among all the possible philosophical and political sources from which public school purpose can be derived” (Raywid, Tesconi & Warren, 1987, p. 16). We are persuaded that the term democracy –though subject to varied definitions and perceptions –best embodies the collected concepts, beliefs, and values of modern western culture that should comprise the processes and content of compulsory public schooling. We wonder, however, how much ofthe imperative of schooling for democracy actually resides in the conscious deliberations and intentional activities of educational practitioners.We are currently in the formative stages of an international research collaboration designed to observe schools in a number of European and North American communities to inquire into the perceives purposes and the actual practices of these schools in relation to democracy. We are interested in the convergence of the democratic intention and the practice of democracy in schools –society’s most important institution for social transmission. We have been encouraged by the Swedish curriculum for the compulsory school in which democratic assignment is a national objective. This goal embraces the importance of the practice of democracy in schools and classrooms and we think it encourages Swedish schools (municipalities are responsible for schools in Sweden) to go beyond teaching about democracy to become institutions of a fully participatory nature. We think this democratic assignment is crucially important to increased realization of participatory democracy in centuries old political democracies of North America and Western Europe and vital to the transition of former eastern bloc countries.Our research project is conceived as a qualitative inquiry into the perceptions of educators (principally school leaders, classroom teachers and teacher students) relative to the ideals of the democratic assignment.We will use both survey and interview methodologies in uncovering perceptions. In addition, we will use participant observation strategies in selected schools and classrooms to explore the application of stated principles to observed practices in schools and classrooms. We hope to conduct our research in severalcompulsory schools in different communities in each of the participating counties (United States, France, Sweden, United Kingdom and maybe also the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania).Our intention is not to draw generalizable conclusions about schools or school systems in participant countries, but rather to better understand the relationship between intention and practice in selected environments. We hope our research will enable educators to look at their own schools in light of the democratic assignment in an effort to improve practices leading to more democratic schools and eventually more democratic, just, and peaceful societies.
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- Eklund, Monica, 1956-, et al.
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Looking at Democratic Intention and the Experienced Curriculum : Examples from Swedish and American Schools and Classrooms
- 2009
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Ingår i: [Abstract Book]. ; , s. 43-43
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the Nordic countries and in most western democracies, including the United States, there is a long and strong tradition of teaching aboutdemocracy. The “democratic assignment” for teachers and school leaders in the Swedish schools goes further than teaching about democracy. The Swedish intension is to encourage schools to become democratic organizations with students, teachers, school leaders and others in the school as participating members. We are interested in the relationship between the intention for and experience of democracy in schools. Our theoretical framework is an historical one emphasizing the importance of participatory democracy in school. America’s foremost educational philosopher, John Dewey, sees education as a necessity of social life (Dewey, 1996/1916). Most of the education writers who have addressed the broad purposes for schooling have arrived with Dewey at the conclusion that “...democracy is the most important among all the possible philosophical and political sources from which public school purpose can be derived” (Raywid, Tesconi & Warren, 1987, p. 16). We are persuaded that the term democracy – though subject to varied definitions and perceptions – best embodies the collected concepts, beliefs, and values of modern western culture that should comprise the processes and content of compulsory public schooling. We wonder, however, how much of the imperative of schooling for democracy actually resides in the conscious deliberations and intentional activities of educational practitioners. Furthermore, we are interested in the day-to-day experiences of students and teachers in relation to “participatory democracy”. Our research project is a qualitative inquiry into the perceptions of educators (school leaders, classroom teachers, and students) relative to the ideals of participatory democracy and an ethnographic description of student and teacher class experiences in selected schools and classrooms in the U.S. and Sweden. We use interview methodologies to uncover perceptions and participant observation methods to explore classroom experiences. Our intention is not to draw general conclusions about or make specific comparisons among schools or school systems in participant countries, but rather to try to better understand the relationship between intention and experience in selected environments. We hope our research will enable educators to look at their own schools in light of the democratic assignment in an effort to improve practices leading to more democratic schools and eventually more democratic, just, and peaceful societies. We think our research is relevant today because developing the scientific knowledge base of education in the Nordic countries is not a process going on in isolation from researchers from other countries. We have found that the cooperation between one researcher from Sweden and another from the United States can bring improved perspectives and deeper understanding of schools, their purpose, and the experiences those schools provide for all their constituents.
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