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- Gu, Limin, 1963-, et al.
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Hemma blir som skola : elevperspektiv på hemläxor
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Ingår i: Locus. - Stockholm : Institutionen för barn- och ungdomsvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet. - 1100-3197. ; :4, s. 50-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tidigare forskning har visat att det finns positiva samband mellan föräldrars aktiva engagemang i elevers skolarbete, skolprestationer samt skolbeteende. Inom detta forskningsfält är hemläxor ett område man fokuserar på för att närmare studera föräldrars involvering i sina barns skolgång. Denna studie inriktar sig på att belysa hur elever själva upplever att göra hemläxor och hur de ser på föräldrars involvering och stöd med hemläxor. Det centrala perspektivet i denna studie är att barn ska ses som medskapare och värda att lyssna till i den sociala kontexten som barnet verkar i. Dataunderlaget består av en enkätundersökning och fem gruppintervjuer med elever i år sex från fem kommunala grundskolor i en Norrländsk stad. Resultatet visar på att de flesta elever upplever att deras föräldrar brukar kontrollera och hjälpa till med hemläxor men eleverna saknar motivation till att göra hemläxor, beroende på att uppgifter som ges i hemläxor många gånger saknar utmaningar som utgår från deras individuella förutsättningar. Om skolan ska lyckas med att involvera föräldrar i skolarbete via hemläxor ställs skolan inför en viktig utmaning när det gäller vad, hur och varför hemläxor ges.
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- Kristoffersson, Margaretha, 1950-
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Lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis consists of a thesis for a Licentiate degree (Kristoffersson, 2002. Föräldrainflytande i grundskolan. En studie av nio lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan. [Parents involvement in compulsory school. A study of nine local boards with parents in majority in compulsory school]) and two articles (Kristoffersson, 2005. Parental involvement: Parents´ new role in Swedish schools; and Kristoffersson, 2007. The paradox of parental influence in Danish schools. A Swedish perspective). In this thesis my interest is particularly governance, management, communication and partnership. The research aimed comprehensively to describe the school boards and discuss the education policy behind the implementation of the boards. An additional aim were to see whose interests favoured in local school boards. I also wanted to study how comparative research in this case can be relevant to Swedish studies of local school boards. I used the frame factor theory, which aids the exploration of the correspondence relations between factors that affect local school boards. Governance and partnership are key concepts applied to the analysis of data. Critical analysis and discussions of these boards from a hermeneutic sign are included, which meant that I tried to understand the boards in their context. I used a case study method. Data were gathered through interviews, observations and analysis of documents (e.g., school board minutes). The results signify that different interests are not adequately balanced on the boards. Communication between the board and the parents not on the board was not satisfactory in many cases and such parents felt excluded from the board’s activity. The principal’s collaboration with the board’s chairperson was an important influence on the board. Evaluation, support and feedback of the board’s activity from the local school authority in the municipality were often neglected. The implementation of the boards related to the transferred welfare policy to more market-oriented political governance. The political governing of the school changed, and was influenced by neo-liberal trends where partnership had become the new prestige word. Parents are today seen as individual consumers in a market, whereas as board members they should make decisions that include all parents. Instead of increased parental influence in the schools, the effect of boards could be increased differences between pupils and between parents. This arose because parents are not a homogenous group. Social, cultural and economic conditions have an influence on parents’ activities. The state implementation of local school boards in Sweden and in many countries is, therefore, complex. This can be seen through the weak interest in the creation of boards, which also can be linked to the top-down character of the reform. This study is an example where global, national and local factors interact.
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- Kristoffersson, Margaretha, 1950-
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Parental involvement all the way through local school boards
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Ingår i: International Journal about Parents in Education. - : European Research Network about parents in Education (ERNAPE). - 1973-3518. ; 3:1, s. 37-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article comments on the development of school boards in Sweden. These boards are elected with parents in majority in compulsory schools. Data were gathered through interviews, observations and analysis of documents (e.g., school board minutes). The results indicate that different interests are not adequately balanced on the boards. Communication between the board and parents not on the board was unsatisfactory in many cases and such parents felt excluded from the board’s activity. The principal’s collaboration with the board’s chairperson was an important influence on the board. Evaluation, support and feedback from the local school authority were often neglected. These developments are linked to the transfer of welfare policy in Sweden and to the resultant market-oriented political governance. Partnership became the new prestige word. Parents are today seen as individual consumers in a market, yet if they become board members, they are expected to make decisions for all parents. Parental influence is increased in the schools, but the net effect may increase differences between pupils and between parents since the parents are never a homogenous group. The state implementation of local school boards in Sweden and in many countries is, therefore, complex and is reflected in the weak interest shown towards the top-down creation of boards.
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