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- Hansson, Linnea, et al.
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Soil temperature and water content dynamics after disc trenching a sub-xeric Scots pine clearcut in central Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Geoderma. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7061 .- 1872-6259. ; 327, s. 85-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Soil scarification is widely used in boreal forestry to promote the growth and survival of seedlings. The aim of the study was to describe and analyze the impact of disc trenching on soil temperature and water content dynamics during the first six growing seasons after clearcutting. The site is a sub-xeric, coarse textured, coniferous field experiment, near Hagfors, central Sweden. Soil temperature and water content were measured hourly both 20 and 45 cm below the original surface of the mineral soil in three types of microsites created by disc trenching (furrows, ridges, and between-furrow areas) and an undisturbed control microsite outside the disc-trenched area. Pinus sylvestris L. seedlings were planted in the furrows and the control area before the measurements. The soil temperature and water content data were analyzed using linear mixed-effect models. Numbers of days exceeding critical thresholds of soil temperature and water content for seedling growth at each microsite were also calculated. Disc trenching increased soil temperature in the topsoil (<20 cm) of the furrows throughout the study period, but the effect declined over time. Similar, but weaker, effects were detected in ridges and between-furrows areas. Likewise, the largest daily and seasonal temperature amplitudes at 20 cm depth were recorded beneath the furrows, and the soil temperature sums (baseline 5 °C) over the whole study period were 20% higher in these microsites than in the control area. Soil temperatures never exceeded values considered optimal for root growth at any of the microsites. The soil water content in the furrows and control area only significantly differed during the last three years, when it was somewhat higher beneath the furrows. During the study period, the total number of days with potential water stress for the planted seedlings (volumetric soil water content <0.09 m3/m3) was 423 in the furrows compared to 554 in the control area. None of the microsites was wet enough to hamper aeration of roots in the topsoil. In conclusion, soil temperature and water regimes were more favorable for the seedlings in the furrows than in the control area for at least six growing seasons. We recommend planting soon after disc trenching to maximize benefits from the improved soil temperature conditions in the furrows. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
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- Kristén, Lars, 1956-, et al.
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Co-developing inclusive tools in Physical Education (PE) for all pupils in school
- 2019
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Ingår i: HEPA Europe, 28-30 August 2019, Odense, Denmark. - Odense. ; , s. 95-95
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose was to test and evaluate a prototype from a child’s perspective, with the specific aim to investigate how participation, inclusion, learning are expressed in the use and development of various new sports tools in the subject of PE at three schools in southwest Sweden. Development of inclusive tools for PE is often conducted without involving children as co-developers or viewing education as consisting of a heterogenous target groups, such as children with disabilities. The study is a part of a larger project on innovations from a norm-critical perspective on tools for PE with children both with and without disabilities and companies as co-producers.Methods: The study uses qualitative methods such as interviews, films and participant observations with an intervention approach. The study was carried out at 3 elementary schools in south-west Sweden with approximately 15-20 children with and without disabilities, a total of about 60 children aged between 10 and 15.Results: The results show that participation and inclusion play an important role developing and using tools in PE. The study also suggests that participation and inclusion may enhance learning, within the development and creative use in classes where challenges and obstacles were necessary to be dealt with by the children.Conclusions: The children gave development proposals and different perspectives on inclusion. Teachers need also some tools to guide the students how to reflect on different actions in PE for all. The students was given an opportunity to reflect about training and norms, and these discussions gave us important knowledge about their needs. The childrens voices were important for researchers and entrepreneurs to develop the ability to think in new ways. Belonging and togetherness among pupils and teachers during PE lessons contributed to adapting the PE material to everyone's needs and conditions.
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- Kristén, Lars, 1956-, et al.
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SwingPingis ‒ An innovative and norm critical physical activity aid for everyone, everywhere
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity. - Olomouk : European Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (EUFAPA). - 1803-3857. ; 12:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many children with disabilities face the risk of illness by being excluded from physical education. The purpose of this article is to investigate an open collaborative innovation that can contribute to more inclusive elements in physical education, resulting in a better quality of education for children and youths with a disability. The question asked here is whether performative, bodily, geographical, norm critical and collaborative aspects involved in the use of an innovative aid called Swing Table Tennis (SwingPingis), has any impact on teachers’ perception of inclusion and well-being for the children using the innovation. The methods used in this study are interviews of children with disabilities and their physical education teachers, combined with participant observations carried out during classes using the tool. The findings indicate children and teachers perceive the tool as a means to an embodied, creative part of collaboration and involvement during the lesson, as well as in the teaching of the subject Physical Education. Children perceived SwingPingis as an opportunity to get motor training and build bodily capacities to perform, which in turn were reported as a feeling of the joy in movement. Teachers emphasize SwingPingis usefulness and accessibility. It is an asset in teaching as well as enabling and complementing other motor training in teaching.
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- Kristén, Lars, 1956-, et al.
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The co-development of inclusive tools in physical education for pupils with and without disabilities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sport in Society. - Abingdon : Informa UK Limited. - 1743-0437 .- 1743-0445. ; 25:5, s. 1000-1016
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of inclusive tools for Physical Education (PE) is often conducted without involving children as co-developers or viewing education as consisting of heterogeneous target groups, not as individuals with different needs, such as disability. This study forms part of a larger project on innovations from a norm-critical perspective on tools for PE with children and companies as co-producers. The particular focus of this study is to test and evaluate a prototype from a child’s perspective, with the specific aim of investigating how participation, inclusion and learning are described in the use and development of a new sports tool in the subject of PE at three schools in Halland, Sweden. The study uses qualitative methods such as interviews, films and participant observations using an intervention approach. The results of the study show that participation and inclusion play an important role in developing and using tools in PE. The study also suggests that participation and inclusion may enhance learning in the development and creative use in classes in which it was necessary for the children to manage challenges and obstacles.
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- Magnusson, Patrik, 1972-
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Geografilärares ämnesförståelse : Ämnesdidaktiska berättelser som reflektionsarena skapar kunskap om skolans geografi
- 2023
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kunskaper om och perspektiv på skolämnet geografi är viktiga när relationen mellan lärare och ämne sätt i fokus, särskilt om lärares ämnesspecifika förståelse betraktas som bärande för hur geografiämnet blir till i skolan.Syftet med denna studie är att utforska hur geografilärares ämnesspecifika förståelse kommer till uttryck och kan förstås när lärare själva får reflektera över ämnet och undervisningen. Resultaten visar på en bred variation i hur lärare förstår och resonerar om det egna ämnet. Analysen uppvisar skillnader i hur denna förståelse kan tolkas där två av fynden rör hur vardagens geografier inkluderas samt geografiämnets roll som beredskapsämne. Till det förs en diskussion om det ömsesidiga beroendeförhållandet mellan vad lärare upplever som möjligt och tillåtet, den kapacitet de har att agera, samt geografilärarens roll som medskapare av ämnet.
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- Ring, Mikael, 1962-
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En omvärldsanalys med utgångspunkt från att starta ett nytt utbildningsprogram
- 2017
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Följande rapport utgör en bilaga till en ansökan om att starta ett nytt utbildningsprogram vid Högskolan i Halmstad. Analysen har till viss del använts i den faktiska ansökan och programutveckling vid Akademin för Lärande, Humaniora och Samhällsvetenskap. Avsikten är att publicera denna omvärldsanalys av det skälet att det kan finnas delar i omvärldsanalysen som kan användas av andra aktörer i regionen, och för andra syften och därför fanns det anledning att göra den tillgänglig via DIVA och Högskolans bibliotek. Dessa resonemang handlar om attraktionskrafter och pendling för studier och arbetsmarknad, samt drivkrafter för högre studier ur ett rumsligt perspektiv.
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- Ring, Mikael, 1962, et al.
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Exploring Virtual Management and HRM in Thin Organizational Places During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2023
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Ingår i: Virtual Management and the New Normal. New Perspectives on HRM and Leadership since the COVID-19 Pandemic. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031068126 ; , s. 99-118
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The conditions for work from home (WFH) changed radically during the pandemic. WFH during this period comprised social, spatial, and identity-based issues that work at once on both the individual subjective-, and the organizational levels. The aim of this study is to investigate some of the consequences of WFH aspects of thickness and thinness in the work environment when work shifts from the workplace to home. The research questions are ‘How do managers in public and private organizations describe how aspects of thickness, in terms of physical proximity and social relations changed when their staff worked from home during the pandemic; and how can organizational thickness and thinness be further developed to understand the detachment of workers from their working places? The study shows that the organizations studied have been innovative by adjusting and developing strategies for coping with long periods of absence from offices, and that thick places can be created with the help of technology. Finally, the study shows that the pandemic may have future consequences in terms of how work is organized and how technology can be used to complement or substitute for work at working offices but also how large office spaces are needed and where these offices should be located.
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- Ring, Mikael, 1962, et al.
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Just energy transitions? Energy policy and the adoption of clean energy technology by households in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 91:September, s. 1-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Nordic countries, including Sweden, are often considered to be at the forefront of the drive to introduce sustainable energy technology, including at the household level, as part of the transition to sustainable societies. For a transition to become reality, all groups of society have to be part of it, and the social sciences have a role in investigating the conditions for these groups to be involved. The extent to which diverse (including marginalised) communities and households are part of this transition and have equitable access to the relevant technologies, including smart technologies, and the degree to which the transition is a shared value and aspiration is still unclear. We want to explore what steps are being taken in Sweden to incorporate these groups in planning and technology access, and to what extent this is supported by a range of entities, from the Swedish Energy Agency to grassroots organizations, with a particular focus on social, gender and migrant perspectives. Our preliminary evaluation of Swedish energy policy documents indicates that, while social justice and gender considerations are acknowledged, little funding is actually allocated towards social science covering these areas. Moreover, there is no mention of ethnic equality or the inclusion of migrant communities in the documents that we reviewed. With this Perspective we highlight the need for further research to develop a more nuanced understanding of the different narratives embedded in household sustainable energy usage and decision-making around the adoption of sustainable energy technologies at the household level.
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- Ring, Mikael, 1962-, et al.
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Norms and materialities in Physical Education and Health : - ”I feel that I cannot contribute enough in sport”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 24:4, s. 349-360
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many understandings about norms and norm criticism are based on imaginations of inclusion and exclusion, as if values about right and wrong, and acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors belong to a world of relations that can be separated from embodied and physical things and practices. Norm confirming or norm critical imaginations are difficult to judge and even more difficult to change if they are separated from the physical performance reflecting these imaginations. This preparatory study is based on interviews conducted with children with and without varied forms of disabilities. The aim of the study was to investigate how children describe their ability in relation to collaboration, materialities, disability and norms within Physical Education and Health (PEH). The results from this study show that embodied and collaborative goal-oriented practices generate imaginations of community and belonging through a notion of contributing. The results indicate that informing, teaching, and learning about inclusion and exclusion do not naturally produce physical and embodied practices. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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