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- Andersson, Fia, 1950-
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Att utmana erfarenheter : Kunskapsutveckling i en forskningscirkel
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims at describing and analysing the process and content in knowledge development within a research circle. The participants in this circle are seven teachers who work with multilingual children diagnosed within the autism spectrum, and me as a researcher.The study is conducted within the tradition of participatory-oriented research. The research issue concerns the questions these teachers ask themselves in their everyday work. The study, consisting of twelve meetings, was carried out during 2004-2005. In the final meeting material collected in the circle was analysed together by all participants. The knowledge-content analysis disclosed four main themes: mother-tongue issues, disabilities and diagnoses, the issue of frames and matters related to working with parents and other professionals. The results show that once a child is diagnosed within the autism spectrum the diagnosis “takes over” and mother-tongue instruction is seldom discussed.The participants in the circle found it difficult to collaborate with the various authorities involved in working with a child and its family. They also found it difficult to communicate with parents, due to language barriers, different cultural contexts, and the observation that interpreters did not translate properly. The participants noted an existing hierarchy in relation to doctors and psychologists, regarded as having the mandate to assess a child’s ability and suggest placement in class.A conclusion is that the work of the teachers entails a high degree of complexity, and that knowledge meetings and collaboration between parents, teachers, and the various authorities are needed. During the circle process emancipating collective knowledge was constructed transcending what any participant had from the start. Experiences discussed in continuing dialogues, and in an on-going process, seem to be essential for generation of knowledge. When experiences were challenged, potentials for different actions were revealed.
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- Wingård, Britta
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Att vara rektor och kvinna
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study is about heads in the Swedish compulsory school. The aim of the study was toincrease the understanding of being a head and a woman without the ambition to explore sexdifferences. To make the study participatory a research circle was chosen as a general framefor the investigation. In this circle with eight women, specific issues have been elaborated,data have been collected, interpreted and analyzed. Empirical data have also been collectedthrough life history interviews. The work in the research circle decided the theoreticalframes of reference: a theory concerning the relation between state and society, an organisational perspective and a feminist perspective. The issues concerned the women's lives, theexternal conditions for work, their own view of the work situation and how they acquire andhave acquired knowledge.The results indicate that the women, during a period of their lives, have been living inrelative subordination. External conditions of their work varied considerably, but workingconditions were very similar. They worked with administrative tasks and problems ofpersonal relations, not primarily with school development. The women were during theirschooltime all in the position of received knowing, but as heads three of them were in otherpositions. One of them learns in a constructivist way and so she has an authentic voice to usein public. Their background and current social context seem to give very little opportunity todevelop a constructivistic learning and arenas where real talk can be developed.
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