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- af Geijerstam, Åsa, docent, 1972-, et al.
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Förutsättningar för ämnesspecifik läsförståelse i samhällskunskap i grundskolan
- 2023
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö universitet. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :2, s. 114-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deepens the understanding of conditions for students' subject-specific reading comprehension created through different ways of working with reading in civic education, and the support students thus get to read verbal texts. Motivation for the study is found in an increasing need for knowledge about reading in various school subjects, and theoretical foundation is found in New Literacy Studies and disciplinary literacy. Video recordings were analyzed from lessons in three different schools and six different classes (ca 100h in total). The schools worked with reading in different ways, two schools used different models for teaching reading and one school did not use any particular model. The material was analyzed using thematic content analysis. Seven different functions for reading were identified together with reading materials. Furthermore, we analyzed which text levels were in focus. Results show that the classrooms where teachers work according to special models give clearer support to read and comprehend longer coherent verbal texts by using this type of texts and working with them through a variety of functions for reading activities, activities general for several subjects as well as more subject specific activities.
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- Nygren, Thomas, 1972-, et al.
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Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish compulsory school
- 2019
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - : Routledge. - 2000-4508. ; 10:1, s. 56-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Critical thinking is brought to the fore as a central competence in today’s society and in school curricula, but what may be emphasised as a general skill may also differ across school subjects. Using a mixed methods approach we identify general formulations regarding critical thinking in the Swedish curriculum of school year nine and seven more subject-specific categories of critical thinking in the syllabi and national tests in history, physics, mathematics and Swedish. By analysing 76 individual students’ critical thinking as expressed in national tests we find that a student that thinks critically in one subjects does not necessarily do so in other subjects. We find that students’ grades in different subjects are closely linked to their abilities to answer questions designed to test critical thinking in the subjects. We also find that the same formulations of critical thinking in two subjects may mean very different things when translated into assessments. Our findings suggest that critical thinking among students comprise different, subject-specific skills. The complexity of our findings highlights a need for future research to help clarify to students and researchers what it means to think critically in school.
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- Uddling, Jenny, 1972-
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Textsamtalens möjligheter och begränsningar i språkligt heterogena fysikklassrum
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis reports and discusses results from case studies of how two physics teachers process the language and subject content of textbook texts in interaction with their students, several of whom are second language learners. The overall aim is to study and contribute to knowledge about the didactic choices teachers make in relation to text-talks in linguistically diverse physics classrooms. In order to find out what might pose linguistic challenges for the students, the textbook texts used in the classrooms are also analyzed.Data was collected through video and audio recordings in a year 5 and a year 8 physics classroom, during a period of nine and seven weeks respectively, where physics was taught by teachers who identified themselves as having a language focus in science instruction. In addition to the classroom observations, semi-structured interviews with the teachers were conducted.The study is rooted in socio-cultural theory, including literacy and second language acquisition, and in social semiotics, including systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and multimodal perspectives. In the textbook texts, structural and lexicogrammatical features were analyzed. In the text-talks, the analysis focused on how language and content were processed in interaction with the students and what opportunities and limitations this offered the students.The results reveal that the science textbook texts impose great linguistic demands upon the students. The results also reveal that both teachers carried out extensive textual processing in interaction with their students, which showed the teachers’ broad repertoire of didactic choices in connection with the text-talks. The text-talks offered an increased redundancy, opportunities to develop academic registers and to some extent to be socialized into disciplinary reading. Limitations were associated with the teachers not always being sufficiently clear about the purpose and implementation of the text-talks, the language focus sometimes taking the focus off the subject matter and the teachers' use of everyday language not always being an asset.
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- af Geijerstam, Åsa, docent, 1972-
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Att skriva i alla ämnen i tidiga skolår
- 2020
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Ingår i: Skrivundervisningens grunder. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151102788 ; , s. 57-74
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- af Geijerstam, Åsa, docent, 1972-
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Att skriva i naturorienterande ämnen i skolan
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- When children encounter new subjects in school, they are also faced with new ways of using language. Learning science thus means learning the language of science, and writing is one of the ways this is accomplished. The present study investigates writing in natural sciences in grades 5 and 8 in Swedish schools. Major theoretical influences for these investigations are found within the socio-cultural, dialogical and social semiotic perspectives on language use.The study is based on texts written by 97 students, interviews around these texts and observations from 16 different classroom practices. Writing is seen as a situated practice; therefore analysis is carried out of the activities surrounding the texts. The student texts are analysed in terms of genre and in relation to their abstraction, density and use of expansions. This analysis shows among other things that the texts show increasing abstraction and density with increasing age, whereas the text structure and the use of expansions do not increase.It is also argued that a central point in school writing must be the students’ way of talking about their texts. Analysis of interviews with the students is thus carried out in terms of text movability. The results from this analysis indicate that students find it difficult to talk about their texts. They find it hard to express the main content of the text, as well as to discuss it’s function and potential readers.Previous studies argue that writing constitutes a potential for learning. In the material studied in this thesis, this potential learning tool is not used to any large extent. To be able to participate in natural sciences in higher levels, students need to take part in practices where the specialized language of natural science is used in writing as well as in speech.
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- af Geijerstam, Åsa, docent, 1972-, et al.
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Linguistically based scales for assessment of young students’ writing
- 2022
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Ingår i: Writing & Pedagogy. - : Equinox Publishing. - 1756-5839 .- 1756-5847. ; 13:1-3, s. 227-265
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study addresses the question of how different aspects of students’ writing achievement can be recognised and evaluated. We developed a linguistically based framework for criteria-based assessment, anchored in a functional view of language and language learning. The framework was used to determine what traits characterise texts at different Proficiency Groups based on comparative judgement and what traits characterise texts assessed differently. Altogether, 100 texts (written by students ages 6–9) representing four text genres were assessed and ranked using both comparative judgement (holistic assessment) and criteria-based analysis. The results indicate that texts generally are assessed as stronger (i.e., placed in a higher Proficiency Group) when comparative judgement is used than what the assessment of a specific language resource indicates. The results also indicate that assessment differences might be a result of different quality expectations for different genres. This points towards the need for genre- and subject-specific assessment criteria to scaffold students in their emergent disciplinary writing development.
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- af Geijerstam, Åsa, docent, 1972-, et al.
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Läsande och skrivande i olika ämnen
- 2019
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Ingår i: Att bli lärare i svenska. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147129737 ; , s. 89-101
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