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- Andersson, Arne, et al.
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Ottenby fågelstation : Årsrapport 1999
- 1999
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Decenniets, seklets och milleniets sista år blev ett år av stora förändringar vid Ottenby fågelstation. Deföregående tre-fyra åren hade präglats av mycket dålig ekonomi och därtill personalproblem. Under 1998blev situationen akut. Som ett första led i att förbättra situationen ombildades Ottenbykommittén (avSveriges Ornitologiska Förening satt att sköta fågelstationen) under hösten 1998. Den störstaförändringen blev sedan att Jan Pettersson, platschef sedan 1978, sades upp. Därtill kom uppsägning,pensionering, dödsfall (se nedan) och sedan tidigare överflyttade tjänster till OFAB, vilket innebar detatt den “fast” anställda personalstyrkan, som 1992 var 7 personer, reducerades till noll!Ottenbykommittén har nu fått en mycket mer aktiv roll i stationens arbete. Olika verksamhetsdelar haridentifierats och ledamöterna har getts olika ansvarsområden.Kommittén bestod under året av :Åke Lindström (ordförande)Christian Hjort (sekreterare, utlandsverksamheten)Dennis Kraft (ekonomi)Arne Andersson (datafrågor)Dennis Hasselquist (samordning av ansökningar)Anders Hedenström (forskningssamordnare)Niclas Jonzén (personal)Lars Lindell (SOF:s styrelse).Aktiviteterna inom dessa olika områden redovisas nedan och här skallbara de generella linjerna i arbetet läggas fram.Tvivelsutan förbättrades arbetsklimatet för den ideellt arbetandepersonalen på fågelstationen och glädjande nog var tillströmningen storav arbetsvilliga ungdomar. Stationen blev på många sätt öppnare, inteminst mot fågelskådarleden. Fler personer besökte stationen och pådetta sätt kan många fler känna sig delaktiga och trivas. Nackdelen äratt det rent praktiskt blir svårare att driva verksamheten med mångamänniskor närvarande och relativt stor omsättning på personer.Genom mycket hård åtstramning på utgiftssidan kunde ett förväntat rejält underskott i budgeten vändastill en liten vinst. Alla inblandade skall ha stor ära av detta eftersom både stora som små uppoffringarkrävts för att styra ekonomin rätt. Den lilla vinsten användes till att börja täcka det underskott somunder många år ackumulerats. Även om det nu känns som att vi har en god kontroll över den löpandeekonomin så måste vi på lång sikt hitta fler finansieringskällor till stationens verksamhet. Det är tillexempel mycket otillfredsställande att vi nu inte har någon heltidsanställd personal, något som på siktmåste lösas.Fågelstationens gamla dröm om att ha en egen filial söder om Sahara gick i uppfyllelse under 1999 meden månads försöksverksamhet i Nigeria under våren. Denna slog väl ut på alla sätt och verksamhetenskall nu intensifieras under 2000.Datahanteringen fick sig en rejäl skjuts framåt under året och kan vi bara snart förnya maskinparken finnsgrunden för en smidig och effektiv datahantering vid stationen. Detta kommer att underlätta bådeutåtriktad verksamhet (Internet) och eget analysarbete.Ottenby Försäljnings AB (OFAB), som drivit den affärsmässiga delen av stationens verksamhet sedan1995, fortsatte sin verksamhet parallellt med fågelstationens ideella verksamhet. Genom verksamheten iNaturum och restaurang Fågel Blå svarar OFAB för en viktig del av fågelstationens publika aktiviteter.Det är av stor vikt för framtiden att behålla och utveckla det goda samarbetet mellan fågelstationen ochOFAB.Figur 1. Åke LindströmFigur 2. Patrik Rhönnstad, platschef 1999Kontinuiteten i det praktiska arbetet på stationen blev naturligtvis något lidande av att den rutineradepersonalen försvunnit. Situationen hjälptes dock upp signifikant av att OFABs personal fanns på plats(Håkan och Annika Lundkvist, Gösta Friberg) samt att nye platschefen och många av de ideelltarbetande hade erfarenhet från tidigare år.
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- Bishop, Kevin, et al.
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EviWet: Evidensbaserat beslutsstöd för våtmarkers hydrologiska ekosystemtjänster
- 2024
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vissa våtmarker kan jämna ut höga och låga vattenflöden i naturen, och därigenom mildra översvämningar och torka. Hur väl en våtmark förmår att dämpa extremflöden beror på var i naturen de ligger och vilken sorts våtmarkstyp det är. Vi vet för lite om våtmarkers hydrologiska egenskaper och betydelsen av placering i landskapet. Forskarna i EviWet har undersökt torvens vattenhållande förmåga, och därifrån skapat modeller för ekohydrologi, samt utvecklat beslutsstöd för operationell modellering. Projektet har finansierats med Formas medel för det Nationella forskningsprogrammet om klimat men administrerats av Naturvårdsverket.
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- Bjarnegård, Niclas, et al.
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Long-term hyperglycaemia impairs vascular smooth muscle cell function in women with type 1 diabetes mellitus
- 2009
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Ingår i: DIABETES and VASCULAR DISEASE RESEARCH. - : SAGE Publications. - 1479-1641 .- 1752-8984. ; 6:1, s. 25-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Observations of increased stiffness in the elastic aorta in women with diabetes, but not men, emphasise the need for further analysis regarding early abnormalities in arterial wall properties of women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM).Ultrasound was used to study the wall properties of the distal brachial artery (BA) in 37 type 1 diabetic women (aged 22-45 years) without evident complications and in 53 controls (C). Blood samples were drawn for later analysis.Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) was slightly lower in DM than C, 8.1 +/- 4.3% vs. 10.3 +/- 4.9% (p<0.05), and nitrate-mediated dilatation (NMD) was markedly lower, 21.7 +/- 6.6% vs. 31.4 +/- 5.7% (p<0.001). Lumen diameter, intima-media thickness and distensibility were similar in DM and C. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) was lower in DM than C, 231 +/- 65 vs. 349 +/- 68 ng/ml (p<0.001). Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA(1C)) and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-9) were independent predictors of the reduced NMD in the DM.Brachial artery responsiveness to an exogenous donor of nitric oxide (NO) was markedly reduced in type 1 diabetic women despite only limited reduction in endothelium-dependent dilatation. The negative association between NMD and HbA(1C) suggests that long-term hyperglycaemia impairs vascular smooth muscle cell function in DM.
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- Börlin, Niclas, 1968-, et al.
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A globally convergent gauss-newton algorithm for the bundle adjustment problem with functional constraints
- 2003
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Ingår i: Optical 3-D measurement techniques. - : Wichmann-Verlag. ; , s. 269-276
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper describes a Gauss-Newton-based algorithm for the bundle adjustment problem with functional constraints (GNC). The GNC algorithm has superior theoretical convergence properties compared to the conventional bundle algorithm. Both algorithms were applied to simulated measurements of a sphere with 2-3 cameras and 4-9 points. For 2 cameras and 4-5 points, the GNC converged in substantially more cases. For the other configurations, the convergence properties were similar. The added cost for the GNC algorithm was less than 0.01 iterations on average. The GNC algorithm need to be evaluated on real-world problems, but the results suggest that the algorithm will be more reliable for minimum data problems and have a minimal overhead for easy problems.
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- Börlin, Niclas, 1968-, et al.
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Pros and cons of constrained and unconstrained formulation of the bundle adjustment problem
- 2004
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Ingår i: ISPRS Congress Istanbul 2004, Proceedings of Commission III. - : ISPRS. ; , s. 589-594
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Two implementations of the bundle adjustment problem were applied to a subset of the Zurich City Hall reference data set. One implementation used the standard Euler angle parameterisation of the rotation matrix. The second implementation used all nine elements of the rotation matrix as unknowns and six functional constraints. The second formulation was constructed to reduce the non-linearity of the optimisation problem. The hypothesis was that a lower degree of non-linearity would lead to faster convergence. Furthermore, each implementation could optionally use the line search damping technique known from optimisation theory. The algorithms were used to solve the relative orientation problem for a varying number of homologous points from 33 different camera pairs. The results show that the constrained formulation has marginally better convergence properties, with or without damping. However, damping alone halves the number of convergence failures at a minor computational cost. The conclusion is that except to avoid the singularities associated with the Euler angles, the preferred use of the constrained formulation remains an open question. However, the results strongly suggest that the line search damping technique should be included in standard implementations of the bundle adjustment algorithm.
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- Franck, Niclas, et al.
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Cardiovascular risk factors related to the PPARγ Pro12Ala polymorphism in patients with type 2 diabetes are gender dependent
- 2012
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Ingår i: Blood Pressure. - : Informa Healthcare. - 0803-7051 .- 1651-1999. ; 21:2, s. 122-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The interaction of the PPARγ Pro12Ala polymorphism with diabetes and cardiovascular risk is controversial. We studied 173 women and 309 men in the observational CARDIPP trial in which determination of left ventricular mass, carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) were performed. Blood pressures were measured with 24-h ambulatory technique (ABP). Heterozygotes and homozygotes of Ala were defined as Ala in the analyses. Men with Ala-isoform displayed higher waist circumference (Ala: 107 ± 14 cm, Pro: 104 ± 11 cm, p = 0.045) and body weight (Ala: 95.7 ± 18 kg, Pro: 91.6 ± 14 kg, p = 0.042) than Pro-homozygotes. Men with ALA-isoform also showed higher systolic ABP levels (Ala: 134 ± 15 mmHg, Pro: 130 ± 14 mmHg, p = 0.004), whereas left ventricular mass index, IMT and PWV were unrelated to isoforms. In contrast, carotid–radial PWV was lower in women with the Ala-isoform (Ala: 7.9 ± 1.0 m/s, Pro: 8.5 ± 1.3 m/s, p = 0.01) and levels of apolipoprotein A1 were higher (Ala: 1.43 ± 0.27 g/l, Pro: 1.35 ± 0.17 g/l, p = 0.03). In conclusion, we found that men with type 2 diabetes having the Ala-isoform of PPARγ Pro12Ala had an unfavorable cardiovascular risk profile, whereas women with this isoform had lower carotid–radial PWV and higher apolipoprotein A1 levels suggesting a beneficial prognosis. These differences according to gender of the ALA isoform in type 2 diabetes deserve further attention.
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- Franck, Niclas, et al.
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Insulin-induced GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane is blunted in large compared with small primary fat cells isolated from the same individual
- 2007
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Ingår i: Diabetologia. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0012-186X .- 1432-0428. ; 50:8, s. 1716-1722
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims/hypothesis: Several studies have suggested that large fat cells are less responsive to insulin than small fat cells. However, in these studies, large fat cells from obese individuals were compared with smaller fat cells from leaner participants, in effect making it impossible to draw conclusions about whether there is a causal relationship between fat cell size and insulin sensitivity. We hypothesised that small fat cells might be more insulin-responsive than large adipocytes when obtained from the same individual. Materials and methods: We developed a method of sorting isolated primary human fat cells by using nylon filters of two different pore sizes. The cells were stained to visualise DNA, which allowed discrimination from artefacts such as lipid droplets. The sorted cells were left to recover overnight, since we had previously demonstrated that this is necessary for correct assessment of insulin response. Results: We found similar amounts of the insulin receptor (IR), IRS-1 and GLUT4 when we compared small and large adipocytes from the same volunteer by immunoblotting experiments using the same total cell volume from both cell populations. Activation of IR, IRS-1 and Akt1 (also known as protein kinase B) by insulin was similar in the two cell populations. However, immunofluorescence confocal microscopy of plasma membrane sheets did not reveal any increase in the amount of GLUT4 in the plasma membrane following insulin stimulation in the large fat cells, whereas we saw a twofold increase in the amount of GLUT4 in the small fat cells. Conclusions/interpretation: Our results support a causal relationship between the accumulation of large fat cells in obese individuals and reduced insulin responsiveness.
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- Franck, Niclas, 1977-
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On the importance of fat cell size, location and signaling in insulin resistance
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide and is associated with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. During the past decades, substantial evidence has demonstrated that not only the amount of adipose tissue constitutes a major determinant in the development of metabolic disorders, but also the distribution. The visceral adipose tissue has shown to be stronger correlated with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease than the subcutaneous depot. When we measured the activity of the nuclear receptor PPARγ in visceral and subcutaneous adipocytes, we found considerably lower activity in fat cells obtained from the visceral portion. This finding provides additional evidence to the unfavorable consequences of visceral obesity. The common PPARγ polymorphism Pro12Ala was studied in type 2 diabetic patients. We found that men with the Ala isoform exhibited higher sagittal abdominal diameter, waist circumference and body weight compared with homozygotes for the Pro isoform. However, no differences in either gender with regard to blood pressure or markers of cardiovascular disease and organ damage could be observed.In addition to an excessive visceral adipose tissue mass, obese subjects with enlarged adipocytes display an increased risk for developing metabolic disorders compared with individuals exhibiting smaller fat cells but a similar degree of adiposity. The insulin responsiveness in small and large adipocytes obtained from the same subject was examined. Upon insulin stimulation, we found approximately a 2 fold increase of GLUT4 at the plasma membrane in small adipocytes, whereas the large fat cells were refractory to insulin induced GLUT4 translocation. This finding demonstrates a causal relationship between the accumulation of large fat cells in obese subjects and reduced insulin responsiveness.Caloric restriction in humans ameliorates insulin responsiveness in liver and muscle prior to any substantial weight loss. By combining gene expression profiles of adipose tissue and adipocytes from human subjects undergoing either caloric restriction or overfeeding, we identified genes regulated by changes in caloric intake independent of weight loss per se. We found several genes under the control of mTOR and SREBP1 as well as genes involved in β-oxidation, liberation of fatty acids and glyceroneogenesis to be regulated during the interventions. These genes may indicate pathways and mechanisms mediating the effects of nutrient deprivation and obesity on morbidity and mortality.
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- Franck, Niclas, et al.
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The Ala isoform of the PPARγ Pro12Ala polymorphism is related to increased abdominal obesity in men but has little impact on cardiovascular risk markers in patients with type 2 diabetes
- 2009
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: The interaction of the PPARγ Pro12Ala with obesity and cardiovascular risk is controversial. We aimed to study potential associations of the Ala isoform of this polymorphism with obesity, blood pressure and markers of cardiovascular disease and organ damage in middle aged patients with type 2 diabetes.Subjects and methods: We recruited 148 women and 246 men in the CArdiovascular Risk factors in Patients with DIabetes – a Prospective study in the Primary health care setting (CARDIPP) study in which early markers of organ damage by cardiac echocardiography, determination of carotid intima media thickness (IMT) and measurement of pulse wave velocity (PWV) was performed. Blood pressures were measured as both as 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and as a noninvasive recording of central blood pressure. Allelic discrimination was detected with the ABI prism 7500HT Sequence Detection System. Due to the low prevalence of Ala homozygotes, heterozygotes and homozygotes of Ala were defined as Ala isoform in the analyses.Results: Men with Ala isoform exhibited higher sagittal abdominal diameter (Pro: 25.4±3.4 cm, Ala: 26.7±4.9 cm, p= 0.04) waist circumference (Pro: 104±11 cm, Ala: 108±15 cm, p= 0.046) and body weight (Pro: 91.6±14, Ala: 96.5±18, p= 0.035) than homozygotes for the Pro isoform. However, there were no differences in either gender with respect to blood pressures, left-ventricular mass-index, carotid IMT or carotid-femoral PWV in the participants.Conclusion: It is unlikely that determination of the PPARγ Pro12Ala isoform in clinic practice adds any major information on cardiovascular risk or circulatory organ damage in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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- Holm, Hampus, 1979-, et al.
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Innovating literacy learning for 21st century teacher education
- 2023
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Ingår i: The future of teacher education. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004678545 - 9789004678538 - 9789004678521 ; , s. 286-310
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teaching training can lag changes in school and society. With the onset of ubiquitous writing and mobile devices, the literacies experiences of today’s school and teacher students are different to those of most teacher trainers. In this chapter, a sequence of case studies is presented linking the school student, the teacher education student, and the teacher educator to provide a multifaceted picture of literacies development. Two questionnaires answered by 71 and 39 upper secondary school students, respectively, provided a picture of literacies use in upper secondary school (Case Study 1). The written tasks and the post-writing interviews with three upper secondary school students highlighted the tensions between out-of-school ubiquitous literacies and the in-school academic writing demands (Case Study 2). The teacher education student participatory research case study with four students challenged perceptions of how teacher education students learn academic literacies, and of student resilience (Case Study 3). Together, the case studies showed a disconnection in school between school student contemporary ubiquitous literacies and school literacies expectations. Although finding ways to ameliorate this disconnection through innovative teacher education is important, finding ways to simultaneously strengthen student teachers’ learning autonomy, strengthen the sustainability of their teaching to keep abreast of ubiquitous literacies changes is central to make school inclusive and sustainable.
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- Jiguet, Frederic, et al.
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Current population trends mirror forecasted changes in climatic suitability for Swedish breeding birds
- 2013
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Ingår i: Bird Study. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0006-3657 .- 1944-6705. ; 60:1, s. 60-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Capsule Swedish breeding bird species that are predicted to experience a more suitable climate by 2050 are currently increasing in numbers. Aims To test, for a large set of breeding birds, if recent population trends mirror the changes in predicted climatic suitability across the Swedish distribution range, and to test if considering natal dispersal improves the fit of the predictive models. Methods Recent decadal population trends of 131 species of birds breeding in Sweden were compared to forecasted change in their future national distribution range by 2050, as simulated by suitability distribution models using climate and natal dispersal scenarios. Two other potential predictors of recent demographic trends are controlled for - namely habitat specialization and generation time. Results The 1998-2009 population trends were positively correlated with predicted changes in distribution range. Thus, forecasted changes in climatic suitability predict recent population trends. Accounting for the species-specific natal dispersal provided only a slightly better fit. Conclusion Recent climate change has affected the population size of Swedish breeding birds. Climatic suitability models can be an efficient tool for predicting the impacts of climate change on the abundance of birds.
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- Jonzén, Niclas, et al.
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Climate patterns and the stochastic dynamics of migratory birds
- 2002
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Ingår i: Oikos. - : Wiley. - 1600-0706 .- 0030-1299. ; 97:3, s. 329-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We analyse time series data of 17 bird species trapped at Ottenby Bird Observatory, Sweden, during spring migration 1972-1999. The species have similar demography but respond differently to variation in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) - a strong determinant of winter climate in the northern Hemisphere. Species wintering in northern Europe, compared to species having winter quarters in the Mediterranean area, tend to respond positively to variation in NAO. The variation within each group is high due to wide-ranging winter-distribution in many species, probably smoothing out the effect of spatial variation in NAO. Whereas mild winters (high NAO) are benign for many - but not all - birds wintering in northern Europe, the effect of drier-than-normal conditions in the Mediterranean area during high NAO index winters is uncertain. The work presented here goes beyond simple correlative studies and help identifying which species that are most affected by variation in winter climate. This is a first important step that calls for a more mechanistic approach when analysing possible changes to climate change.
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- Kapoor, Pooja Middha, et al.
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Combined associations of a polygenic risk score and classical risk factors with breast cancer risk
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0027-8874 .- 1460-2105. ; 113:3, s. 329-337
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We evaluated the joint associations between a new 313-variant PRS (PRS313) and questionnaire-based breast cancer risk factors for women of European ancestry, using 72 284 cases and 80 354 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Interactions were evaluated using standard logistic regression and a newly developed case-only method for breast cancer risk overall and by estrogen receptor status. After accounting for multiple testing, we did not find evidence that per-standard deviation PRS313 odds ratio differed across strata defined by individual risk factors. Goodness-of-fit tests did not reject the assumption of a multiplicative model between PRS313 and each risk factor. Variation in projected absolute lifetime risk of breast cancer associated with classical risk factors was greater for women with higher genetic risk (PRS313 and family history) and, on average, 17.5% higher in the highest vs lowest deciles of genetic risk. These findings have implications for risk prevention for women at increased risk of breast cancer.
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- Kolm, Niclas
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Influence of Mate Quality on Reproductive Decisions in a Fish with Paternal Care
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Female reproductive decisions have been suggested to be highly influenced by mate quality. I have studied whether offspring quality may be adjusted by females to match the attractiveness of males and how strong control females have over their reproductive investment focusing on egg size. This was done in the Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni), a sex-role reversed obligate paternal mouthbrooder where males invest heavily into reproduction. As this species is suitable for both laboratory experiments and field studies it is an ideal candidate for the study of reproductive investment.Mating was size-assortative and both males and females benefited from pairing with large partners. However, male size determined the reproductive output of a pair. Females courted large males more intensively and produced larger, but not fewer eggs when mated to large males as compared to small males. Further, this matching of egg size to mate attractiveness may be fast. Female courtship behaviours contained honest information regarding both clutch weight and egg maturity, traits that may be highly important for male mate choice. Surprisingly, males played an important part in territory defence suggesting relatively equal sex-roles in this species. Also, this species showed stable group structures which may be important for the evolution of female plasticity in reproductive investment due to high variance in quality of available mates.This thesis suggest that females have a remarkable control over their reproductive investments and that male quality may be highly influential on reproductive decisions regarding offspring quality. Furthermore, it suggest that sexual selection may have strong effects on the evolution of egg size and parental care on a whole.
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- Lindström, Niclas, docent, 1974-
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Att balansera uppdragen att förmedla och kritiskt granska värderingar : en empirisk fallstudie
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Mellan kunskap och fostran. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144167596 ; , s. 31-42
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I det här kapitlet behandlas hur versamma lärare i samhällsorienterande ämnen (årskurs 7-9) tar sig an kontroversiella frågor, vilket aktualiserar balansgången mellan de potentiellt motstridiga uppdragen att förmedla och kritiskt granska värderingar.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-
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Controversial Issues and their Role in RE
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Ingår i: Conference proceedings. - Florence : Filodritto Editore. - 9788885813878 ; , s. 489-493
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the non-confessional Swedish subject religious education (RE), teachers regularly address sensitive questions, e.g. concerning pupils’ convictions, which sometimes can be regarded as controversial issues (CI). Hence, the overall purpose of this paper is to present, analyze and discuss a minor web survey of which issues RE teachers in secondary school consider to be controversial and how they handle them in the classroom. I will discuss (a) if CI:s can be understood as topics that challenge or violate prevailing ideals, norms and values in a given context, as well as (b) if the teachers’ strategies tend to decrease or increase such value conflicts. Two theoretical assumptions are used in order to analyze the results: (1) A distinction between individualist values, predominant in secular societies, and collectivist values, predominant in religious societies. (2) That teachers' strategies for handling controversial issues, through routines and working methods, influence the values which are reproduced in education. This study indicates that the topics the participating RE teachers consider to be CI:s tend to defy individualist values. The study also show that a majority of the RE teachers stated that they handled CI:s by staying neutral or presenting a balanced point of view. This may be a way of socializing the pupils to embrace individualist values, are expected to make autonomous decisions and take responsibility for their choices. In the conclusion, it will be suggested, that the prevailing individualist perspective of Swedish RE may give a biased understanding on alternative point of views.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-
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Den nya syntesen och etik i undervisningen
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordidactica. - Karlstad : CSD Karlstad. - 2000-9879. ; :2018:3, s. 27-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers within the educational field usually acknowledge the idea that teaching is an essentially moral activity. Yet, they seem to have different opinions on how teachers are supposed to complete that task in their everyday pedagogical practice. Jonathan Haidt has conducted a series of international studies, during recent years, revealing how people in general tend to respond ethically to situations that evoke strong emotional reactions. Based on the results he has presented a theory, the New Syntheses, in which he claims to explain the difference between the dominating moral pedagogical models and develop new approaches to teaching ethics. The present paper is based on a survey of Swedish teacher students and religious education teachers for which we have borrowed two of Jonathan Haidts examples. We discuss the New Synthesis in relation to the results of the surveys and the ethical dimension of the teaching profession. We argue that these results indicate a need for teacher students and teachers to consciously reflect on their values and methods for approaching ethics in education.
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- Lindström, Niclas
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Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main question of this thesis is if a practice is right because it is prescribed by an ethical theory, or if an ethical theory is right because it follows from certain practices? I propose the following definitions to illustrate the main alternatives: (1) if a practice is determined by an ethical theory and the ethical theory is not determined by practice, it is possible to speak of a top-down model of ethical thinking. (2) If a theory, conversely, is determined by a practice and the practice is not determined by theory, it can be described as a bottom-up model. (3) If a practice is used in order to determine an ethical theory, which in turn can be used to assess new practical situations in a constantly evolving process, it can be labelled an interaction model. (4) Finally, it is possible that certain practices are the basis of morality, and do not need to be systemized in any ethical theory. The focus of this study is on alternatives (2), (3) and (4) where practice is given due weight and is characterized by a rejection of a strictly theoretical approach to ethics. I address representatives from some of the most influential alternatives such as: (2) Albert R Jonsen & Stephen Toulmin (casuistry), (3) Jürgen Habermas (discourse ethics), Alasdair MacIntyre (virtue ethics), Jonathan Haidt (experimental ethics) and (4) John Dewey, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty (pragmatism). I also discuss how some prominent theologians, such as Stanley Hauerwas (Christian virtue ethics) and James Gustafson (theocentric ethics), deal with similar questions. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify various positions represented in the debate, and to examine which consequences they have for how decisions are made and justified within an ethical framework. I argue that the strength of models that include practical concerns in ethical thinking is that they can contribute to our understanding of why ideals, norms and values differ between various social spheres, and how they change over time. Instead of taking the traditional position, where a basic assumption about the nature of moral questions is crucial to identify a reliable approach, it is possible to assess which approaches give reliable results and use these to identify the factors relevant to answer moral questions. I identify two main alternatives: a paradigmatic and a discursive way of treating moral issues. They address various aspects of human life and action, which means that they do not exclude, but rather enrich each other in the context of an overall debate. It seems possible that both types of studies can provide reasons for performing an action or accepting a theory, which can then be revised and give rise to new positions. From such a perspective, neither the image of man and the world, nor our standards, ideals and values are necessarily static, but can be revised and reconsidered within the context of a changing social, cultural and historical context.
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- Lindström, Niclas, docent, 1974-
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Hur görs frågor kontroversiella?
- 2024. - 1
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Ingår i: Att undervisa om kontroversiella frågor. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151110844 ; , s. 67-78
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lärare som undervisar i samhällsorienterade ämnen hanterar kontinuerligt kontroversiella frågor och konflikter som uppstår mellan individer eller grupper i skolan. Men vad eller vem är det egentligen som gör att frågor blir kontroversiella i klassrummet? Svaret på frågan är långt ifrån så självklart som det kan verka vid första anblick. I det här kapitlet görs ett försök att reda ut detta utifrån några praktiska exempel hämtade från studier i skolmiljö.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Lärares yrkesetik och etiskt resonerande
- 2018. - 1
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Ingår i: Läraren och yrkesetiken. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144120881 ; , s. 59-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- En uppsättning yrkesetiska principer sätter ramar och ger riktlinjer för lärares verksamhet, men ofta är sådana principer i sig själva inte tillräckliga för att ge den vägledning som krävs för att lösa konkreta etiska problem. För det krävs också att läraren besitter färdigheter relevanta för att hantera etiska frågor, i synnerhet en förmåga till etiskt resonerande.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Moral Taste and Moral Education : An Interview Study
- 2021
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Ingår i: Abstract Book 23rd Annual International Conference on Education. - Aten : Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). - 9789605984021 ; , s. 46-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent research on moral psychology, the human consciousness has been compared to a tongue, with different taste buds, which together can cause a variety of sensations. According to this theory people, in general, have a preparedness to react to situations, which can provide opportunities or pose threats in a social context. Moral psychologist, Jonathan Haidt (2012, 2013), has described these receptors as pairs, for example: care/harm, justice/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, holiness/degradation, and liberty/oppression. Which of these foundations the individual develops a taste for depends, largely, on the social and cultural context (Graham, Haidt & RimmKaufman 2008). Hence, the choices teachers make of which issues to address and in what way can contribute to a learning environment that influences their pupils‘ moral outlook. The purpose of this study is to investigate which of these moral intuitions or taste preferences that teachers want to endorse and cultivate in their pedagogical practices. Against this background, a number of qualitative research interviews were conducted with experienced teachers in the non-confessional subject religious education (RE), who have a particular responsibility for moral education in the Swedish school system. The interviews were partly based on a modified version of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, which was deliberately developed in order to determine the participants‘ moral taste, and the participants were asked to elaborate their answers (Graham, Haidt & Nosek, 2008). The results of our study indicate that the participants tended to favour care and justice over loyalty, authority and holiness. As one of the participants puts it: "many of my examples relate to the weak and vulnerable or the ones that are denied their rights in society… these pedagogical choices are based on the content of the curriculum but also mirror my own preferences". In this paper we will analyze the interviews with the RE teachers and critically discuss the consequences the moral foundations theory have for moral education.
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- Lindström, Niclas, docent, 1974-, et al.
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Moral Taste and Moral Education : An Interview Study
- 2022
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Ingår i: Athens Journal of Education. - Aten : Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). - 2407-9898 .- 2241-7958. ; 9:3, s. 365-376
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent research on moral psychology, the human consciousness has been compared to a tongue, with different taste buds, which together can cause a variety of sensations. According to this theory, people in general have a preparedness to react to situations, which can provide opportunities or pose threats in a social context. Moral psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, has described these receptors as pairs, for example: care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion and sanctity/degradation. Which of these foundations the individual develops a taste for depends, largely, on the social and cultural context. Hence, the choices teachers make of which issues to address and in what way can contribute to a learning environment that influences their pupils’ moral outlook. The purpose of this study is to investigate which of these moral intuitions or taste preferences that teachers want to endorse and cultivate in their pedagogical practices. Against this background, a number of qualitative research interviews were conducted with experienced teachers in the non-confessional subject religious education (RE), who have a particular responsibility for moral education in the Swedish school system. The interviews were based on a modified version of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, which was deliberately developed to determine the participants’ moral taste, and the participants were asked to elaborate their answers. The results indicate that the participants tended to favour harm and fairness over loyalty, authority and sanctity. As one of the participants puts it: “many of my examples relate to the weak and vulnerable or the ones that are denied their rights in society… these pedagogical choices are based on the content of the curriculum but also mirror my own preferences”. In this paper we analyse the interviews with the RE teachers and critically discuss the consequences the moral foundations theory has for moral education.
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On how RE Teachers Address the Sometimes-Conflicting Tasks of Conveying Basic Values and Tools for Critical Thinking
- 2020
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Ingår i: Abstract Book. - Athens : Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). - 9789605983253 ; , s. 41-41
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A recurring idea, among practitioners and researchers, is that “teaching is a moral endeavour” where any act can convey “moral meaning” and “influence students” (Hansen, 2001, 826; Bulloughs, 2010; Campbell, 2013). Some have even stated that “all that can be seen and heard in classrooms” can be of moral significance, including “events, actions and even aspects of the physical environment” (Jackson, Boostrom & Hansen, 1998). Yet, they seem to be divided on how teachers ought to treat ideals, norms and values in their pedagogical practices.Hence, a division is often made between character-based and reason-based approaches to moral or ethics education. The difference can, somewhat simplified, be described schematically by their respective emphasis on group or individual, emotion or reason, habituation or critical assessment of universal ethical principles (for a more elaborated account see: Kohlberg, 1966, 2; Carr, 1983, 39; Graham, Haidt & Rimm-Kaufman, 2008, 271, 275). Even if the approaches are often described as mutually exclusive alternatives teachers are, nevertheless, often expected to perform these tasks in their everyday practices (see SNAE 2011).Against this background, we have conducted qualitative research interviews, with religious education (RE) teachers, who are considered to have a particular responsibility for moral and ethics education in the Swedish school system (Almén, 2000; Hartman, 2008; Larsson, 2009; Franck & Löfstedt, 2015). Our overall aim of this paper is to investigate how they relate to the sometimes conflicting responsibilities to convey a set of basic values and contribute to the pupils’ abilities to critically examine ideals, norms and values. Our analysis of the results shows that RE teachers use different strategies to describe and motivate their pedagogical choices (Yin, 1994; Bryman, 2008). We will, for instance, distinguish between a casuist-, a rights-, and an existentialist oriented approach to moral and ethics education and perform a critical discussion of the results.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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On how RE Teachers Address the Sometimes Conflicting Tasks of Conveying Fundamental Values and Facilitating Critical Thinking
- 2022
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Ingår i: Athens Journal of Education. - : Athens Institute for Education and Research. - 2407-9898 .- 2241-7958. ; 9:1, s. 23-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teachers in the non-confessional Swedish subject religious education have conflicting responsibilities to convey values and facilitate critical thinking. The research regarding these responsibilities has often been considered a theoretical problem and the discussion has concerned theoretical solutions. However, the problem is not only theoretical. It is in fact also a practical problem that many teachers frequently encounter. The overall aim of this paper is thus to draw attention to these conflicting responsibilities as a practical problem that teachers face and are expected to solve in their pedagogical practices. In line with this aim, a number of qualitative research interviews were conducted with experienced religious education teachers, who are considered to have a particular responsibility for moral education in the Swedish school system. The purpose of the interviews was to investigate how they relate to their sometimes conflicting responsibilities and consequently make an empirically informed contribution to the debate. This is an important task since there are no official guidelines on how teachers are to balance these responsibilities in their pedagogical practices.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Reason and Emotion : How Teachers Respond to Ethical Problems
- 2018
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Ingår i: ATINER'S Conference Paper Series. - Athens : Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). ; , s. 1-14
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teachers frequently face ethical problems in their everyday practice – ranging from pedagogical choices affecting their pupils to pressing conflicts that need to be solved – and they are expected to respond to such problems in a professional manner. Given the centrality of the ethical dimension to the teaching profession, an important question is how teachers tend to approach such problems. While some studies have been carried out regarding how teachers in particular approach ethical problems, there are interesting studies revealing how people in general tend to respond ethically to situations involving ethical aspects that evoke strong emotional reactions. Aiming to fill parts of this gap, the present paper is based on a survey of Swedish teacher students and religious education (RE) teachers for which we have borrowed two examples from such general studies (carried out by Jonathan Haidt among others). These examples were chosen on the basis that one of them clearly represent a social taboo in a Swedish context while the other one does not. Letting the teacher students and RE teachers respond to both examples give us an indication of whether there is any significant difference in their approach to an example evoking a strong emotional reaction as opposed to a more neutral one. It is clear from our survey that there is such a difference: the respondents generally make rationally motivated judgments when confronted with the neutral example, while most of them seem to rely on gut feeling in the more provoking case. If these results can be taken as an indication of how teacher students and teachers tend to respond to real life situations, a provoking or emotionally laden context is likely to enhance the risk of making ethical choices which are not based on rational reasoning. We argue that these results emphasize the importance for teacher students as well as already practicing teachers to study, and cultivate the ability for, moral reasoning.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Religionskunskap
- 2019. - 3
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Ingår i: Utbildningshistoria. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144121192 ; , s. 263-276, s. 73-100
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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School meals : bridging the gap between citizen expectation, procurement skills and legislation
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Ethics of consumption. - Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers. - 9789086862313 - 9789086867844 ; , s. 423-428
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Among others, Swedish citizens trust responsible authorities and legislation to ensure that producers manufacture food under reasonable conditions for both sentient beings and landscapes. Nevertheless many consumers are prepared to go much further and buy goods with e.g. fair-trade or ecological certificates. We believe that this trust is becoming increasingly compromised, and a closer study of what values influence purchase of food served in official institutions such as hospitals, preschools, and schools is important as individual choice according to certain certificates is very limited. This forthcoming study has two main aims. One is to examine inherent values in consumer expectations, policies and legislation regarding school meals through an ethical analysis of different aspects such as e.g. individual choice, public health, global justice, animal welfare and environmental sustainability. Another aim is to suggest a model for municipalities and the county councils to weigh these, sometimes conflicting, factors to one another in order to take reasonable ethical responsibility, live up to citizen expectations and meet national and international legislation regarding e.g. global justice, sustainability and animal welfare.
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- Lindström, Niclas, docent, 1974-, et al.
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Three Approaches of How to Address Controversial Issues in Education
- 2022
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Ingår i: Abstract Book. - Athens : Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). - 9789605984755 ; , s. 85-86
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A recurring idea in the educational debate is that we live in a time of polarization, where people hold radically different beliefs, which makes it difficult for us to communicate with each other (e.g., Noddings & Brooks, 2017; Lukianoff & Haidt, 2018; Boghossian & Lindsey, 2019). It is, however, the teachers’ responsibility to address the controversial issues that tend to divide individuals or groups. Such issues may, for example, include moral dilemmas, extremism, terrorism, politics and religion (e.g. Moore & Kyser, 2014; Sjöborg, 2015; McDonough, 2016; Revell & Christopher, 2021). There is no generally accepted definition of controversial issues in the research literature. Most definitions, however, contain what we describe as emotional, cognitive and evaluative elements. Hence, controversial issues are matters about which individuals or groups tend to get upset and disagree, about which individuals or groups tend to hold conflicting explanations, and about which individuals or groups create solutions based on different values (e.g., Cooling, 2012; Hand, 2008; Ljunggren et al., 2015; Stradling, 1984; Lindström & Sullivan, 2021). Which aspects of controversial issues researchers emphasize seem to rely on a variety of factors, however, we argue that it depends on how they perceive the principal aim of education.In this paper, we will provide a division of three educational approaches to controversial issues, which are prevalent in the research literature and among teachers in their pedagogical practices. If the principal aim of education is:that students should develop without being disturbed by unsettling or threatening content, it is important that the teachers can create safe learning environments, which is characteristic of an emotional perspective of controversial issues (see: Stradling, 1984; Hickey, 2016; Cush, 2007; Lukianoff & Haidt, 2018 ).to develop the students’ ability to think and act rationally, they should be provided with opportunities to review arguments from different points of view and learn how to make well-grounded assessments, which is characteristic of a cognitive perspective of controversial issues (see: Hand, 2008; Boghossian & Lindsay, 2019).to contribute to the pupils’ ability to feel empathy, look beyond people´s differences and work for a fair community, they must be exposed to specific personal stories that can facilitate their understanding of others (see: Stradling, 1984; Cooling, 2012; Noddings & Brooks, 2017).In this paper, we will provide examples of these positions and discuss to which extent they are attainable and valuable ends to strive against in an educational practice.
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- Lindström, Niclas, docent, 1974-, et al.
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Two Educational Approaches to Moral Psychology: : Exploring the Possibilities of an Adaptive Attitude
- 2021
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Ingår i: 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education. - : Association for Moral Education.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent development within moral psychology has changed the understanding of how people, in general, make moral judgements. The results suggest that moral judgments involve two cognitive processes, intuitive responses and rational thinking, where the latter's significance has traditionally been overemphasized. The theory has been used to explain the differences between two of the main moral pedagogical models depending on which of these cognitive systems is emphasised. The proponents of character-based models emphasize the ability to feel empathy, solidarity and group affiliation whereas the proponents of reason-based models emphasize the ability to think rationally and apply normative principles (cf. Greene 2007, 63; Graham, Haidt & Rimm-Kaufman 2008, 271; Cushman & Young 2009, 18). Researchers have considered this a paradigm shift within moral psychology (Maxwell & Narvaez, 2013, 271), but educationalists' interest has so far been limited and often restricted to harsh critique. An interpretation, following Steutel and Carr (1999), could be that the “differences between conceptions of moral education are nothing if not philosophical” in combination with a reluctance to accept “modern psychological attempts to derive moral educational conclusions from quasi-empirical research” (p. 3). In this article, we analyse the critical approach to moral psychology raised by educationalists and propose an alternative where we believe moral psychology can inform moral education.In this paper, we will discuss two educational approaches to the new paradigm of moral psychology. Initially, we will consider the proponents of a critical approach, where the influence of moral psychology on educational practice, generally is dismissed because of semantic or methodological reasons (see: Musschenga, 2008, 2013; Kristjánsson, 2013, 2016; Maxwell & Narvaez, 2013; Haste, 2013). Then, we will consider an adaptive approach, where it is possible to explore both sematic and methodological issues in relation to the new paradigm in moral psychology (Norgren Hansson & Lindström, 2020). Finally, we discuss the limitations and benefits of a psychologically informed moral education and which consequences this would have on the pedagogical practice.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Using interactive tools and teaching methods to prepare teacher students for the task of conveying basic values
- 2016
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Ingår i: EDULEARN16 Proceedings. - Valencia : IATED Academy. - 9788460888604 ; , s. 7197-7201
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Generally, teachers are expected to convey certain basic values to their pupils in addition to the task of mediating knowledge. These values differ between different countries and may be either implicitly taken for granted within the educational system or explicitly established in regulatory documents. In light of this aspect of the teacher profession, we take it to be an important ingredient in the teacher education to prepare teacher students for the task of conveying such basic values. The present paper focuses on pedagogical challenges in relation to this task. In order to investigate the evaluative profiles of the teacher students and develop this aspect of the teacher education, we have worked according to a model with three distinct phases. (1) A survey was designed, using interactive tools and deliberately choosing questions in relation to (a) the task provided by The Swedish National Agency for Education (SNAE) of conveying a set of basic values, and (b) more extensive international studies. (2) Students were invited to answer the survey, where they received direct feedback, providing the basis for problematizing and discussing their evaluations in relation to alternative views. In addition their answers provided information for us to map their evaluative profile. (3) The evaluative profile wasin turn put in relation to the basic values of their future profession and international research. Hence the students were engaged in creating a substantial part of the study material of the course used as apoint of departure for critical analysis and discussion, making the students aware of their own evaluative profile and alternative points of view. We believe that such an increased awareness of one’s own evaluative profile is one prerequisite to develop a professional attitude to conveying both individual and social values in the teacher’s pedagogical practice and meet the requirements from SNAE and the challenges of evaluatively diverse teaching environments. In this paper we present our method and explain how it can be used as a general model for working with values in the teacher education.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Using interactive tools and teaching methods to prepare teacher students for the task of conveying basic values
- 2016
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Ingår i: EDULEARN16 Proceedings. - Valencia : IATED Academy. - 9788460888604
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Generally, teachers are expected to convey certain basic values to their pupils in addition to the task of mediating knowledge. These values differ between different countries and may be either implicitly taken for granted within the educational system or explicitly established in regulatory documents. In Sweden the curriculum for the upper secondary school states that “[e]ach and everyone working in the school should… encourage respect for the intrinsic value of each person and the environment we all share […] this is to be achieved by nurturing in the individual a sense of justice, generosity, tolerance and responsibility” (The Swedish National Agency for Education (SNAE) 2012). In light of this aspect of the teacher profession, we take it to be an important ingredient in the teacher education to prepare teacher students for the task of conveying such basic values. The present paper focuses on challenges in relation to this task.As researchers and teachers in the Swedish teacher education we have had the opportunity to address the value-conveying task of the teacher profession in both research and education. In addressing this task, the typical evaluative profile of the teacher students has turned out to be an interesting challenge. According to previous studies, Swedes in general (Inglehart 2015) including Swedish teacher students (Authors 2016a), tend to embrace individualist values and reject more social values. This kind of individualist evaluative profile is potentially problematic in relation to the task of conveying basic values, since it typically comes with a tendency to view values as a private matter, something that the school should not interfere with (Authors 2016b).In order to investigate the evaluative profiles of the teacher students and develop this aspect of the teacher education, we have worked according to a model with three distinct phases.(1) A survey was constructed, using interactive tools such as Mentimeter and Lime Survey, deliberately choosing questions in relation to (a) the task provided by SNAE of conveying a set of basic values, and (b) relevant international studies (cf. Inglehart & Baker 2000). (2) Students were invited to answer the survey, where they received direct feedback, providing the basis for problematizing and discussing their evaluations in relation to alternative views. In addition their answers provided information for us to map their evaluative profile. (3) The evaluative profile was in turn put in relation to the basic values of their future profession and international research. Hence the students were engaged in creating a substantial part of the study material of the course, used as a point of departure for critical analysis and discussion, making the students aware of their own evaluative profile and alternative points of view. We believe that such an increased awareness of one’s own evaluative profile is one prerequisite to develop a professional attitude to conveying both individual and social values in the teacher’s pedagogical practice and meet the requirements from SNAE and the challenges of a multicultural teaching environment. Our teaching method has also resulted in research which has been used in order to further develop the content of the course (Authors 2016a; 2016b). In this paper we present our method and explain how it can be used as a general model for working with values in the teacher education.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Wayfinding Through Disrupting Controversies in the Religious Education Classroom: Teachers’ Views
- 2021
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Ingår i: Education in the North. - Aberdeen. - 0424-5512 .- 2398-0184. ; 28:1, s. 68-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Controversial issues are a teaching challenge that can either be accepted and pedagogically grasped by the teacher, or repressed. However, there is no generally accepted definition of ‘controversial issues’ in the literature. Most definitions contain behavioural, epistemic and political elements. Hence, controversial issues are topics about which individuals tend to disagree, about which individuals tend to hold conflicting explanations, and about which individuals create solutions based on different values (Cooling, 2012; Hand, 2008; Ljunggren et al., 2015; Stradling, 1984). We collected critical incidents (Flanagan, 1954) from teachers working in the north of Sweden in an Indigenous language zone. We found that the teachers do not consider an given issue as controversial per se, but rather they see controversiality as created in the specific classroom context. For example, one teacher expressed this as follows: “a controversial issue is created through the students in the classroom and what backgrounds they have.” Globalisation and refugee flows have created classrooms with students from the North and South allowing more issues to be perceived as controversial than earlier when school was more homogeneous. In this paper, we problematise the teachers’ construction of critical issue incidents.
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- Lindström, Niclas, 1974-, et al.
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Which values are reproduced within the swedish educational system?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri / The Estonian Theological Journal. - Tartu : Estonian Theological Society. - 1406-6564. ; 69:1, s. 49-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using the World Values Survey (WVS) as a background the paper discusses a tension between the general evaluative outlook of Swedish teacher students and the educational values established by The Swedish National Agency for Education (SNAE). According to the results from WVS, which maps evaluative differences between approximately 80 countries in the world, Sweden stands out as a country that rejects traditional values and embraces so called secular self-expression values. However, the values established by SNAE include both traditional values, such as “sharing a common cultural heritage”, and secular self-expression values, such as “individual freedom and integrity”. Against this background we conducted a survey of 179 Swedish teacher students in order to investigate the relation between their evaluative outlook and the values they are supposed to convey to their pupils as established by SNAE. The result of the survey indicates that these students do not differ in any significant respect from the Swedish population in general as regards secular vs traditional evaluations. The fact that the traditional values emphasized by SNAE seem to be scarcely represented among the teacher students, makes questionable whether they will be present in their future teaching. On the assumptions that there are important educational values among the traditional as well as the secular self-expression ones, and that values are reproduced within an educational system, we argue that there is reason to take the imbalance in the evaluative outlook of the students seriously.
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- Lindström, Stefan B, 1974-, et al.
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Computer-Aided Evaluation of Blood Vessel Geometry From Acoustic Images
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of ultrasound in medicine. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0278-4297 .- 1550-9613. ; 37:4, s. 1025-1031
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A method for computer-aided assessment of blood vessel geometries based on shape-fitting algorithms from metric vision was evaluated. Acoustic images of cross sections of the radial artery and cephalic vein were acquired, and medical practitioners used a computer application to measure the wall thickness and nominal diameter of these blood vessels with a caliper method and the shape-fitting method. The methods performed equally well for wall thickness measurements. The shape-fitting method was preferable for measuring the diameter, since it reduced systematic errors by up to 63% in the case of the cephalic vein because of its eccentricity.
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- Lindström, Åke, et al.
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Movement and migration in a changing world
- 2014
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Ingår i: Animal movement across scales. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780191785696 ; , s. 36-50
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- Nilsson, Anna, et al.
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The effect of climate change on partial migration - the blue tit paradox
- 2006
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Ingår i: Global Change Biology. - : Wiley. - 1354-1013. ; 12:10, s. 2014-2022
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change has proven to affect various aspects of the migration of birds. In response to milder winters making the habitat more profitable and increasing the survival of residents, the migratory fraction of partially migratory populations has been predicted to decline. We studied the blue tit Parus caeruleus, a common partial migrant in southern Sweden. The numbers migrating at Falsterbo, a migratory passage site in SW Sweden, has increased during the last decades, in parallel with increasing winter and annual temperatures. Migration data from Falsterbo were compared with yearly indices of the size of the breeding population as estimated by the Swedish National Bird Monitoring Programme. Over the study period 1975-2004, also the breeding population has increased in size. The proportion of blue tits migrating each year did not change over the study period, or possibly even increased slightly, which is in contrast to how climate change has been predicted to influence populations containing both migratory and resident individuals. The most important factors determining the intensity of blue tit migration in a given year was the size of an important winter food source, the beech mast crop (more migrants at lower crops) and the size of the breeding population (more migrants at higher densities).
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- Norgren Hansson, Mimmi, 1989-
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Berättelser om omsorg : omsorgsetikens kritiska potential i skolans värdeförmedlingsuppdrag
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- From a care ethics perspective, this thesis aims to discuss and conceptualise children’s experiences of care in Swedish compulsory school. I initiate an ethical discussion focusing on the theoretical core of care ethics and exploring how the framework can be used and developed within the aforementioned educational context. The thesis consists of two empirical and two theoretical articles. In the empirical articles, a qualitative approach is employed to interview sixth-grade children about their experiences giving and receiving care within peer relationships in school. The theoretical articles explore the conditions of values education in Swedish schools and the application of the care ethics framework in the context of new moral psychological research. Article I, “Dissonance between liberal and conservative function: an analysis of values education in Swedish schools”, underscores the significance of contextualisation in analyses of values education, emphasising the intricate interplay between societal values and those imparted within educational contexts. It critically evaluates existing theoretical frameworks and approaches, highlighting the need to disentangle values from function and navigate dissonance within diverse value systems. In article II, “Caring narratives from Swedish compulsory school”, a care ethics perspective is employed to analyse caring narratives from pupils in sixth grade, revealing the dynamic roles of caregivers and recipients of care in shaping a reactive care narrative. Partiality’s pivotal role in care dynamics is explored in article III, “The partial care”, stressing its impact on peer relationships in school environments. Article IV, “What can Moral Psychology Contribute to the Understanding of an Ethics of Care?”, delves into recent developments in moral psychology, challenging the care ethics understanding of moral reasoning by acknowledging the connection between rapid emotional responses and deliberate rational thinking. It connects these psychological insights with the ethics of care, exploring the relationship between intuitive acts of natural care and deliberate choices of ethical care in a moral pedagogical context. In synthesising these themes, my thesis contributes to a relational understanding of values education and situates the ethics of care framework within the realm of education. It offers a novel perspective on the interrelationships between values education, critical Religious Education, and the feminist framework of care ethics, enriching the discourse within these subdisciplines.
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- Norgren-Hansson, Mimmi, 1989-, et al.
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Can Moral Psychology Inform Moral Education? : Some Critical Perspectives
- 2020
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Ingår i: Conference Proceedings. - Florence : Filodritto Editore. - 9788885813878 ; , s. 475-480
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As teachers we frequently face situations where we are expected to make moral judgements and act upon them as a part of our pedagogical practices. This is one reason why practitioners and researchers tend to agree on that teaching is an essentially moral practice. However, according to recent development within moral psychology, we often make judgements based on emotionally driven intuitions and afterwards make up reasons to explain them. This provides a challenge for the traditional views of moral education. Thus, the overall aim of this paper is to present and critically discuss what the new findings of moral psychology can contribute to moral education. Initially we will present the theory and argue why it seems to provide an important contribution to our understanding of the normative dimension of education. Finally, however, we will use philosophical method in order to critically examine of some of the core features of the model and discuss which consequences it has to, for instance, aspects of care which is inherent in an educational context.
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