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- Anderström, Helena, 1979-
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Lärares samtal om etik : Sociala representationer av etikundervisning på mellanstadiet inom ramen för de samhällsorienterande ämnena
- 2017
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study draws attention to how teachers view and reason about ethics education in social studies. Based on the Social representation theory, the study aim to answer questions about the content and themes which are expressed in the teachers' conversations about ethics education. The study also wants to emphasize the communicative resources used by participants when they create a common understanding of ethics education.The study's empirical data consists of six focus groups interviews with teachers working with student in school year 4-6. Teachers in three teams (a total of 13 teachers) met at two occasions to talk about ethics education in social studies.The result from the analysis is presented in three parts. The first part draws attention to teachers' social representations of ethics education in social studies. Four social representations were found and they consist of teachers' ideas about content, methods and strategies, and the purpose and goals and difficulties in ethics education. The second part shows that the teachers express three social representations of how ethics education is related to, religious education, social studies and the school's overall mission. The analysis shows that ethics education is an important part of the religious education but also other subjects in social studies and the school's overall mission. The third part draws attention to the communicative resources that teachers use to create a common understanding of ethics education. Examples of communicative resources used in the conversations is teaching materials, national tests, the curriculum and their own teacher education.
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- Buchardt, Mette, 1969, et al.
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Epistemologies of Religious Education – Examples from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: The 13th Nordic Conference on Religious Education, Tartu, Estonia, 15-18 June.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- “Epistemologies of Religious Education – Examples from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden” General subject didactics in the Nordic countries has developed in relation to teacher education and the need to bring questions about teaching and learning closer to specific subject‐content areas. The discussions started at slightly different times in the different countries, for instance in the 1970s in Norway and in the 1980s in Sweden (Kroksmark, 1989; Ongstad, 2006). However, at that time religious education was already an academic field in the faculties of theology in many of the Nordic countries, namely as religionspedagogik[k](e.g. Osbeck & Lied, 2012). Since then the development of RE and its current position have been rather different in the separate countries, but also the conditions within the same country have varied largely. The aim of this symposium is to examine different conditions for knowledge re/production concerning Religious Education in the Nordic countries and discuss how disciplines work as frames for ongoing developments of knowledge, primarily research contributions. There are several academic disciplines related to RE, and an interesting question is of course how these scholarly communities influence RE. What consequences does it have for the contribution of knowledge – e.g. for research questions asked, examined and answered – if the study is done in history of religion, comparative religion, sociology of religion, theology, pedagogy of religion in a faculty of theology, sociology, communication studies, or psychology or in the educational sciences, and thus in e.g. sociology, history, psychology or philosophy of education? What does it mean for the discussion of quality in the field and the direction of the development that the research area is that varied? And how does that affect the applied didactics of religion? The presentation will draw on current examples from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and be discussed in relation to different theories of re/construction of knowledge.
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- Buchardt, Mette, et al.
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“Outer space” as Cold War spirituality : Students’ drawings and texts on “life questions” in 1980s welfare-state Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: IJHE Bildungsgeschichte. - : Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. - 2192-4295. ; 12:2, s. 138-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the post-WWII space race, images of “outer space” circulated globally. Produced in late 1980s welfare-state Sweden, “beings from other planets” and artifacts related to “outer space” pops up from an archived data material consisting of 2nd to 3rd grade students’ drawings and written text. The material was created in an education development project aiming at generating knowledge about “children’s life questions” and making them part of curriculum. Drawing on history of emotions methodologies, the article explores which role “outer space” occupies in the images and narratives and what this can tell us about the transformations of the religious and spiritual and the emotional economy of late Cold War welfare-state childhoods.
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- Carlsson, David
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Vad är religionslärarkunskap? : En diskursanalys av trepartssamtal i lärarutbildningen
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- From an overall perspective, the aim of this thesis is to investigate teachers’ knowledge in relation to Swedish teacher education and to the school subject religious education (RE), by exploring constructions of essential knowledge for an RE teacher. Two research questions are in focus: What RE teacher knowledge is discursively constructed in teacher education supervision trialogue and in interviews with student teachers, teacher educators from school and teacher educators from university? How are those discourses constructed in supervision trialogue between student teachers, teacher educators from school and teacher educators from university? The results are based on empirical material consisting of six observations of teacher education supervision trialogues (three-way conferences) in RE and interviews with RE student teachers, RE teacher educators from upper secondary school and RE teacher educators from university, both before and after each trialogue. This empirical material is worked through and analysed using discourse analysis that mainly draws on the perspectives of Norman Fairclough. The findings give rise to an order of discourse regarding essential RE teacher knowledge. Three discourses are constructed. The dominant discourse is called “Knowing one’s subject” and refers to an RE teacher’s capacity to master the content, problematise it and both know and teach the content in an up-to-date manner. The second discourse is entitled “Knowing and meeting the pupils”. Within this discourse, it is important for a teacher in RE to be familiar with, and use, the pupils’ different pre-understandings and to communicate with the pupils in the RE classroom. The third discourse is called “Knowing oneself”. This discourse highlights the importance of being objective, reflective and being a leader. Moreover, the analysis shows that the discourses are primarily constructed as complementary in relation to one another. There seems to be a common agreement among students and teacher educators about the fact that RE teachers need to know the subject, know the pupils and know themselves. However, discursive conflicts can arise when discourses are initiated in an antagonistic manner. These RE conflicts imply neither consensus nor hegemony. Antagonistic discourses reflect aspects of dominance mainly in relation to discourses, i.e. RE teacher knowledge, but also in relation to positions.
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- Dalevi, Sören, et al.
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Kyrkopedagogik i Munkfors : En utvärdering av ett samarbetsprojekt skola-kyrka
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Svenska kyrkor och kyrkogårdar bär ofta på ett unikt arv av bygdens kulturella och religiösa historia. Men frågan är om och i så fall hur svenska skolelever kan tillgodogöra sig kyrkorum?Under åren 2009 till 2011 arbetade Thomas Pfitzinger-Drewes och ett arbetslag i Svenska kyrkan, Munkfors församling i Värmland, med att inhämta kunskap om och omsätta den tyska kyrkopedagogiska metoden till svenska förhållanden. De arbetade kontinuerligt i nära samarbete med skolor i Munkfors kommun. Kyrkopedagogikens målsättning är att ge människor möjlighet att få en relation till och förståelse av kyrkorummet utan att för den skull behöva bekänna sig till någon tro. I den här boken beskriver Sören Dalevi och Christina Osbeck hur framförallt elever på de skolor som deltog upplevde dessa kyrkopedagogiska visningar men också lärares och skolledares perspektiv synliggörs.I ett avslutande kapitel diskuteras projektet i relation till den svenska skolans läroplan. Erfarenheterna från projektet, exempelvis om förarbetets betydelse för deltagarnas upplevelse, är intressanta att uppmärksamma både då det gäller studiebesöksmetodik generellt och för skolans relation till andra trossamfund.
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Didactic classroom studies - A potential research direction.
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Genom konkreta studier som sätter klassrumsarbetet i fokus visar en grupp didaktikforskare vid Göteborgs universitet hur klassrummets händelser och möjligheter ramas in av givna förutsättningar och på så sätt får olika didaktiska konsekvenser för undervisning och lärande i olika ämnen. I sina texter undersöker skribenterna klassrummens karaktär på olika utbildningsnivåer och i skiftande ämnen såsom matematik, svenska, samhälls- och naturvetenskap samt hem- och konsumentkunskap. Redaktörerna diskuterar och analyserar betydelsen av klassrumsstudier i ett övergripande och framåtsyftande kapitel där de skissar denna orientering som en möjlig forskningsinriktning. Bokens innehåll sätts även i ett internationellt och historiskt sammanhang. Författarna i Didactic classroom studies har ambitionen att på ett praktiknära sätt visa på styrkan i klassrumsstudiernas bidrag till didaktisk forskning. Samtidigt vill de med utgångspunkt i sitt empiriska material bidra till en vidare utveckling av just didaktiska klassrumsstudier som forskningsinriktning.
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Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation
- 2017
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The book argues that teaching children to engage with nature is crucial if they are to develop a true understanding of sustainability and climate issues, and claims that sustainability education is much more successful when pupils are treated as moral agents rather than being passive subjects of testing and assessment. The collection brings together a range of fresh and creative perspectives on how issues around ethical literacies can be elaborated and expanded with regard to democratic sustainability education. The use of children´s books in teaching about sustainability is carefully explored, as are the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of environmental education. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of sustainability education.
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- Flygare, Erik, et al.
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Utvärdering av metoder mot mobbning
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna utvärdering ger besked om insatser och arbetssätt som effektivt förebygger och åtgärdar mobbning. Utvärderingen är unik genom att den omfattar stora mängder data, både kvalitativa och kvantitativa från 39 skolor, att enskilda individers utsatthet följs upp vid tre tillfällen och att den omfattar flera program samtidigt.Resultaten visar bland annat att olika insatser har olika effekt för pojkar och flickor samt olika effekt beroende på om mobbningen är social eller fysisk. Den visar också att ingen enskild insats har dramatiskt positiva effekter. För att en skola ska lyckas förebygga och åtgärda mobbning krävs ett systematiskt arbete och en kombination av insatser. Åtta namngivna program som används mot mobbning har ingått i utvärderingen: Farstametoden, Friends, Lions Quest, Olweusprogrammet, SET - Social och emotionell träning, Skolkomet, Skolmedling samt Stegvis. I utvärderingens fristående metodfördjupning Utvärdering av metoder mot mobbning. Metodappendix och bilagor till rapport 353, (endast publicerad som pdf ) redovisar forskarna utförligt utvärderingens design och redogör för tillvägagångssättet vid datainsamling och analys.
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- Forsberg, Camilla, 1983-
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Students’ Perspectives on Bullying
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the present thesis was to listen to, examine and conceptualise students’ perspectives on bullying. Students’ perspectives have not been commonly heard in research and less qualitative research has been conducted. This study contributes with students’ perspectives on bullying using semi-structured interviews with students from fourth-to eighth grade.This thesis includes four studies. The aim with paper I was to investigate how bystander actions in bullying situations and reasons behind these actions were articulated. Paper II was a comparison study between Sweden and US, focused on how students articulate and discuss what factors influence students’ decisions to defend or not defend victims when witnessing bullying. The aim in Paper III was to study how students themselves discuss, reason and make sense of how and why bullying processes emerges in their social worlds. In paper IV the aim was to study how junior high school girls discuss and understand bullying. Findings reveal that students’ reactions as bystanders to bullying depend on how they define the situation. Explanations to the emergence of bullying were understood through a complex social ordering of belonging process. Students position themselves and others in striving to belong, and when defining victims as responsible for bullying. Social norms and negotiation of identities were also discussed among the students. Students discussed how gender and a normative peer structure, where a pressure to fit in, interlinked with how they understood bullying.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Challenging the concept of ethical literacy for sustainable development (ESD): Storytelling as a method within sustainability didactics
- 2015
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Ingår i: 8th WEEC World Environmental Education Congress, Planet and People - how can they develop together?, Gothenburg 29th 0f June - 2nd of July http://weec2015.org/programme-2/abstract-database.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Challenging the concept of ethical literacy in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): storytelling as a method within sustainability didactics Introduction: Ethical literacy seems, within ESD, to be used in various ways, some more general, others morally specific, pressing individuals´ responsibility. The aim of this paper is to analyze the presuppositions for developing narrative methods which focus the vision of a good society without compromising with individual integrity. Objectives: ESD highlights teaching and learning related to environmental, economic and social dimensions where value issues and ethics are discussed in relation to global challenges of various kinds. Often, however, the ethical themes seem to be polarized between two extremes: either holistic expressions in general terms of “responsibility”, or morally pressing and pushing expressions of responsibility of individuals as citizens of the society - and the world. In the former case, no one specific person seems to be addressed, in the second each one of us is called for action. In neither case the concept of sustainability is problematized with regard to the variation of interpretations that express different agendas. Both extremes seem further to presuppose that ethics primarily has to do with moral judgments of right and wrong, rather than elaborating the concept of a good society and a good world. Moreover, while, according to the first extreme, no individual person seems to be called to do anything specific with regard to the striving for a socially sustainable world, the second seems to express demands of individuals´ action of competence and responsibility for making the world a better place for humans generally. Are there possibilities for the development of ESD which highlight global challenges with a focus on justice and equity without either, as within post-political romanticism, pretending that social sustainability is a non-controversial ethical goal, or, as within liberal individualistic approaches, claiming that no one may escape from the demand of action competence which is claimed to shape the way to make social sustainability come true? Methods: This paper examines critically and constructively, with reference to narrative theory, as well as to communitarian approaches, storytelling as one method to inspire young people to reflect upon what a good society and a good world may be, to catch sight of visions of a sustainable world and of challenges which exist between “now” and “then” – a method that, at the same time, may preserve respect for individuals´ integrity. Results: The examination highlights narrative structures and ethically relevant contents which may contribute to new strategies for the development of holistic and integrative narrative methods, forming approaches for sustainability didactics. Conclusion: There is a need for further research regarding the analysis of the frequent references of "ethics" and "ethical dimensions" within ESD-related contexts, and one highly relevant and constructive area for this research concerns narrative methods related to sustainability didactics.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Challenging the concept of ethical literacy in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): storytelling as a method within sustainability didactics
- 2015
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Ingår i: Abstract book, NERA Gothenburg 2015-03-04 - 2015-03-06.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ESD highlights teaching and learning related to environmental, economic and social dimensions where value issues and ethics are discussed in relation to global challenges of various kinds. Often, however, the ethical themes seem to be polarized between two extremes: either holistic expressions in general terms of “responsibility”, or morally pressing and pushing expressions of responsibility of individuals as citizens of the society - and the world. In the former case, no one specific person seems to be addressed, in the second each one of us is called for action. In neither case the concept of sustainability is problematized with regard to the variation of interpretations that express different agendas. Both extremes seem further to presuppose that ethics primarily has to do with moral judgments of right and wrong, rather than elaborating the concept of a good society and a good world. Moreover, while, according to the first extreme, no individual person seems to be called to do anything specific with regard to the striving for a socially sustainable world, the second seems to express demands of individuals´ action of competence and responsibility for making the world a better place for humans generally. Are there possibilities for the development of ESD which highlight global challenges with a focus on justice and equity without either, as within post-political romanticism, pretending that social sustainability is a non-controversial ethical goal, or, as within liberal individualistic approaches, claiming that no one may escape from the demand of action competence which is claimed to shape the way to make social sustainability come true? This paper examines critically and constructively, with reference to narrative theory, as well as to communitarian approaches, storytelling as one method to inspire young people to reflect upon what a good society and a good world may be, to catch sight of visions of a sustainable world and of challenges which exist between “now” and “then” – a method that, at the same time, may preserve respect for individuals´ integrity.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Challenging the concept of ethical literacy within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): storytelling as a method within sustainability didactics
- 2018
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Ingår i: Education 3 - 13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0300-4279 .- 1475-7575. ; 46:2, s. 133-142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ethical literacy seems to be used, within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), in various ways, some more general and others morally specific, emphasising individuals’ responsibility. The overarching aim of this paper is to present some prerequisites for the development of narrative methods that focus on the vision of a good society without compromising individual integrity. Is it possible to develop ESD in a ways that highlight global challenges with a focus on justice and equity without either, as within post-political romanticism, pretending that social sustainability is a non-controversial ethical goal, or, as within liberal individualistic approaches, claiming that no one may escape from the demands of action competence, which, it is claimed, paves the way for making social sustainability a reality? With reference to some threads in narrative theory and by an analysis of six children’s books, this paper critically and constructively examines storytelling as one method to inspire young people to reflect upon what a good society and a good world might be, to catch sight of visions of a sustainable world and of the differences between how things are and how things could be – a method that may also preserve respect for individuals’ integrity.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Editorial 2018:3
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Ingår i: Nordidactica - Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. - 2000-9879. ; 2018:3
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Editorial 2018:4
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Ingår i: Nordidactica - Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. - 2000-9879. ; :4
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- Franck, Olof, 1958
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Editorial Nordidactica 2017:4
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Ingår i: Nordidactica. - Karlstad : CSD Karlstad. - 2000-9879. ; :2017:4, s. i-ii
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Ingår i: Nordidactica. - Karlstad : CSD Karlstad. - 2000-9879. ; :2018:2, s. i-ii
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Inledning
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Ingår i: Franck, O., Osbeck, C. & von Brömssen, K. (red), Religioner, livsåskådningar och etik: För lärare 4-9 och gymnasiet. - Malmö : Gleerups. - 9789151109169 ; , s. 13-16
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- Franck, Olof, et al.
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Inledning
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Ingår i: Religioner, livsåskådningar och etik. - : Gleerups. - 9789151109169 ; , s. 13-16
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Preface
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Ingår i: Franck, O., & Osbeck, C. (Eds.). Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319490090
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Religioner, livsåskådningar och etik. För lärare årskurs 4 - 6 (red)
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att undervisa i ämnet religionskunskap är både spännande och roligt. Det är ett ämne där lärare och elever kan mötas i samtal om tro, mening, rätt och orätt, gott och ont. Det är också ett ämne där elevers erfarenheter är viktiga att ta vara på. Alla människor funderar över etiska och existentiella frågor och för religionskunskapsundervisningen utgör de en nödvändig grund. Samtidigt finns i nuvarande kursplan ett centralt innehåll för undervisningen, samt kunskapskrav utifrån vilka elevers ämneskunskaper ska bedömas. Detta ställer krav på en strukturerad, vederhäftig och klok undervisning. Det centrala innehållets rubriker i kursplanen är inte förhandlingsbara, men lärare har frihet att planera och genomföra sin undervisning på olika sätt. Det är en frihet som är viktig att ta vara på. Samtidigt ställer denna frihet krav på att man som lärare är påläst och försöker följa vad som händer i aktuell debatt och forskning. Den här boken är tänkt att vara en källa till att utveckla de ämnesteoretiska kunskaperna i religionskunskap. Boken är uppbyggd kring de fyra delarna i det centrala innehållet: Religioner och andra livsåskådningar, Religion och samhälle, Identitet och livsfrågor och Etik. Författarna är alla ämnesteoretiker, verksamma i högskole- och universitetsutbildning och forskning. Genom att presentera sina ämnesteoretiska perspektiv på hur det centrala innehållet kan uppfattas, vilka frågor som kan vara viktiga att uppmärksamma och vilka forskningsperspektiv som kan bidra till en djupare och mer dynamisk förståelse, ger de en grund för hur man som lärare kan utveckla sina ämneskunskaper.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Teaching and learning Ethics at intermediate stage in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nationell Ämnesdidaktisk konferens (NÄD) i Göteborg den 9 -11 april.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports findings from two research projects in Religious Education (RE), one ethnographic study in three Swedish school classes in grade six and one textbook study focussing on intermediate stage. Previous research indicates that ethics is one of the areas that attend least attention in RE. The reasons for this we do not know. The character of teaching, teaching tools and pupil responses in ethics at intermediate stage is almost not researched. This paper starts by discussing important ethical competences of tweens. The Swedish syllabus of RE is here related to other European syllabuses and to ethical perspectives and theories. On this base we report findings from the ethnographical study, and its questionnaire with one larger ethical task given to the pupils in the beginning of the academic year as well as in the end of the second term. Skills which seem to be present to lesser and larger degree are accounted. Perspectives that seem to be more present in the end of the academic year - which could have been developed during the academic year - are emphasised. In relation to these findings we pay attention to available and absent perspectives in some textbooks and some lessons in ethics. The paper is ended with an overarching discussion about to which degree the current perspectives of the pupils can be related to offered and absent perspectives of the textbooks and the lessons. What kind of offer of meaning, in the field of ethics, would the pupils need in order to develop such an ethical competence that the questionnaires indicate as present in a lesser degree? This question may also be seen as relevant to research concerning challenges related to an education for sustainable development.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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Teaching and learning in Ethics at Intermediate Stage in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Konferensbidrag. ECER 1 - 5 september 2014 i Porto. "The Past, Present and Future of Educational Research in Europe"..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract Teaching and learning Ethics at intermediate stage in Sweden This paper reports findings from two research projects in Religious Education (RE), one ethnographic study in three Swedish school classes in grade six and one textbook study focussing on intermediate stage. Previous research indicates that ethics is one of the areas that attend least attention in RE. The reasons for this we do not know. The character of teaching, teaching tools and pupil responses in ethics at intermediate stage is almost not researched. This paper starts by discussing important ethical competences of tweens. The Swedish syllabus of RE is here related to other European syllabuses and to ethical perspectives and theories. On this base we report findings from the ethnographical study, and its questionnaire with one larger ethical task given to the pupils in the beginning of the academic year as well as in the end of the second term. Skills which seem to be present to lesser and larger degree are accounted. Perspectives that seem to be more present in the end of the academic year – which could have been developed during the academic year – are emphasised. In relation to these findings we pay attention to available and absent perspectives in some textbooks and some lessons in ethics. The paper is ended with an overarching discussion about to which degree the current perspectives of the pupils can be related to offered and absent perspectives of the textbooks and the lessons. What kind of offer of meaning, in the field of ethics, would the pupils need in order to develop such an ethical competence that the questionnaires indicate as present in a lesser degree? This question may also be seen as relevant to research concerning challenges related to an education for sustainable development. In the first project three Swedish school classes in grade 6 have been followed for one academic year, autumn 2011until spring 2012. The three classes have been located in different schools and housing areas and the focus of the observations has been “social studies” – a knowledge area which includes history, geography, civics, and religious education. The main interest, however, has been RE. Besides observations the field work has included interviews with teachers and pupils as well as collection of material used and produced in the classroom practices. The study has also included a sort of “pre test-post test design” where the same questionnaires focusing central themes in the curriculum of RE in Sweden have been used. The overarching aim of the project is to describe changes and developments in expressed perspectives of the pupils in relation to teaching and potential learning during lessons, i.e. collectively constructed meaning. In the second project, textbooks in RE for grades 4 – 6 and 7 – 9, respectively, is analyzed with a focus on how the wordings in the new curriculum, falling under the heads of core content and knowledge requirements, are treated and highlighted within relevant parts. Ethics in RE in Sweden includes teaching about ethical concepts and theoretically founded perspectives as well as specific questions concerning normative arguments and virtue ethical reasoning. The overarching aim of this project is to map some details and, perhaps, patterns regarding how ethical issues, anchored in the new curriculum and its syllabus for RE, are presented and elucidated in textbooks used within RE. Both projects may give important contributions to common research regarding ethics education for grades 4 – 6 in Swedish RE. The ethnographic study and the intertextual study both highlight important dimensions with possible relevance also in relation to a diskcussion concerning ethics education in general.
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- Franck, Olof, 1958, et al.
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What may be learnt in ethics? Varieties of conceptions of ethical competence to be taught in compulsory school
- 2015
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Ingår i: The 5th NoFa-Conference (Nordisk Fagdidaktisk konferens), Helsinki, Finland, 27-29 May.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the paper is to present the framework of this newly started project and report some initial findings. Questions about a compulsory school teaching ethics has regained urgency in Sweden since national tests are given in ethics. Every fourth child in grade six and nine are evaluated every year as having/not having approved knowledge of ethics, and one can ask if it is reasonable to be forced to undertake a test assessing your skills in ethics and risk being evaluated as not passing. This raises the question of what constitutes relevant knowledge in this field, a question which to a large extent has been absent in research. The purpose of the project is to identify and elucidate varieties of conceptions of ethical competence and critically analyse and discuss them, in relation to each other and in relation to ethical theory, as potential educational content in compulsory school.
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- FranzénJohnson, Anna, 1975, et al.
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Discourses onreligion inresearch thatfocuses onstudents’ perspectives
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Religious Education. - 1442-018X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the aim is twofold: firstly, to explore, through a systematic literature review, what discourses on religion may be identified in previous research that focuses on students’ perspectives, and secondly, to discuss this in relation to reseocrarch concerning challenges and opportunities in Scandinavian religious education (RE) and classroom negotiations, which is presented as a background to and scientific landscape for the study. Seven dis-courses relating to students’ understanding of religionhave been identified in the text sam-ple from the systematic review, religion as: threatening, a relic, needing to be tolerated, truth claims, plastic, a source of existential curiosity,and security and comfort. The find-ings show how these discourses together constitute a broader repertoire of discourses on religion than can be found in the Scandinavian RE classroom research presented as a frame for the study, especially when taking into account current orders of discourse and domi-nance structures. As stressed by discourse theory and sociocultural perspectives on learn-ing, having access to broad repertoires of discourses on religion provides a basis for more nuanced ways of thinking about religion. It is vital that teachers are aware of this and can challenge dominant discourses and broaden existing repertoires. An important step in such a direction is an awareness of discourses on religion, such as the seven presented here, which may potentially be present in the classroom, even in practices other than the ones these discourses emanated from.
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- Henriksson Persson, Anna
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Demokratiuppdrag och demokratiska arbetsformer i grundskolans mellanår : En demokratididaktisk studie med fokus på SO-undervisning
- 2018
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study deals with the democracy mission of school, in which democratic working methods are a central part. The aim is to contribute with knowledge about how teachers as professional actors construct meaning of and shape to the democracy mission of school. Six teachers working in grades 4-6, have been interviewed on two occasions each, and one social science lesson by each teacher has been observed.The study is based on a social constructionist basis. The teachers are regarded as actors in the construction of the democratic mission of school. The results show different democracy theoretical influences operating in the teachers' constructions, and that the didactic dimensions are complex. The teachers value the democracy mission as important and always present in their everyday practice, but at the same time, it appears to be invisible and implicit. The results can be read as a story that begins in a perceived problem where teachers talk about the democracy mission as diffuse, in competition with other obligations, and associated with different dilemmas. However, when the teachers continue their stories, they start to fill the democracy mission with legitimacy, meaning and content. Examples of possible meanings that emerge are to promote respectful interaction between all persons in school, to offer students influence and choices, to encourage students to develop a willingness to participate in and influence the society and an everyday school practice permeated with democratic values.When the teachers describe the meanings of democratic working methods they talk about establishing formal student participation, non-formalized student participation, methods of work which involve cooperation between the students and the learning processes in which the students gradually develop the ability to exercise influence on their learning.The teachers regard the democratic mission as a matter of concern for all school subjects, but the social sciences are given a particular position in relation to both working methods and content.
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- Holmqvist Lidh, Carina
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Representera och bli representerad : Elever med religiös positionering talar om skolans religionskunskapsundervisning
- 2016
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur kan lärare på bästa sätt möta elever med religiös positionering i religionskunskapsklassrummet? Hur kan undervisningen utformas för att ge religiösa traditioner en framställning som elever med religiös positionering kan acceptera, relatera till och kanske också lära nytt av?Den här religionsdidaktiska studien handlar om hur elever som positionerar sig inom muslimsk, kristen, buddhistisk och judisk tradition talar om skolans religionskunskapsundervisning. Studien berör tre teman. För det första undersöks mötet mellan undervisningsinnehåll och elevernas erfarenheter av sin egen religiösa tradition och tro. För det andra riktas uppmärksamheten mot hur eleverna talar om sina erfarenheter av att vara eller att förväntas vara representant för sin egen tradition i undervisningen. Ett tredje tema handlar om hur eleverna beskriver ramar och förutsättningar för religionskunskapsundervisningen. Intervjumaterialet har analyserats med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys. Resultaten visar bland annat att eleverna har svårt att känna igen och relatera till sin egen tradition i undervisningen. De befarar att undervisningen snarare förstärker än dekonstruerar stereotypa föreställningar om religion och religiöst liv.
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- Jenvén, Hélène, 1963-
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Utsatta elevers maktlöshet : en studie om elevers sociala samvaro som förbättringsarbete i åk 8-9
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to examine how everyday social interactions and relations in a school class in years 8-9 are experienced by pupils and teachers and how they can be understood and improved. The research design is an action research approach and is carried out as a case study involving four teachers and 24 pupils. Four issues are formulated and the teachers and the researcher together suggest how certain problems might be solved, which in turn directs the action process over the period of three school terms. Analytical concepts are used to map and understand pupils’ everyday social relations in terms of peer groups, positions and norms. Eriksson’s (2001) sociological theory on bullying is used to analyze and explain the complexity of a case of bullying.Defined dominating norms that appear to guide the pupils’ social interactions are: (1) You should make room for yourself, be visible and heard, (2) you should have many friends and (3) you should look down on those who study. The everyday social relations are affected by the pupils’ positioning and by the groupings that are formed in the class. Crystalized groups that emerge in the study are: (1) those who make a lot of noise and take up a lot of room, (2) those who study, (3) pupils who are frequently absent, (4) those who feel uncomfortable and (5) those who are outside (a marginalized group). In addition to these findings, three dominating norms among the teachers emerge. These norms guide and affect how the teachers act and think when victimized pupils and their situations are discussed. Teachers’ dominating norms seem to prevail in situations where some pupils are victimized by other pupils in the class. This in turn could contribute to various kinds of moral disengagement on the part of the teachers when dealing with victimizing acts among pupils. From the perspective of the victimized pupils, such a way of acting could be understood as teachers, in their role as “security guarantors”, are unable to prevent the powerlessness of victimized pupils.
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- Larsson, Bengt, 1966-, et al.
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Bringing environmentalism home : Children’s influence on family consumption in the Nordic countries and beyond
- 2010
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Ingår i: Childhood. - : Sage Publications. - 0907-5682 .- 1461-7013. ; 17:1, s. 129-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses children as contributors to sustainable ecological development. The aim of the article is to develop a framework for researching two questions: What are the prerequisites for children to become responsible environmentalists? What actual and potential influence do children have on their family’s consumption? Three theoretical perspectives are elaborated in relation to relevant empirical research: children as cosmopolitan actors and world citizens, children as ‘subjects of responsibilization’ in relation to the discourse on sustainable development and children as actors influencing family negotiations about consumption. The article concludes by suggesting methodological implications that follow from this framework.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Barns existentiell frågor idag - och för 50 år sedan
- 2020
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Ingår i: Årsbok 2020. Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap.. - Lomma : Föreningen Lärare i religionskunskap (FLR). ; , s. 29-39
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lilja, Annika, et al.
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Barns existentiella frågor idag - och för 50 år sedan
- 2020
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Ingår i: Existentiella frågor i barns och ungas liv. - Malmö : Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap (FLR). ; , s. 29-39
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I texten presenteras forskningsprojektet Barn och läroplan. Existentiella frågor och skolans svar. I projektet besvarar barn i årskurs 5 i 10 skolklasser frågor om vad de funderar över. Samma frågor har riktats till barn från och med sent 1960-tal fram till och med 2000-talets början. I den publicerade texten ges exempel på den forskningsmetodik som använts och några jämförande exempel ges med barns svar idag och för 50 år sedan. Exemplen utgör några första mycket preliminära analyser. I forskningsprojektet ingår tillika läroplansanalyser och lärarintervjuer i ett studium av didaktiska förhållningssätt till barns frågor.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Conditions for development of a multidimensional ethical competence through group discussions in fiction-based ethics education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Education 3-13. - : Routledge. - 0300-4279 .- 1475-7575.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on an analysis of Swedish students’ group discussions while taking part in a fiction-based ethics education, this article presents conditions for the development of a multidimensional ethical competence. Four crucial conditions in students’ group discussions are identified: focus on the task, interest in each other’s contributions, knowledge about the object of the ethical analysis and its context, and explorations of the complexity of the human being. The results show that the fiction stories, and the students who act as more capable others, support the development by modelling in different ways; both procedural and substantial knowledge in ethics are required.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Ethical competence – a comparison between the Swedish and the Icelandic curricula and some teachers’ views
- 2018
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Ingår i: Education 3-13. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0300-4279 .- 1475-7575. ; 46:5, s. 506-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to highlight some conceptions of ethical competence identified in interviews with teachers in religious education in Sweden, and within analyses of policy documents in a Swedish and an Icelandic educational context. As a starting point we take seven interviewed teachers’ comments about what they view as important ethical competences for their pupils to have. A comparative analysis of Swedish and Icelandic policy documents with regard to the conceptual understandings of ethical competence is made, as well as a comparison between the policy documents and teachers’ comments. The Icelandic curriculum is chosen because it differs from the Swedish one in a sense relevant to an analysis of the teacher interviews. The analyses imply a tension between theoretical and analytical conceptions of ethical competence and an action competence. Finally, some possible threads to consider in developing a broadened and deepened understanding of ethical competence are outlined.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Etikundervisning och en mångdimensionell etisk kompetens
- 2023
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Ingår i: Etik, berättelser och samtal: att använda skönlitteratur i etikundervisning. - Lund : Gleerups. - 9789151107547 ; , s. 41-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I kapitlet presenteras inledningsvis några typer av etikundervisning som vilar på olika etiska teorier och som därför har olika mål. Delar av dessa olika typer av etikundervisning finns också representerade i den svenska läroplanen. Därefter utvecklas det perspektiv som tas vidare i boken, nämligen vad en mångdimensionell etisk kompetens kan innebära enligt elever och lärare.
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- Lilja, Annika, et al.
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Skolutveckling genom didaktiskt klassrumsarbete i samverkan lärare och forskare
- 2021
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Ingår i: Skolutveckling i teori och praktik. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151102832 ; , s. 283-291
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I detta bokkapitel är ambitionen tvådelad – dels vill vi beskriva en skolutvecklingsmodell för samverkan mellan lärare och forskare och dels vill vi beskriva den undervisningsmodell i etik som lärare och forskare tillsammans utvecklat inom ramen för skolutvecklingsmodellen. Vårt sätt att arbeta i forskningsprojektet EthiCo II Att skärpa den etiska blicken och rösten. En skönlitteraturbaseradetikundervisnings möjlighet och svårigheter, ser vi här som en modell för skolutveckling.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges
- 2023
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Ingår i: British Journal of Religious Education. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0141-6200 .- 1740-7931. ; 45:3, s. 240-250
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers’ insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by analysing interviews with ten teachers. Five of the teachers used a fiction-based ethics education within a research and evaluation project, and five teachers used their ordinary ethics teaching. The analysis shows five different themes, time, the students’ background, safe relations, lesson plans, and fiction, to be crucial for ethics education, in relation to both opportunities and challenges. The analysis shows that ethics is a subject that occupies a special position, giving students an education that points to the world and provides opportunities to encounter and explore important situations,in other words, an education that develops a multidimensional ethical competence.
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963, et al.
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Understanding, acting, verbalizing and persevering - Swedish teachers' perspectives on important ethical competences for students
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Moral Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0305-7240 .- 1465-3877. ; 49:4, s. 512-528
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The delicate question of teaching ethics in compulsory school regained urgency in Sweden in 2013 when national tests were introduced in religious education, of which ethics is a part. In this article, a variety of ethical competences that teachers want their students to develop are presented, based on group interviews with 46 teachers. Grounded theory analyses show four main categories of ethical competence—to understand, to act, to verbalize and to persevere—which furthermore differ in what they are being directed towards. In addition, the categories are interpreted in relation to the ethical voices of Benhabib, Nussbaum, Løgstrup and Singer. The study shows that teachers view ethical competence as a combination of specific competences and certain directions that these competences work in defence of, indicating a broader perspective than the one shown in the national syllabus, which in turn supports previous research emphasizing teachers’ nuanced understanding of ethical concepts.
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- Lilliestam, Anna-Lena, et al.
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Lågstadielärare talar om sin undervisning i de samhällsorienterande ämnena
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordidactica. - Karlstad : CSD Karlstad. - 2000-9879. ; :2020:2, s. 48-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The syllabus for the social study subjects (geography, history, civics, and religious education) in Swedish Lower Primary school prescribes work both with a traditional content, (i.e. maps, the Stone age, who decides in our society, why do we celebrate Christmas) and work to get the pupils to embrace values and norms that are desirable in a democratic society. This study explores the goals thirteen Swedish Lower Primary school teachers express concerning their teaching in geography, history, civics, and religious education and how they balance between aspects of substantive knowledge and the fostering aspects of these subjects. The results are discussed in relation to selective traditions in Swedish school. The teachers express a traditional view of the subjects and there are few indications of the domain-specific abilities required in the syllabus. There are considerable differences between how the teachers value the importance of the different subjects and the different substantive contents within the subjects. This indicates that there also are differences in how they carry through their teaching. There are also differences in how the teachers balance between the substantive and fostering aspects of the subjects. Some teachers stress the importance of working with the substantive content of the subjects, while others express the view that these subjects only consist of the fostering aspects and has no substantive knowledge at all. The analysis shows strong influence from the progressivistic tradition on the teachers’ reasoning. They stress the importance of paying attention to the pupils’ prior experiences and to adjust the teaching to the educational needs of their pupils, especially concerning the work with values and norms. All the teachers want to foster the pupils to embrace democratic values and norms for living together in a classroom and in the society as a whole. In addition, the teachers working with pupils of foreign background aim at enhancing their pupils’ pride of themselves and their background, as well as their integration into Swedish society, by promoting equality between the sexes, tolerance between different religions and different ethnic groups. Doing this, they hope to counteract criminality and gangs.
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- Lilliestam, Anna-Lena, 1952, et al.
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Lågstadielärare talar om sin undervisning i de samhällsorienterande ämnena
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordidactica. - 2000-9879. ; 10:2, s. 48-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artikeln beskriver en intervjustudie med tretton legitimerade och erfarna lågstadielärare om deras undervisning i de samhällsorienterande ämnena. Ett centralt tema är spänningen mellan dessa ämnens kognitiva ämnesinnehåll och de fostrande aspekterna och hur lärarna balanserar mellan dessa poler. Några lärare beskriver ett stort arbete med kunskapsinnehållet i geografi, historia, religionskunskap och samhällskunskap, medan andra förnekar att det finns något kunskapsinnehåll i ämnena alls, utan menar att det enbart är fostran och socialisation. De lärare som har en majoritet elever med utländsk bakgrund beskriver ett arbete med att främja "svenska" värden av jämställdhet och tolerans mellan olika grupper. Materialet undersöks också med fokus på svenska skolans selektiva traditioner. Delvis i kontrast mot styrdokumentens intentioner framträder en klassisk bildningstradition och progressivistiska idéer om vikten att utgå från elevernas erfarenhetsvärld.
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