| 1. |
- Cronhjort, Mikael, et al.
(author)
-
Leadership and Pedagogical Skills in Computer Science Engineering by Combining a Degree in Engineering with a Degree in Education
- 2020
-
In: 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). - : IEEE. - 0190-5848. - 9781728189611 ; , s. 1-9
-
Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this full paper on innovative practice, we describe and discuss findings from dual degree study programmes that combine a master's degree in engineering with a master's degree in education. This innovative study programme design has emerged in Sweden due to an alarming demand for more Upper Secondary School teachers in STEM subjects. Studies on alumni from these programmes indicate that the graduates are highly appreciated not only as teachers in schools, but also in business and industry, e.g. in roles as IT consultants and computer science engineers. Data indicate that the breadth of the combined education, and especially leadership and pedagogical skills, are important factors for these graduates' success as engineers.
|
|
| 2. |
- Okenwa-Emegwa, Leah, 1973-, et al.
(author)
-
Lessons Learned from Teaching Nursing Students about Equality, Equity, Human Rights, and Forced Migration through Roleplay in an Inclusive Classroom
- 2020
-
In: Sustainability. - Basel : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 12:17
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Inclusive education, sustainable development, and core nursing values all share common goals of promoting diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion. However, prevailing norms of exclusion may shape health systems and healthcare workers’ attitudes and threaten inclusive patient care. Ongoing global conflicts and violence resulting in growing patient diversity in terms of ethnicity and migration status have led to questions regarding healthcare systems’ preparedness for inclusive nursing. Diversity-rich classrooms and collaborative learning methods, like role play, are inclusive strategies that may be useful in nursing education. The purpose of this paper is to present lessons learned from incorporating role play about forced migration in inclusive nursing classrooms. Various diversity-rich nursing student groups participated in a two-hour role play on forced migration facilitated by youth volunteers from the Swedish Red Cross Society between 2017 and 2019. This study is based on the amplified analysis of qualitative data materials, in the form of notes and summarized feedbacks, obtained from evaluating the role play as a teaching-learning activity. Three themes were identified, specifically, knowledge exchange, existential reflections, and empathy evoked. Findings suggest that working collaboratively in an inclusive environment may improve nursing students’ understanding of the vulnerabilities created by forced migration and to be better prepared for promoting social justice for this group in health care settings.
|
|
| 3. |
- Malmström, Hans, 1980, et al.
(author)
-
Integrating CAD, 3D-printing technology and oral communication to enhance students' physics understanding and disciplinary literacy
- 2020
-
In: European Journal of Physics. - : IOP Publishing. - 0143-0807 .- 1361-6404. ; 41:6
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How do engineering physics students come to understand and share their physics learnings as a result of careful integration of oral communication with engineering skills like computer aided design and 3D-printing technology? Based in a sociocognitive theory of situated communication pedagogy, the action research conducted in this study set out to answer this research question in an introductory first-year course in engineering physics. A re-design intervention was planned, overseen, and evaluated by a teaching team comprising three physicists and a communication specialist. The findings-supported by student surveys, reflective field notes from the teachers' observations, and a focus group interview with students-strongly indicate that the students' structured oral engagement with disciplinary content confer learning benefits and promote the development of disciplinary (physics) literacy.
|
|
| 4. |
- Finnveden, Göran, et al.
(author)
-
Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden
- 2020
-
In: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1467-6370 .- 1758-6739. ; 21:4, s. 685-698
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose Since 2006, higher education institutions (HEIs) in Sweden, should according to the Higher Education Act, promote sustainable development (SD). In 2016, the Swedish Government asked the Swedish higher education authority to evaluate how this study is proceeding. The authority chose to focus on education. This paper aims to produce a report on this evaluation. Design/methodology/approach All 47 HEIs in Sweden were asked to write a self-evaluation report based on certain evaluation criteria. A panel was appointed consisting of academics and representatives for students and working life. The panel wrote an evaluation of each HEI, a report on general findings and recommendations, and gave an overall judgement of each HEI in two classes as follows: the HEI has well-developed processes for integration of SD in education or the HEI needs to develop their processes. Findings Overall, a mixed picture developed. Most HEIs could give examples of programmes or courses where SD was integrated. However, less than half of the HEIs had overarching goals for integration of SD in education or had a systematic follow-up of these goals. Even fewer worked specifically with pedagogy and didactics, teaching and learning methods and environments, sustainability competences or other characters of education for SD. Overall, only 12 out of 47 got a higher judgement. Originality/value This is a unique study in which all HEIs in a country are evaluated. This provides unique possibilities for identifying success factors and barriers. The importance of the leadership of the HEIs became clear.
|
|
| 5. |
-
Teaching through Stories Renewing the Scottish Storyline Approach in Teacher Education
- 2020
-
Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book aims to meet the demands on teaching and learning in the twenty-first century, and in specific, how teacher education may transform pedagogical approaches and didactic methods to support future teachers in enhancing needful skills. In particular, it focuses on the pedagogical approach of Storyline, and how a Storyline can be applied in teacher education. It argues that teacher education benefits from the potency of various disciplines while applying an interdisciplinary methodology. Storyline is a problem-based, cross-curricular approach, based on learning through an evolving narrative, created in collaboration between teacher and students. It includes a variety of didactic tools, and inclusiveness towards different learners. Using Storyline in teacher education arrange for teacher educators to integrate alternative structures, that enables interdisciplinary cooperation and topic-based teaching. The authors have incorporated Storyline in many different ways, which contextualizes throughout the book. The book provides an overview of Storyline and introduces improved and new theoretical perspectives on this approach, including many practical examples.
|
|
| 6. |
- Doyle, Andrew, 1992-
(author)
-
Consolidating concepts of technology education : From rhetoric towards a potential reality
- 2020
-
Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The thesis focuses on the relationship between international rhetoric and classroom realities in technology education. For some time there has been widespread recognition that the intended goals for learning in the subject area have failed to manifest in enacted practices as envisioned. As the intermediary between rhetoric and reality, the technology teachers and ways of understanding their enacted practices are the focus of this work. The thesis is based on four research articles which adopt theoretical and empirical approaches to investigating the technology teacher as mediator of enacted practice. In Article I, technology education in the Irish national context is investigated through technology teachers’ reflections on enacted practice. In response to a variety of situational- and systemic- factors which impede classroom practice being identified, Article II and III theorise approaches to investigating enacted practice in technology. In acknowledging the epistemological basis of technology as depicted in the extant literature, a reconceptualisation of how to utilise pedagogical content knowledge research in explaining enacted practice is put forward. Article IV returns to the technology teacher in a transnational context, whereby teachers from the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and New Zealand are interviewed in constructing a grounded theory of teachers’ purposes for teaching technology. The contributions of the research are twofold. Firstly, following the identification of evidence to support the existence of rhetoric-reality tensions in technology education, an ecologically situated framework of enacted practice is put forward. The framework acknowledges how subject matter is treated in technology education in striving for more comprehensive ways of investigating enacted practice. Secondly, in taking a preliminary step toward understanding enacted practices, a grounded theory of teachers’ purposes for teaching technology is put forward. This grounded theory offers a unified model for articulating the purposes of teaching technology that prevail in classroom realities today.
|
|
| 7. |
|
|
| 8. |
- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962, et al.
(author)
-
Introduction: Teaching through Stories: The Storyline Approach in Teacher Education
- 2020
-
In: Teaching through Stories. Renewing the Scottish Storyline Approach in Teacher Education. - Berlin : Waxman. - 9783830939863 ; , s. 11-30
-
Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Globally, crucial efforts are being made to develop, change and transform education to meet the demands of the internationalised cultures and policies of the twenty-first century. As educators prepare their school children to respond to the challenges and possibilities of globalisation, mobility, environmental and social issues, and an insecure future, they also have to simultaneously interact with these entangled processes themselves. Educational policies and structures are influenced by globalised values, principles and ideals and have led to changed curricula in many countries. New curricula require new pedagogy which in turn creates new demands on teachers and learners. Educational systems, teachers and learners, need to be accustomed to the key concept of life-long learning. New skills have been for quite a while – and still are – required for new ways of managing pupils, teaching and learning situations, material and resources and school systems. Teacher education plays an essential role in transforming pedagogical approaches and methods and equipping prospective teachers with 21st century skills, but have been criticised for a lack of connection between theory and practice, evident in different parts of the world (Hennissen, Beckers, & Moerkerke, 2017; Marcondes, Leite, & Ramos, 2017; Peercy & Troyan, 2017), including the countries in Scandinavia (Hennissen et al., 2017; Häggström & Udén, 2018; Korthagen, 2010; Rönnerman & Salo, 2012). Through a theoretic discussion, this chapter aims to contribute comprehensive knowledge related to core aspects of TSA with teacher education as the context. TSA relies on the premise that stories support meaning-making processes, something that according to Mitchell and McNaughton (2016) “has been recognised by Storyline practitioners since the 1960s” (p. ix).
|
|
| 9. |
- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962, et al.
(author)
-
Take Action! Encountering Disorienting Dilemmas in Order to Include the More-Than-Human World – an Act of Sustainable Thinking
- 2020
-
In: Teaching through Stories. Renewing the Scottisch Storyline Approach in Teacher education. - Berlin : Waxmann. - 9783830939863 ; , s. 209-229
-
Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter is based on a one year-long participatory action research study, including 22 students in a compulsory Grade two class (year 8–9). The general aim with this study is to shed light on the pupils’ actions regarding disorienting dilemmas they encountered in the nearby forest, through a six-week long Storyline. An underlying purpose is to study the role of the teacher, and the interaction between the teacher and the pupils. The teacher’s aim with the Storyline was to create a Storyline in which the students were enabled to enhance ecological literacy. The result shows that the students developed action competence for sustainability. One essential prerequisite for this to happen was the teacher’s flexibility and open-minded approach that allowed for unplanned events to occur.
|
|
| 10. |
- Karlsson, Daniela, et al.
(author)
-
Students’ Repertoire of Ways of Responding to Translation Challenges in Bilingual Education and its Implications for Language Learning
- 2020
-
In: ECER 2020, Glasgow - European Conference on Educational Research, August 25-28, 2020 (Conference cancelled).
-
Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Students’ repertoire of ways of responding to translation challenges in bilingual education and its implications for language learning Outline of the research question and theoretical framework Education that supports students’ language learning is a pressing issue in several cultural contexts. Finding ways of promoting language teaching and learning is important to educational inclusion and justice. In the nature of contemporary schooling, how to design language teaching, in a developmentally productive manner, provides a particularly demanding challenge. An important feature of this challenge is analyzed in the present study by focusing on the development of students’ linguistic and meta-linguistic awareness. In the study, we investigate student’s repertoire of ways of responding to translation challenges in bilingual education and its implication for (language) learning. More specifically, we have analyzed: a) how do the students take on the challenge of approaching and managing translation tasks in groups, b) how do translation activities engage students in meta-communication, and c) how is translation collaboratively constituted by the participants. The study, taking a cultural-historical perspective on human learning (Fleer, 2010; Hedegaard, 2009), conceptualizes learning as the appropriation of cultural tools and practices (Fleer & Pramling, 2015). Appropriating cultural tools and practices tend to require a prolonged familiarization process (Wertsch, 1998); the learner gradually becomes more familiar with using the particular tool and participating in the practice. Cultural-historical theory suggests that through interaction we appropriate concepts and construct our understanding in interaction with other people. Language is the primary cultural and psychological tool; it plays the central role in sense making, learning and development processes (Vygotsky, 1978; Littleton & Mercer, 2013; Wells, 2007). Taking this theoretical point of view, concepts used for understanding communicative practices are intersubjectivity, that is how participants coordinate their perspectives to constitute a mutual activity (Rommetveit, 1974; Wertsch, 1998)) and meta-communication (Fleer & Pramling, 2015). In addition, language is understood and analyzed as a set of practices, rather than as a system (Gort & Sembiante, 2015). In the context of the present study, this means that translation activities are interesting to investigate in terms of teaching and learning. Translation activities, including negotiations between students (and teachers), are therefore seen as important practices for understanding and developing language and linguistic awareness. Methodology and Methods The study is conducted in one of the larger cities in Sweden, in an English class of 17 Grade-seven (13 years) students with a certificated English and Swedish teacher. The empirical data were generated during five lessons. The students, with various linguistic backgrounds, have experience of Content and Language Integrated Learning Programme (CLIL), and therefore are used to communicate both in English and Swedish in the school context. This type of practice builds on a premise that languages do not need to be taught separately and that all students’ language practices work together as a linguistic repertoire, rather than operating independent of each other. In the activities analyzed in this study, the students are introduced to various poems, songs or texts, and then are prompted to discuss their translations and sense made, using one or several languages. The teacher rotates among the groups, listens to their discussion, and gives further challenging and supporting feedback. The present presentation takes its starting point in the empirical data of group discussions of groups of three students without the teacher. During the five lessons, the students were introduced to a task to translate in groups a part of a book they were currently reading, Bodyguard (written by Chris Bradford), from English to Swedish. The subsequent task was to translate several songs or parts of songs: “Where is the Love” (by the Black Eyed Peas) and “Dancing on My Own” (by Robyn), from English to Swedish; and a Swedish song (by Håkan Hellström) called “Valborg” (Eng. Walpurgis Night), to translate from Swedish to English. The activities were audio-recorded, transcribed inspired by Jefferson’s transcription system of notation and interpreted through attending to the sequential unfolding of communicative actions (Wells, 1999). Based on the nature and functions of language, mainly the notion that the development of higher-mental processes, such as metalinguistic awareness, is rooted in interaction with others (Vygotsky, 1997), Sociocultural Discourse Analysis (SCDA) more specifically constitutes the method for analysis in the current study. SCDA provides methodological tools for analyzing how participants in an activity use language to think together in the pursuit of the activity and the ways in which (partly) shared understanding is developed. Ethical approval was obtained from the school leadership, the teacher, the students and their caregivers prior to the commencement of data collection. Conclusions, expected outcomes or findings In this presentation, we will show how the students take on the challenge of translation they face, focusing on: a) ways of arguing the choice of word/meaning when translating, b) meta-communicating their approach of handling the translation/task, and c) how the translation activity is collaboratively constituted. a)Ways of arguing the choice of word/meaning The analysis shows how the students use various ways of arguing their choice of word/discerned meaning. We will show how they base their argument on i) how something sounds, ii) specific content-related knowledge, contingent on their interest and experience, iii) conventions or linguistic ‘rules’ of what one can/cannot say in English/Swedish, and iv) context of the text. b)Metacommunicating the approach of handling the translation/task The analysis shows how the students explicitly comment and negotiate their approach or choice of words/terms when translating something. Communicating the meta-perspective of the activity relates to i) whether it is important to know the corresponding term, ii) how the use of the terms depends on the content and context, and iii) how sometimes one needs to go on with the translation and come back to it later and look for a more appropriate term or phrase. c) Translation as collaboratively constituted by the participants The analysis shows how the negotiations become explorative (Littleton & Mercer, 2013) in their character of how the students are negotiating the meaning of different words or phrases. In the negotiations, they relate to the context of the text and to the type of the text (what kind of text they are translating – its genre – and what the text is about). On the basis of the findings, we will discuss what the indications and implications of this repertoire of responses to translation challenges are for accessing and developing the students’ metalinguistic awareness and how a translation activity can function as a learning practice. References Fleer, M. (2010). Early learning and development: Cultural-historical concepts in play. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fleer, M., & Pramling, N. (2015). A cultural-historical study of children learning science: Foregrounding affective imagination in play-based settings (Cultural Studies of Science Education). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Gort, M., & Sembiante, S. F. (2015). Navigating hybridized language learning spaces through translanguaging pedagogy: Dual language preschool teachers’ languaging practices in support of emergent bilingual children’s performance of academic discourse. International Multilingual Research Journal, 9, 7–25. Jidai, Y., Kultti, A., & Pramling, N. (2017). In the order of words: Teacher-children negotiation about how to translate song lyrics in bilingual early childhood education. Research on Children and Social Interaction, 1(2), 199–221. Kultti, A., & Pramling, N. (2018). ”Behind the words”: Negotiating literal/figurative sense when translating the lyrics to a children’s song in bilingual preschool. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 62(2), 200–212. Kultti, A., & Pramling, N. (2017). Translation activities in bilingual early childhood education: Children’s perspectives and teachers’ scaffolding. Multilingua, 36(6), 703–725. Littleton, K., & Mercer, N. (2013). Interthinking: Putting talk to work. London: Routledge. Mercer, N. (2004). Sociocultural discourse analysis: Analysing classroom talk as a social mode of thinking. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(2), 137–168. Vygotsky, L. S. (1987). The collected works of L. S. Vygotsky, Volume 1: Problems of general psychology, including the volume Thinking and Speech (R. W. Rieber & A. S. Carton, Eds., N. Minick, Trans.). New York: Plenum. Wells, G. (2007). Semiotic Mediation, Dialogue and the Construction of Knowledge. Human Development, 50(5), 244–274. doi: 10.1159/000106414 Wells, G. (1999). Dialogic inquiry: Towards a sociocultural practice and theory of education. New York: Cambridge University Press. Wertsch, J. V. (1998). Mind as action. New York: Oxford University Press. Intent of publication Language Awareness Keywords linguistic and metalinguistic awareness, languaging, translation in education. Keywords on research methods (3-5 keywords to specify research methods) CLIL, Group discussions, audio-recording, Interaction Analysis, Sociocultural Discourse Analysis
|
|
