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- Axelsson, Thom
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AI som specialpedagogens bästa vän? : Skolans digitalisering, AI och lärarrollen
- 2023
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Ingår i: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige. - 1401-6788 .- 2001-3345.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det råder delade meningar om digitaliseringen och AI:s allt större utrymme iskolan. Inte sällan leder det till en tämligen polariserad debatt där mänskligavärden ställs mot ekonomiska. I föreliggande artikel problematiseras detta utrymme med utgångspunkt i specialpedagogik, kopplat till tre övergripande teman:digitalisering, AI och maskininlärning och lärarrollen. De frågor som artikeln merspecifikt kretsar kring är: Vilka problem finns det med externa aktörer och enökad digitalisering inom det specialpedagogiska fältet? Vad händer med denspecialpedagogiska professionen i en skola som alltmer präglas av AI? Det är enexplorativ studie som tar sin utgångspunkt i ett Foucault-inspirerat angreppssättför att analysera de konsekvenser som AIed har inom utbildningsområdet.Materialet består av intervjuer, tidningsartiklar, inslag från SvT och företagenshemsidor och rapporter. Resultaten pekar mot att EdTech-industrin får konsekvenser för lärarrollen, inte minst i samband med den specialpedagogiskaprofessionen. I många avseenden är det oklart vem – skolan, forskningen ellerföretagen – som styr vad som händer på såväl policynivå som i det individuellaklassrummet och för den enskilda individen. Det väcker i sin tur en rad frågorkring AI och etik.
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- Axelsson, Thom
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Bemanningsföretagens intåg i skolan : Skola, marknadisering och hyrlärare
- 2021
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Ingår i: Utbildning och Demokrati. - : Örebro universitet. - 1102-6472 .- 2001-7316. ; 30:2, s. 85-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Temp agencies’ steady incursion into education staffing: School, marketing, and supply teachers. Many schools have become dependent on staffing agencies to meet temporary staff needs. Supply teaching staff hired via these agencies have become important for schools’ activities and budgets, attracting extensive criticism. The teachers’ unions have been harsh critics of the staffing industry’s burgeoning role in education. The staffing agencies themselves believe that they can complement and help schools. This article presents an exploratory study of schools’ external staffing, seeking to better understand the phenomenon in relation to school marketing. Drawing on interviews and textual analysis, and using a genealogical approach, the article addresses questions such as: What types of problems and opportunities arise in connection with the external sourcing of school staff? The results identify divided opinions about whether these staffing agencies are cost-effective, and about the extent to which they advance or impede pedagogical development, competence, and security in schools.
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- Axelsson, Thom
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De svåruppfostrade barnen : Skolpsykiatrins framväxt och etablering i Sverige 1910–1955
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scandia. - : Stiftelsen Scandia. - 0036-5483. ; 86:2, s. 60-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around the year 1900, there was an emerging scientific interest in man and human behaviour. Among other things, this interest involved a concern about the quality of the population, especially regarding children. A whole scientific movement, the Child Study Movement, emerged in both the United States and Europe, revolving around this interest in children. Different experts were united in their concern about the state of the population of children and developed a variety of models and methods to improve the characteristics and health of children. One category concerned the experts in particular: the misbehaved. Drawing on a Foucauldian perspective on biopower, this article explores how psychiatry played an important role in sorting and categorizing schoolchildren in the early welfare state during the interwar years. Society demanded new ways of controlling the population, and biopower which is about administering the population and maximizing vitality became a central element of this governing. This article is a contribution to the history of biopower, and this topic is discussed with the emergence and establishment of child and school psychiatry during 1910-1955 serving as an example. In this article, it is argued that the involvement of psychiatrists occurred in three steps: as a part of creating and defining new categories of "problem children" within the school system, due to influence from the mental health movement with the establishment of advisory clinics and, finally, through hospitalization and specialization in the 1940s.
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- Axelsson, Thom
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From Discipline Power to Pastoral Care : "Tattare," "Gypsies," and Education in Sweden, 1923–1960
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 17:1, s. 60-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of compulsory schooling in Sweden, this article discusses the shift from what was often called "the Tattare problem" to, later, "the Gypsy question." The article frames the discussion with reference to Michel Foucault and his concepts of discipline power and pastoral power. The central question addressed is how the schools dealt with students from these groups. Children, especially their care and handling, were an important focus of welfare politics in Sweden. This meant that childhood was a significant field of governance, which became obvious in schools' work with "Tattare" and "Gypsy" children. This article highlights how the tone towards these groups changed, especially in the 1940s. Over time, these students were seen as more malleable by institutions and their agents, which exerted pastoral power by guiding and leading them in order to shape the minds of these future citizens.
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- Axelsson, Thom
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Lisa i hjälpklass
- 2021
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Ingår i: En resa genom skolans historia. - Uppsala : Uppsala Studies of History and Education. - 9789186701048 ; , s. 71-76
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Axelsson, Thom, et al.
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Telling a scientific story and governing the population : The Kallikak story and the historical mutations of the eugenic discourse.
- 2024
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Ingår i: History of Psychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 1093-4510 .- 1939-0610. ; 27:3, s. 246-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we follow the trails of 20th-century psychologist Henry Herbert Goddard’s influential study of the Kallikak family. Goddard’s study is treated as a scientific story with two interlocking dimensions: One is the actual story of the Kallikak family, with literary elements such as setting, plot, and characters. The other dimension is the broader eugenic discourse, a powerful scientific narrative that calls for action in relation to society and the population. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, to analyze the forming and articulations of this story and to explore some of the consequences for governing the population that it has made possible. Secondly, to explore some aspects of what a Foucauldian analytics of government can contribute with in relation to Goddard’s work and the eugenic discourse from the early 20th century to today.
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