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- Fabri, Anna, et al.
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Improving a Swedish health practice for refugees through participatory action research : potentials and constraints
- 2024
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Ingår i: Educational action research. - : Routledge. - 0965-0792 .- 1747-5074. ; 32:3, s. 422-437
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- his paper reports on a two-year project focusing on health com-municators working with refugees in Sweden. By employing parti-cipatory action research and the theory of practice architectures, the study examines a health information practice for newly arrived refugees and highlights its potentials and constraints. The joint meetings that occurred between the participating researcher and the health communicators during the project were the primary source for collaboration, development, and data collection. The findings show that perceptions of limitations due to existing power structures initially hindered the group from experimenting with new activities for the groups of refugees. However, as the communicators gained experience, the conversations in the joint meeting practice changed, which facilitated the action research process. By challenging common working methods, which were initially perceived as causes for concern, the communicators recog-nised that the concretisation of the health information they wanted to convey could also function as a useful pedagogical tool. The analysis shows that, despite constraints during the working process, the participatory action research practice created a democratic work process which empowered all participants. Collective talks in the communicative space nurtured an architecture that generated new ideas and made it possible to leave the classroom-based teaching situation for new ways of learning about health and physical activity. The findings also show that participatory action research made the communicators aware of their capacity to imple-ment change by offering various movement-based activities that benefited the participating refugees and increased their agency and empowermentT
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- Billmayer, Jakob, 1983-, et al.
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What's in it? : schoolbags in the lives of pupils and classrooms
- 2024
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Routledge. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overarching aim of the present study is to investigate such an invisible object; namely, schoolbags and how their contents function in the lives of pupils between the privacy of the home and the societal world of schools. A sociomaterial approach is used to understand schoolbags as objects that enable certain actions and norms. The uniqueness of the study calls for a more basic approach on the analytical level, carefully investigating and describing the content of the schoolbags as well as their context seeing them as frozen moments of processes. The data material consists of photographs depicting contents of 16 German satchels, which were analysed alongside a description of exterior appearances of schoolbags and the material context of the classroom. The findings show that the function of the schoolbags exceeds their obvious transportation purposes, and that they are complex, entangled objects in the construction of "schooling" and "the pupil".
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- Jobér, Anna, 1975-
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Private actors in policy processes. entrepreneurs, edupreneurs and policyneurs
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of education policy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0268-0939 .- 1464-5106. ; 39:1, s. 20-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools and municipalities. This study examines a growing rate of activities from companies and businesses working within public sectors. It also examines consequences of cooperation between private and public actors. Findings show that multiple actors meet in different forms and with different functions, in multiple ways and with diverse agendas. What can be discerned is strong Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), where actors and networks are linked together, directly or indirectly, in fluid and flexible relations and partnerships. Private actors on educational markets not only becomes edupreneurs but policyneurs, a new concept introduced. As private actors engage in the policy making and the public sphere, a complex and disorganised landscape with new formations of strong actors emerge, entailing a number of consequences. One implication is the establishment of lobbyism in the Swedish educational landscape, with potentially negative consequences for democracy. One conclusion is that new formations of power dissolve the roles and functions of private and public actors within education, with implications on decision-making, transparency, and democracy.
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