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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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Developing digital literacy and digital competence in teacher education : Challenges, dilemmas and opportunities identified through self-study methodology
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teachers have an important role in helping pupils achieve the skills needed to become digitally literate and digitally competent in today’s society. Consequently teacher education must help becoming teachers develop these skills and how to teach them. However, previous research indicates a lack of confidence among many teacher educators to do so (Enochsson & Rizza, 2009).To acquire a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities teacher educators and student teachers might encounter when working with, and learning about, ICT as a tool for learning, the authors of this paper carried out a self-study research project (cf. Loughran, 2007; Zeichner, 2007) which focused on our own experiences when planning and teaching a 7,5 ECTS course in initial teacher training. The focus of the course was the pedagogical use of web 2.0-resourses to create learning objects for use in (pre-)schools. The course could be characterized as innovative since its focus, content and form of distribution, teaching and examination goes far beyond what’s common in initial teacher training inSweden(Enochsson, 2010; Ericsson & Löndahl, 2008). Lectures, seminars and student co-operation were mainly web-based and students were encouraged to take a very high degree of responsibility for their own learning. Web-based resources specifically created for the course were offered to compensate for the scarceness of face-to-face meetings.The fact that we both have rather different experiences of the content and the technology used in this course, and of being a teacher educator and researcher, was used as a methodological postulate for the self study project. After every seminar, lecture or examination the two of us reflected together. Sometimes non-scheduled student contacts also actuated further reflections. These reflections were recorded digitally and notes were taken. In total five hours of recordings were made at eight times. In between these collaborative reflections, personal reflections were noted and sometimes taped.Some of the key-findings discussed in the paper are: Insights in challenges and opportunities for both teachers and students to integrate (a) content knowledge; (b) pedagogical knowledge; and (c) technological knowledge; into (d) a Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, TPACK (see Mishra & Koehler 2006, 2008, cf. Ferdig, 2006).How our different skills and experiences gave us a better understanding of what might be difficult or unclear to students, thus making us able to give a better course and more valid student feedback. We also identified some of the mechanism that made us, as “expert” and/or “novice”, take certain things for granted (cf. Sandretto) which in turn might make us miss students’ proximal zone of development. When co-operating closely and complementing each other skills- and experience wise, this is less likely to happen. Another insight was how our different proficiencies (i.e. our different understanding of technology, pedagogy and content) affected our assessment of the students’ multimodal presentations, what becomes focused, valued and assessed.Implications for teacher education, teacher educators’ professional development, student teachers, and for (pre)school are also discussed.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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Dilemmatic Spaces in Educational Contexts : Towards a conceptual framework for dilemmas in teachers work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Teachers and Teaching. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1354-0602 .- 1470-1278. ; 19:1, s. 4-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the concept of introducing and analytically using the concept of dilemmatic space in an educational context offers a potential to elucidate and deepen the understanding of the complexity of teachers’ everyday practise in work. Traditional ways of looking upon dilemmas is that they are related to specific situations where people react to conflicting values, obligations or commitments, ending up in situations where there often is no right way to act. However, the idea of a dilemmatic space, introduced by Honig (1996), offers a more complex understanding of dilemmas and their positioning and relations. Instead of being considered as specific events or situations, dilemmas are regarded as ever-present in peoples’ living space, as in a dilemmatic space. As seen as a relational category wherein one object is related to another(s), the spatial dimensions of dilemmatic space highlight the dynamics of dilemmas and dilemmatic spaces. These dynamics are important to recognize, for instance in relations to changeable boundaries of the space or issues dealt with that conjure up the dilemmas both on an individual and social level. These changing conditions of values, decision, responsibility and authority change the rules for relations, negotiations, and positioning, and thus the boundaries for the dilemmatic space and the dilemmas. In this article, the theoretical base for the idea of dilemmatic space is elaborated and connected to conditions for teachers’ work. Some conclusions are that new concepts force us to challenge pre-conceptions and involve us in new kinds of sense making processes. As such, the idea of dilemmatic space offers a broad theoretical framework to conceptualise dilemmas as well as the complexity of the educational contexts.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-
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Discussant in the Symposia "Research on Practices of Teacher Induction Part II"
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The symposium consists of two consecutive sessions (Research on Practices of Teacher Induction I and II). In the first paper of the first session (Part I), a theoretical framework was introduced, and the two following papers studied the practices of induction from two different empirical viewpoints. The second session of the symposium (Part II) will introduce three more empirical research projects about teacher induction. The session will continue on the direction which has been indicated in the first part of the symposium, addressing the research ruestion: how are the practices of teacher induction constituted in the three aforementioned dimensions: (1.) physical spacetime, (2.) semantic space and (3.) social space (Kemmis & Grootenboer 2008; Kemmis & Heikkinen 2012). The speakers come from countries with different culture and history, teacher education and induction systems which enriches the quality of information gathered within the symposium. The first presentation from Norway will focus on examining mentors’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) which is constituted of content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. This presentations is focused on the (2.) semantic space of induction. It addresses the meaning-making processes of teachers through asking how mentors themselves define their professional content knowledge. The second paper will introduce an emerging practice of teacher induction, Peer-Group Mentoring model (PGM) which is currently being disseminated throughout Finland. Based an empirical analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, experiences of the national program will be introduced. The third presentation is based on the work of the European PAEDEIA network (Pedagogical Action for a European Dimension in Educators' Induction Approaches) and introduces a comparative research design about three parallel models for induction: one in Finland, one in Turkey and one in Sweden.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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Education of Mentors
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this presentation, we study various ways of organising education for mentors in Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Our research questions are: (1.) How have the mentor training programmes been carried out? (2.) What is the degree of formalization of mentor’s education in the participant countries of NQT-COME? (3.) What are the advantages and disadvantages of formalizing mentoring and mentor education? Firstly, we will parallelly introduce a general description of the national solutions of education for mentors from seven viewpoints: (1.) by whom are the who mentors’ education organized (2.) what are the aims, contents and structures of mentor studies (3.) what is the level of accreditation of studies (4.) how is the mentors’ training financed (5.) how is it connected with initial and in-service teacher education (6.) how are the mentors recruited (7.) what are the current challenges and further plans in each of the aforementioned countries. Drawing from this, we will closer analyze the various national solutions within a continuum of formalization vs. in/nonformalization. As a conclusion, the most formalized system is one implemented in Estonia, whereas the least formalized practice architecture is found in Finland.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-
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Educational culture and the impact on national mentoring approaches : Comparing issues of trust, research-based development and ideology in a Finnish and Swedish educational context
- 2014
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Ingår i: AERA conference, digital database.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this analytical paper is to examine how culturally embedded norms, values, relations and prerequisites operate in the development of a mentoring system. This is done by comparing Sweden’s top-down mandatory one-to-one mentoring approach and evaluation, with Finland’s bottom-up peer-group mentoring approach initiated, piloted and implemented by researchers. The analysis is based on meta-analysis of research, policy documents, written and oral information.The analysis show that culturally embedded issues, such as a culture of trust, an ideology of distrust, teachers’ and researchers’ positions and the ‘need’ to strengthen cooperation or evaluate teachers in different ways, contribute to the development of peer-group mentoring and one-to-one mentoring with evaluation.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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Exploring a conceptual framework for research on Induction and Mentoring : Combining Policy enactment, task perception, and agency
- 2014
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Ingår i: AERA conference, digital database.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on the research questions that are emerging from the current reforms with consequences for Induction and Mentoring in various countries. The implementation focus is on the interplay between the new triad formed as a consequence of a Teacher Registration Reform in Sweden: head teacher/mentor/mentee as situated in a larger context of policy development and development in/of practice. The objective of this paper is twofold; (a) to elaborate and discuss a conceptual framework based on an interplay between the theoretical contributions of policy enactment (Ball, Maguire & Braun, 2012), task perception (Kelchtermans, 2009) and agency (Priestley and Biesta); (b) to discuss its possibilities for research within the field of induction and mentoring, and (c) provide an example of how it could be implemented in a study on induction and mentoring.
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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Exploring research on mentoring policies in education
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. - 2046-6854. ; 2:3, s. 218-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose-This article expands the conversation about mentoring and policy and provides a detailed analysis of empirical research on mentoring polices in education, with a focus on adult mentoring in primary and secondary schools.Methodology-Articles in peer-reviewed journals were examined using a systematic content analysis. In total, 405 abstracts/articles were reviewed, and 37 articles were subjected to an indepth analysis.Findings -Although very few articles dealt specifically with mentoring policy in any substantial way, a major finding that emerged was that to be effective, policy development should include not only the stakeholders who have the power to create it, but also those who must implement it.Research limitations - Although the authors acknowledge that the systematic search process may not have captured all the relevant articles, and that other books or resources on this topic might not have been accessed in the search process, serious research on the topic of mentoring policy and its implications for primary and secondary school contexts nevertheless seems to be limited.Practical implications-The findings have implications for practice and future research, and point towards the need for a comprehensive research agenda on this topic.
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