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- Asp-Onsjö, Lisa, 1951, et al.
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Om examensarbetet på grundlärarprogrammet
- 2019
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Ingår i: Vetenskaplighet i högre utbildning. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144130637
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- Erlandson, Peter, 1963, et al.
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A fair game - the neoliberal (re)organisation of social and relational practices in local school settings
- 2020
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology of Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-5692 .- 1465-3346. ; 41:3, s. 410-425
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we use data from ethnography-inspired studies of eight Swedish schools. We describe and analyse how a number of neoliberal-inspired economic and political processes have (re)organised social and relational practices in local school settings. There is an increased focus on individuality in the everyday working lives of teachers, where result-centred practices, relations and professional identities have replaced notions of equality and compensatory interventions. In our study, the teachers describe an increasing focus on performativity, competition and hierarchisation. We use fairness as a lens for illuminating these changes in social relations, changes in the organisation of teachers' practices, and teachers' struggles with these changes. The purpose of this study is to analyse how the current reforms are enacted and how they affect the working lives of teachers, and thereby to contribute to the current discussion on how the last decades of political and administrative changes have affected educational practice.
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- Harling, Martin, 1972, et al.
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Collaboration for attendance: a comparative case study of school social teams
- 2024
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Ingår i: NERA 2024 Abstract book.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We will present a project that intends to study the consequences of so-called school social teams in Sweden, within which actors from school and social services collaborate around students with e.g. problematic school absence, in order to improve attendance. The purpose of the project is to map and analyze the areas of collaboration that arise in and around these teams.
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- Harling, Martin, 1972, et al.
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The Expertification of Educational Care - Negotiating School Development and Attendance Work
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), August 23-26, 2022..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The school's expansion in modern and late modern times have institutionalized and increasingly integrated two forms of educational care – acare for students’ knowledge development and a care for students’ well-being. That is, the two forms of care have been assumed topresuppose one another - well-being is assumed to be a prerequisite for knowledge development and positive knowledge development isassumed to be a prerequisite for well-being both during and after schooling (Bingham & Sidorkin, 2004; Cornelius-White, 2007; Roorda,Koomen, Spilt & Oort, 2011). These assumptions are at the heart of schools’ work with student attendance since efforts and solutions toabsenteeism so clearly involves both forms of care. Schools’ work to support attendance thus not only have to consider the problems andconsequences associated with missing out on schooling; but also, how students’ well-being affects their ability to be in, or come to school, and,conversely, how schooling affect students’ well-being. Differently put, work with student attendance can neither avoid a concern for students’knowledge development, nor for their well-being. In this study, we examine a school's institutionalized work with students' knowledge development and well-being in relation to issues concerningstudents with problematic absenteeism. The presence of absent students "stress tests" a school's ability to integrate the two forms of care.Their absence break with some of the most basic and preconceived premises for how knowledge development and well-being can beintegrated in schoolwork - physical presence and active participation in continuous, class-based teaching practices. In addition, the work withthese students is particularly challenging, since it often requires a coordinated effort that span over a number of actors (e.g. teachers, studenthealth team, school management, external actors and networks), contexts (classroom teaching, special needs units, different forms ofhomeschooling) and various efforts to promote students’ knowledge development and/or well-being. Furthermore, the work (with absentstudents but also in general) is always conditioned by available resources (e.g. money, time, physical/digital infrastructure, materials) andinstitutionalized rules, norms, considerations, traditions and expectations about what needs to be done by whom, when and why. We present results from a case study where a school’s work with problematic absenteeism is analyzed in relation to development efforts thatare channeled into a specific didactic model for subject teaching. The school management estimates that, on average, five students in eachclass have a problematic absence. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze communication, negotiations and tensions that arise inthe interface between the school's institutionalized work with absent students, their well-being and the school’s systematic work with the didacticmodel to develop students' knowledge development. We believe that the design and prospected result can shed light on more generaldilemmas and tensions that arise in schools' institutional work. Our overall understanding of the phenomenon is based on neo - institutional theory, since it can explain relatively stable patterns of socialactions based on norms in groups or in society (March & Olsen, 2006). We thus choose to investigate how absenteeism and schooldevelopment efforts are perceived and handled within the school as an institution, e.g. the rules (formal and non-formal), routines andexpectations that influence what is, and is not, possible to do - that is, how institutional logics condition different action repertoires (Friedson,2001; March & Olsen, 2006). We approach our study object via questions on how actors (eg teachers, special needs educators, student healthstaff, school management) are involved in professional boundary work (Gieryn, 1983), “translate” (Czarniawska & Jorges, 1996; Alasuutari,2015), negotiate and give meaning to problematic school absenteeism in relation school development, and vice versa. Methodology, Methods, Research Instruments or Sources Used The data used in this study comes from a case study of a school’s work with students with problematic school absenteeism. The school is asecondary school situated outside of Gothenburg where absenteeism is regarded as a central and growing problem. The case study wasinitiated by teachers and school leaders and is designed as a collaborative project that involve teachers and student health team members fromthe school and researchers from the University of Gothenburg. The project was initiated in autumn 2020 and will be finalized at the end of2022. Data collection has been organized around four students with problematic school absenteeism in school year 7 and 8. Documents, observationsand interviews have been used to map actors involved in the school’s work with absenteeism, including e.g. special needs teaching groups,pediatric psychiatry, student health team members, school management and mentors. Beside mapping different actors’ work with absentstudents, we have paid special attention to actions that involve the students’ knowledge development and/or well-being. All in all, the designaims at collecting data bout the (partly different) institutional logics and action repertoires that inform different actors’ work with students withproblematic absenteeism. Departing from each case, interviews and document collection are ways to map the different actors’ perceptions of absence work; what is done,wished for and what are the expected outcomes. Next to concrete documents and perceptions, the exploration focuses on recurring patterns asthe basis for analyzing different institutional logics and action repertoires which govern and influence the various actors in their work onabsenteeism (Alasuutari, 2015). This can, for example, touch on controversies, measures, explanatory models and assumptions about absence,and how absence-work is related to more general approaches to school development. Our material is coded and categorized using the qualitative analysis tool Nvivo, which allows for in-depth analysis with the support of the study’sneo-institutional conceptual apparatus. We focus on questions about which actions and perceptions appear to be possible and problematic in the work of the various actors, not only onthe relationship between actors and the absent student, but also, given the project's neo- institutional approach, on relations between actorswithin their institutional context. Conclusions, Expected Outcomes or Findings In our preliminary results, we see how the integration between the two forms of care (knowledge development/well-being) in the school’sinstitutionalized attendance work is under renegotiation. To be more precise, we see how the integration does remain at the school level (i.e.that the school's work with absent students includes both forms) but is characterized by boundary work at the actor level (i.e. that differentactors’ action repertoires within school tend to be delineated to either form). The work with absent students is primarily organized via experts(e.g., student health team-members), and is separated from the ordinary teachers’ everyday work and school development which revolvesaround a specific didactic model to support subject teaching/learning. We refer to this as an increased “expertification” of education where, onthe one hand, health-team members with specialized knowledge on well-being – special needs, neuropsychiatric diagnoses, pupil’s social andmental life in and outside school, etc – work with students with problematic absenteeism in separate facilities, schedules and didactic repertoires; on the other hand, teachers work are underpinned by the dominant didactical model to primarily focus on teaching and knowledgetransmission, thus becoming experts on teaching in a more narrow sense. For instance, this model of teaching assumes active studentattendance and participation within the physical classroom. Thus, the model, with its subsequent action repertoires, does not take the absentstudents into consideration. Consequently, in our data it appears that teaching is rarely adapted to the specific needs of absent students. Whatwe see in our case-school is that absenteeism crystalizes a contemporary key issue of schooling, where the professional logics of educationalcare appears to be in transition. The process of expertification is underpinned by a general policy trend to unburden teachers from tasks notimmediately associated with teaching (School inspectorate, 2021). References Alasuutari, P. (2015). The Discursive Side of New Institutionalism. Cultural Sociology, 9(2). Bingham, C., & Sidorkin, A. M. (2004). The pedagogy of relation: An introduction. Counterpoints, 1-4. Cornelius-White, J. (2007). Learner centered teacher-student relationships are effective: A meta-analyses. Review of Educational Research,77(1), 113–143. Czarniawska, B. & Joerges, B. (1996) Translating organizational change. Berlin: de Gruyter Gieryn, T. F. (1983). Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies ofscientists. American sociological review, 781-795. Freidson, E. (2001). Professionalism, the third logic: On the practice of knowledge. Uni. of Chicago press. March, J. G., & Olsen, J. P. (2006). Elaborating the “new institutionalism”. The Oxford handbook of political institutions, 5, 3-20. Roorda, D. L., Koomen, H. M., Spilt, J. L., & Oort, F. J. (2011). The influence of Affective teacher-student relationships on students´ schoolengagement and achievement: A meta analytic approach. Review of Educational Research, 81(4), 493–529. School inspectorate (2021). Läraravlastande tjänster. Fokus på grundskolans årskurs 7–9.
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- Harling, Martin, 1972, et al.
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The fears and hopes of problematic school absenteeism and attendance work: notes on the politics of expertification
- 2023
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Ingår i: NERA 2023 Conference program.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim Throughout modern school history, fears of losing particular groups of children have caused public debate about the modalities of schooling, e.g., fears in regard to children with diagnoses or from ethnic minorities. Such fears, however, are recurrently coupled with hopes of redemption, restoration and salvation, e.g., in the form of special needs education or inclusive education. In this paper, we approach a profound school-related fear of our time, i.e., problematic school absenteeism. We argue that a displacement has occurred in the modalities of how schools answer to these types of fears. Tentatively, we analyse this shift as a displacement from modalities that emphasize teacher autonomy and a holistic approach to students’ school difficulties to modalities in which professionals work within divided and differentiated practices, drawing on different expertise, and focus on different aspects of the situations and problems identified in relation to the students. To make this claim, we draw on a case study where a school’s work with problematic absenteeism is analyzed in relation to development efforts that are channeled into a specific didactic model for subject teaching. We consider this didactic model to be illustrative of the displacement of modalities and we reflect on the wider scope of this displacement as the politics of expertification. Theoretical framework Our analyses of the phenomenon are based on discursive institutionalism (DI), since it focuses on ideas as the core content of discourse. DI distinguishes between four dimensions of ideas, on the one hand normative and cognitive ideas, on the other hand background and foreground ideas. While normative ideas concern values that legitimise policies and programs, cognitive ideas provide instructions for these policies and programs. While background ideas are unspoken and taken for granted, foreground ideas are more tangible, and thus more often challenged (Schmidt, 2008). Both cognitive and normative ideas can be either background or foreground ideas. This theoretical apparatus is used to analyse how actors negotiate and give meaning to problematic school absenteeism in relation to school development, and vice versa. Thus, by extension, we hope to reach insights into changes in school modalities in a more general sense. Methodology The data used in this study comes from a case study of a school’s work with problematic school absenteeism. Documents, observations and interviews have been used to map the school’s work with absenteeism and the didactic model; what is done, wished for and what are the expected outcomes. The analyses focus on recurring patterns as the basis for analyzing the four dimensions of ideas which govern and influence the various actors in their work with absenteeism and the didactic model (Alasuutari, 2015; Wahlström & Sundberg, 2018). Expected results Tentatively, we not only see the displacement from horizontal to vertical modalities in local ideas about the work with students with school absenteeism, but we can also trace these ideas to changes in normative ideas on a programmatic level about the school's overall mission, where issues on the purpose of education have been abandoned and are regarded unproblematic (Biesta, 2021).
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- Ideland, Malin, 1970-, et al.
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”En hemlig skola röjer det orimliga"
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - Stockholm : Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412. ; :2020-08-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Det är affärslogiken som styr när statistik om skolor och betyg nu ska sekretessbeläggas. Samtidigt visar detta hemlighetsmakeri tydligt att friskolan blivit norm och att andra värden felaktigt får stå tillbaka, skriver forskare.
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- Strandler, Ola
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Constraints and meaning-making: Dealing with the multifacetedness of social studies in audited teaching practices
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Ingår i: Journal of Social Science Education. - 1618-5293. ; 16:1, s. 56-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The backdrop of the article is the emergence of an international and politically motivated ambition that aims at standardising the purpose and outcomes of teaching practices via various forms of outcome controls. This ambition of standardisation is discussed in a Swedish context in relation to social studies teaching, which, at its core, has highly diverse and sometimes conflicting aims and purposes. The purpose of the article is to analyse tensions that arise in practice as ten experienced Swedish social studies teachers implement outcome-focused reforms in their teaching, and to critically discuss implications for social studies teaching. Method: Interviews, observations and a conceptual framework built on Paul Ricoeur’s discussion on the concept of practical reason has been used to analyse tensions that arose when the teachers implemented standardised tests and grading. Findings: Teaching practices shifted from social studies extrinsic dimensions (emphasising an open and individual understanding from social issues) toward social studies intrinsic dimensions (emphasising knowledge about a predetermined content) as a result of policy changes, teachers meaning-making of the reforms, and in relation to external constraints. In conclusion, it is argued that this shift risks circumscribing tools that can be used to deal with inherently complex subject dimensions. © 2017, Bielefeld University. All rights reserved.
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- Strandler, Ola
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Equity Through Assessment? Teachers' Mediation of Outcome-Focused Reforms in Socioeconomically Different Schools
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 60:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite uncertainties regarding the effects of outcome-focused reforms on teaching practices, the political confidence in the potential of such reforms to create educational change remains high. This article problematizes the assumption that two such Swedish reforms (grades and national tests in younger years) can function as an impetus for educational equity. Analysis is directed toward how the reforms were enacted in six socioeconomically diverse teaching practices, framed by a conceptual framework built on Ricœur’s discussion on a critical hermeneutics and practical reasoning. The results show great differences; with the reforms benefiting established teaching practices in the socioeconomically privileged schools to a greater extent. In conclusion, it is argued that this poses a problem in relation to aims for educational equity.
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- Strandler, Ola
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Införandet av betyg i årskurs 6
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Ingår i: Nationell konferens för ämnesdidaktisk forskning i samhällskunskap, 19 – 20 mars, Uppsala, Sverige.
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- Strandler, Ola
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Lost in translation–production, reproduction and transformation of teacher education knowledge in teacher educators’ local practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Journal of Teacher Education. - 0261-9768.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- European teacher educations today are expected to not only be ‘close to school practices’, but also to equip their students with academic knowledge. This article analyses one year of fieldwork data to discuss how these expectations are produced, reproduced and transformed in local practices by different categories of teacher educators (lecturers/assistant lecturers). The theory of practice architectures and Basil Bernstein’s concepts of vertical and horizontal knowledge discourses are employed to analyse different practices of teacher educators, and how these practices constrain and enable different actions, understandings, and relations. Different roles are identified, and it is argued that local and distal arrangements fuel isolation and fragmentation, leading to a situation where difference becomes a burden and important discourses risk being lost in translation. Under such circumstances, seemingly tangible, applicable knowledge risks overshadowing important general, theoretical, and context-independent knowledge that are crucial for a scientific professional knowledge base in teacher education.
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- Strandler, Ola
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Policy, practice and practical reason: Understanding teaching in times of outcome regulation
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Ingår i: Policy Futures in Education. - : SAGE Publications. - 1478-2103. ; 13:7, s. 887-899
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although there are reasons to believe that policies emphasising testing, accountability, assessments, evaluation and inspections have unintended and undesirable consequences for teaching practice, such reforms continue to be widely used in many countries in order to meet challenges in their educational systems. However, it is difficult to critically discuss how these types of policies relate to teaching practice without either losing societal, critical perspectives, or circumscribing teachers' agency in analysis. This article addresses that challenge by setting out a conceptual framework, aimed at contributing to an understanding of how these types of policies relate to teaching practice. Inspired by French philosopher Paul Ricœur, a critical hermeneutical approach is suggested. It is argued that his discussion of the concept of practical reason can be used to depict teaching as existing in a field of tension between the regulatory and reflective dimensions of the practice. Further, it is argued that critical hermeneutics can frame a study of teaching, understood as practical reasoning, and provide a critique that is grounded in a discussion on how the mechanisms and assumptions behind (for example neoliberal) policy are mirrored in practice, without losing sight of either the agency of teachers or a societal perspective on teaching.
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- Strandler, Ola, et al.
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The Problem of “Problematic School Absenteeism” – On the Logics of Institutional Work with Absent Students’ Well-Being and Knowledge Development
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Education : Issues and Studies. - 1056-4934. ; 55:3-4, s. 172-185
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- This article uses neoinstitutional theory to comparatively analyze different actors’ institutional work with “problematic school absenteeism”. Data was generated around four cases, each consisting of absent students and actors who work with absenteeism. The results describe how a dichotomous view of students’ well-being and knowledge development is established among actors, fueled by bureaucratic and professional logics that challenge the idea of integrating a concern for students’ knowledge development and a care for their well-being.
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- Werler, Tobias, et al.
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Ingår i: The Education Systems of Europe. - : Springer. - 9783319074726
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