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- Areljung, Sofie, 1983-, et al.
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Expanding the notion of 'ownership' in participatory research involving teachers and researchers
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Research and Method in Education. - : Routledge. - 1743-727X .- 1743-7288. ; 44:5, s. 463-473
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article provides a conceptual discussion of 'ownership' in various forms of participatory research. The discussion is grounded in our experiences from three research projects in science education. We seek to understand how and why ownership may be distributed between teachers and researchers at different stages in the research process. Looking at our projects in retrospect, we see that ownership was differently distributed at the initial stages. Then ownership distribution followed a similar pathway, as teachers gained ownership of implementation, whereas researchers reclaimed ownership of analyzing and disseminating the work. Our discussion departs from the idea that ownership relates to both 'risks' and 'benefits' as well as to both 'rights' and 'obligations'. Thereby, we can make visible some of the circumstances that steer ownership towards the teachers or researchers. For example, we highlight that ownership distribution may be influenced by guidelines for research ethics and inequalities in terms of administrative support structures available to researchers and teachers. Based on our discussion, we suggest a number of questions to initiate and support a continuous dialogue between teachers and researchers who plan to engage in participatory research.
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- Arvidsson, Inger, et al.
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Should I stay or should I go? Associations between occupational factors, signs of exhaustion and the intention to change workplace among swedish principals
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. - 1661-7827 .- 1660-4601. ; 18:10, s. 1-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A high turnover among principals may disrupt the continuity of leadership and negatively affect teachers and, by extension, the students. The aim was to investigate to what extent various work environment factors and signs of exhaustion were associated with reported intentions to change workplace among principals working in compulsory schools. A web-based questionnaire was administered twice, in 2018 and in 2019. Part I of the study involved cross-sectional analyses of the associations 2018 (n = 984) and 2019 (n = 884) between occupational factors, signs of exhaustion, and the intention to change workplace, using Generalized Estimating Equations models. Part II involved 631 principals who participated in both surveys. The patterns of intended and actual changes of workplace across two years were described, together with associated changes of occupational factors and signs of exhaustion. Supportive management was associated with an intention to stay, while demanding role conflicts and the feeling of being squeezed between management and co-workers (buffer-function) were associated with the intention to change workplace. The principals who intended to change their workplace reported more signs of exhaustion. To increase retention among principals, systematic efforts are probably needed at the national, municipal, and local level, in order to improve their working conditions.
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- Bengtsson-Tops, A, et al.
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Subjective versus interviewer assessment of global quality of life among persons with schizophrenia living in the community: A Nordic multicentre study
- 2005
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Ingår i: Quality of Life Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-2649 .- 0962-9343. ; 14:1, s. 221-229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Few studies have investigated differences between subjective and externally assessed quality of life in individuals with a severe mental illness. In a sample of 387 patients with schizophrenia living in the community the present study investigated the association between subjective and interviewer-rated quality of life, clinical and sociodemographic factors related to the two assessments, and if discrepancies in the assessments were related to any clinical or social features of the patients. Method: The study was a Nordic multicentre study with a cross-sectional design. Instruments used were the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, the Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, Camberwell Assessment of Needs and General Assessment of Functioning. Results: The correlation between subjective and interviewer-rated quality of life was moderate (ICC=0.33). More severe affective symptoms, fewer emotional relations and a lower monthly income were related to poorer subjectively rated quality of life but in a stepwise multiple regression analysis accounted for only 14.1 of the variance. Poorer interviewer-rated quality of life was mainly related to a more severe psychopathology but also to a lower monthly income, fewer emotional relations and not being employed. Together these factors accounted for 45.5 of the variance. A greater discrepancy between the subjective and the interviewer rating was found in patients with less affective symptoms, unemployment, and a better social network. Conclusion: Only a moderate correlation between subjective and interviewer-assessed global quality of life was found, implying that the sources of assessment differed, as was also shown in subsequent regression models. It is concluded that both perspectives on the patient's quality of life may be valuable for treatment planning, especially in cases where differences in quality of life assessment related to the patient's psychopathology may be expected.
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- Benzein, Eva, et al.
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Families' importance in nursing care : nurses' attitudes - an instrument development
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Nursing. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. - 1074-8407 .- 1552-549X. ; 14:1, s. 97-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes the development and testing of a research instrument, Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA), designed to measure nurses' attitudes about the importance of involving families in nursing care. The instrument was inductively developed from a literature review and tested with a sample of Swedish nurses. An item-total correlation and a first principal component analysis were used to validate the final instrument, including a second principal component analysis to analyze dimensionality, and Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency. The instrument consists of 26 items and reveals four factors: families as a resource in nursing care, family as a conversational partner, family as a burden, and family as its own resource. Cronbach's alpha was 0.88 for the total instrument and 0.69 to 0.80 for the subscales. The instrument requires further testing with other nurse populations.
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- Bladh, Stina, et al.
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Psychometric performance of a generic walking scale (Walk-12G) in Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Neurology. - Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 0340-5354 .- 1432-1459. ; 259:4, s. 729-738
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Walking difficulties are common in neurological and other disorders, as well as among the elderly. There is a need for reliable and valid instruments for measuring walking difficulties in everyday life since existing gait tests are clinician rated and focus on situation specific capacity. The Walk-12G was adapted from the 12-item multiple sclerosis walking scale as a generic patient-reported rating scale for walking difficulties in everyday life. The aim of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Walk-12G in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Walk-12G was translated into Swedish and evaluated qualitatively among 25 people with and without various neurological and other conditions. Postal survey (MS, n = 199; PD, n = 189) and clinical (PD, n = 36) data were used to test its psychometric properties. Respondents considered the Walk-12G relevant and easy to use. Mean completion time was 3.5 min. Data completeness was good (<5% missing item responses) and tests of scaling assumptions supported summing item scores to a total score (corrected item-total correlations >0.6). Coefficient alpha and test–retest reliabilities were >0.9, and standard errors of measurement were 2.3–2.8. Construct validity was supported by correlations in accordance with a priori expectations. Results are similar to those with previous Walk-12G versions, indicating that scale adaptation was successful. Data suggest that the Walk-12G meets rating scale criteria for clinical trials, making it a valuable complement to available gait tests. Further studies involving other samples and application of modern psychometric methods are warranted to examine the scale in more detail.
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- Brante, Göran, 1951, et al.
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To double a recipe : interdisciplinary teaching and learning of mathematical content knowledge in a home economics setting
- 2014
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - : Routledge. - 2000-4508. ; 5:2, s. 301-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines if interdisciplinary teaching can be said to facilitate the learning and use of fractions by Swedish 12-year-old pupils. Home and Consumer Studies is well suited to interdisciplinary teaching, and young people can therefore find it interesting to study maths since the setting is relevant to them. Building on variation theory and a learning study, we examined pupils' (n18) ability to double fractions greater than ½ when using a recipe. The general results show that what is to be learned benefits if it is presented in different ways, that teachers should not take pupils' knowledge for granted, and mathematically that it is not necessary to divide something to be able to double it. We argue that the study shows that genuine problems based on pupils' interest and life world can enhance motivation and, in turn, learning.
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- Brunosson, Albina, 1986-, et al.
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Aspects of cooking in food and meal science
- 2013
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Ingår i: 8th International Conference on Culinary Arts and Sciences. - 9789898631084 ; , s. 206-210
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Education and research within the interdisciplinary subject food and meal science can be mediated through science, craft and creativity and cooking is a central activity. This paper aims at elucidating some aspects of cooking through the perspectives “Culture and Communication” “Food Science” and “Nutrition and Health”. This was done through a survey among students and teachers. The results stress the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to understand the different aspects of cooking and the prominent view on cooking as a cultural and communicative activity.
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- Brunosson, Albina, 1986-
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Att lära sig laga mat – en del av hem- och konsumentkunskapens didaktik
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Det obligatoriska ämnet hem- och konsumentkunskap (hkk) syftar till att elever ska utveckla kunskaper och intresse för hushållets verksamheter. På grundsärskolan i Sverige har elever med lindrig utvecklingsstörning tre gånger så mycket hkk som elever i grundskolan. Den här studien fokuserar på ämnesdidaktik i hkk på grundsärskolan. Mat, måltider och hälsa är ett centralt innehåll i hkk och innefattar hur man lagar mat genom val av matlagningsmetoder, recept, ingredienser och redskap. Att lära sig laga mat har historiskt sett skett genom att man har varit tillsammans med de som behärskar kunskapen och sedan tagit efter. Att kunna laga mat kan ses som kunskaper för livet och kan bidra till mer hälsosamma matvanor. Att förstå hur elever lär sig matlagning är därför något centralt för att utveckla en ämnesdidaktik inom hkk. Syftet med studien är att undersöka och diskutera vilka artefakter som elever möter och använder sig av när de lär sig matlagning i hkk-undervisning. Teoretisk utgångspunkt är sociokulturell teori med särskilt fokus på elevers användning av artefakter. Metoden är deltagande observation. Resultatet visar att elever i de undersökta grupperna har stora svårigheter att använda recept för att lära sig laga mat, ändå är recept något som lärare måste förhålla sig till enligt kursplanen. Hur kan praktiskt kunnande likt matlagning läras ut? Är receptet som instruktion en didaktisk omöjlighet? De spörsmål som studien ger upphov till rör inte enkom elever med särskilda behov, utan förmodligen många andra som behöver lära sig matlagning. Vad kan vara problemet med att göra deltagande observationer i en studie som denna? Vilka likheter och skillnader kan man tala om när det gäller ämnesdidaktik i teoretiska respektive praktiska ämnen?
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