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- Kilbrink, Nina, 1974-, et al.
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Introducing the object of learning in interaction : Vocational teaching and learning in a plumbing workshop session
- 2023
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In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1363-6820 .- 1747-5090. ; 75:2, s. 323-348
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In vocational education, the learning content is often considered as concrete and specific, and the vocational learning involves physical work and interactions between participants and artefacts. Furthermore, one teacher has the overall responsibility for several students during classes in the vocational workshop at school, which means that the teacher has limited time for every single student and that the few minutes they meet become very important. However, the documented knowledge about how vocational learning is constituted in the vocational classroom and what learning content is focused on in the interaction between teachers and students is very sparse. In this study, we focus on how the enacted object of learning and its critical aspects are made relevant, when a student and teacher in a plumbing workshop session negotiate the conducting of a task in Swedish vocational education. This will be done by using CAVTA (Conversation Analysis and Variation Theory Approach) to make a close and detailed analysis of video recordings of the interaction between the student and teacher when a task is introduced in the workshop session. The results show a complex process, where the teacher alternates between parts and wholeness, using several semiotic resources at hand when highlighting the learning content.
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- Axelsson, Jan, 1969-
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Hur allt smälter samman i handlingens centrum : En yrkesämnesdidaktisk studie av transformation, variation och interaktion i svetsundervisning
- 2023
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Föreliggande licentiatuppsats är en yrkesämnesdidaktisk studie som behandlar praktiska lärandemoment på det industritekniska programmet, med inriktning svetsteknik.Det övergripande syftet med licentiatuppsatsen är att bidra med kunskap om undervisnings- och lärandeprocesser när lärare systematiskt transformerar ämnesinnehåll och yrkeskunnande till svetsundervisning. Faktorer som påverkar undervisning av praktiska moment i svetsteknik behandlas med stöd av begreppet transformation och i studien utforskas hur svetslärare kan synliggöra lärandeobjekt och stimulera elevers uppvisande av förståelse och färdigheter i undervisningssituationer av praktiska moment. Studien har samlat empiri från ett praktiknära forskningsprojekt som har vilat på det teoretiska ramverket CAVTA, en kombination av samtalsanalys och variationsteori. Projektet har designats med inspiration av learning study. Olika perspektiv av det övergripande syftet behandlas i de två delstudier som innefattas i licentiatuppsatsen. Delstudie 1 utforskar undervisnings- och lärandeprocessen när svetslärare dels transformerar ämnesinnehåll och yrkeskunnande genom synliggörande av ljud och hörselintryck i förhållande till lärandeobjektet, inställningar av utrustningen i svetsmetoden MIG/MAG, dels stimulerar elever att uppvisa förståelse och färdigheter av undervisningsinnehållet i undervisningspassens interaktion. Delstudie 2 behandlar synliggörande av ett lärandeobjekt och elevers uppvisande av förståelse och färdigheter i svetsmetoden TIG. Denna delstudie fokuserar användandet av CAVTA och modellen learning study i teknisk yrkesutbildning. I resultaten framträder hur ett ämnesinnehåll, som är vagt definierat i kursplaner, bland annat genom svetslärares yrkeskunnande transformeras till undervisning av praktiska moment i svetsteknik. Studien visar hur undervisningen systematiskt utvecklas med stöd i det teoretiska ramverket CAVTA och ansatsen learning study. Ett snävt urval av lärandeobjekt och ett tydligt avgränsat fokus ger den undervisande läraren möjlighet att i variation synliggöra aspekter i undervisningssituationer och samtidigt stimulera den enskilde eleven att på olika sätt uppvisa sin förståelse och sina färdigheter i undervisningspassens interaktion. Förslag över hur modellen learning study kan utvecklas för användning i studier rörande praktiska moment i svetsundervisning förs fram. Implikationer från studien rör framför allt undervisning av praktiska moment i svetsning där resultaten av systematisk integrering av variation i interaktion verkar lovande, även om vissa utmaningar lyfts fram. I ett större perspektiv kan resultaten vara intressanta för utveckling av lärandeobjekt av praktiska moment inom annan teknisk yrkesutbildning.
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- Fredholm, Kent
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Genvägar, omvägar och irrvägar : Gymnasieelevers användning av maskinöversättning under uppsatsskrivande på spanska
- 2021
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Based on four published articles on Swedish upper secondary school pupils’ use of online resources during essay writing in Spanish L3, this thesis in educational work and Romance languages focuses, from a language education perspective, on the use of machine translation. Two of the articles observe pupils’ use of online resources in general, and of Google Translate in particular, revealing a complex weave of strategies where Swedish, Spanish, and English are used to search, change and control word sequences, simultaneously including lexical, morphological, and syntactic aspects of the languages. The other articles study the effects of machine translation on text length and on lexical, morphological, and syntactic accuracy and complexity, as compared to texts written with printed dictionaries as the only translation tool. The results point to small but statistically significant positive and negative effects on complexity and accuracy. As for effects on vocabulary, the use of machine translation is shown to increase lexical diversity as long as it remains in use, the effect, however, vanishing when the tool is no longer utilised.In the introductory chapters of the thesis, the results from the articles are re-analysed from a Gibsonian ecological affordance perspective, focusing on the pupils’ explorative and performative interactions with the affordances of machine translation, and on the pupils’ strengths and challenges when handling the Spanish language.The thesis contributes to a deepened understanding of the complexity of foreign language learners’ interactions with machine translation, and further points to the importance of strengthening (meta-)linguistic awareness, linguistic self-confidence, and technological know-how in foreign language education. The thesis also underscores the importance of language teachers’ taking an active part in reinforcing the above-mentioned areas, and raises key questions about the future of writing in foreign language education.
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- Arvidsson, Minna, 1981-, et al.
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Step by step - moving forward : Different resources for learning at vocational education on the handicraft programme
- 2023
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In: Book of abstracts.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the vocational education classroom settings, teaching and learning are done in interaction between teacher and students. This study is a part of a larger VR-funded project (dnr 2017-03552) which explores vocational learning in technical upper secondary vocational education. In our study we aim to shed light on how learning takes place in a vocational classroom at the handicraft programme (hair- and makeup stylist) in actual teaching situations. When studying how learning takes place in a vocational and educational training classroom, we can reach more in-depth knowledge about the teacher-student interaction in a narrower scale. The purpose is to contribute with knowledge regarding how learning takes place and can be made visible with support of the concepts critical aspects features within variation theory (cf. Marton, 2015) and how learning is done in interaction (Sahlström, 2012) between the teacher and the student(s) in the learning settings. Methods/Methodology Our empirical data consists of video material of lessons in the Handicraft programme. Conversation Analysis and Variation Theory (CAVTA) are the basis of this study described by Kilbrink and Asplund (2020). To reach a more comprehensive knowledge of the what- and the how-aspects of learning, Conversation analysis and Variation Theory are merged into one common approach (cf. Emanuelsson & Sahlström, 2008). CAVTA is used as the analytical tool when analyzing the video material. Expected outcomes In the data we can see that it takes about 3-7 rounds of interactions where the student gets guidance step by step, before the student reach the learning content regarding the whole makeup procedure. The teacher comes back to the students learning process and negotiates continuously during the lesson. Learning occurs through negotiating when using artefacts, embodied movements, mirrors and tools. References Emanuelsson, J., & Sahlström, F. (2008). The price of participation: Teacher control versus student participation in classroom interaction. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 52(2), 205-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313830801915853Kilbrink, N., &Asplund, S.-B. (2020). “This angle that we talked about”: learning how to weld in interaction. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 30(1), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-018-9490-zMarton, F. (2015). Necessary conditions of learning. Routledge. Sahlström, F. (2012). "The truth lies in the detail": On student and teacher epistemic-stance displays in classroom interaction. In B. Kaur (Ed.), Understanding teaching and learning: Classroom research revisited. (pp. 79-90). Sense publishers.
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- Arvidsson, Minna, 1981-, et al.
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Using the Mirror as a Working Tool in Handicraft Education
- 2023
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In: The 40th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference Proceedings 2023, 1(October). - Liverpool.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In interaction between students and vocational teachers, technical artefacts constitute an essential part for the development of vocational students’ future professional knowledge. Although vocational learning has been an under-researched area, there has been an increased interest within the vocational education research to examine the teaching and learning processes that take place when vocational students and teachers interact in vocational school settings. The presence of physical objects such as tools, machines and material in the teaching and learning processes within vocational education, which encompass a central aspect of a vocational subjects’ specific characteristics, is a dimension which is often overlooked. In the Handicraft programme (specialization hair- and makeup stylist) at Swedish upper secondary vocational education, a large part of the practical work that students are engaged in is to view their work through the mirror. Therefore, the focus in this study is what learning content is made relevant when teacher and student(s) are interacting in front of the mirror. The data for the study consists of video recorded lessons from the Handicraft Programme, and the study is based on CAVTA (Conversation Analysis and Variation Theory). Based on CAVTA, the process of learning includes what is being learned and how learning is done in interaction between the teacher and student(s) in the authentic and enacted teaching session. At the conference, we will present results from detailed analysis of sequences when the teacher and the students interact in front of the mirror and what vocational knowledge is made possible to learn in these interactions.
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- Asplund, Stig-Börje, 1973-, et al.
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Approaching life story interviews as sites of interaction : Integrating conversation analysis with a life story approach
- 2019
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In: Qualitative Research Journal. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1443-9883 .- 1448-0980. ; 20:2, s. 175-187
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore what conversation analysis has to offer when analysing a series of life story interviews aiming to capture how reading and texts are used in a rural working-class man’s identity construction.Design/methodology/approachThe conversation analysis methodology with its explicit focus on embodied social action, activity and conduct in interaction is integrated with a life story approach when analysing and describing the identity constructing processes that take place in life story interview settings.FindingsThrough a close and detailed analysis of the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, and by focusing and highlighting the phenomena and identities that are oriented to in the face-to-face interaction here and now (and in relation to there and then), descriptions of the complex and dynamic identity constructing processes that are set into play in the life story interview are possible.Research limitations/implicationsIt is argued that the approach has a lot to offer when approaching life story data, and thus is a method that can increase the transparency in life story interview research.Originality/valueThe paper explores the intersection of what is often seen as diametrically opposed forms of analysis: conversation analysis and narrative inquiry.
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- Asplund, Stig-Börje, 1973-
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Att skolas till en läsare – om den svenska skolans läsundervisning under 1990- och 2000-talet genom en ung arbetarmans berättelser : om den svenska skolans läsundervisning under 1990- och 2000-talet genom en ung arbetarmans berättelser
- 2022
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In: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige. - : Svensk Förening för Pedagogisk Forskning. - 1401-6788 .- 2001-3345. ; 27:1, s. 36-60
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I artikeln uppmärksammas en ung arbetarmans berättade erfarenheter av den svenska skolans läsundervisning. Utifrån en livsberättelseansats som sätter den berättande människan och dennes erfarenheter i centrum synliggörs hur fram-växandet av en läsarhistoria är ett resultat av ett komplext samspel mellan erfaren -heter och minnen av skolans läsundervisning och de erfarenheter som gjorts utanför denna kontext över tid. Den läsarhistoria som växer fram samspelar i sin tur med den specifika lokala och historiska kontext i vilken berättelserna ägt rum och med de upplevda förväntningar som vilat på berättaren att vara pojke och man i en svensk skogsbygd. Artikeln synliggör hur läsning görs till en socialt och kulturellt accepterad praktik inom en lokalt förankrad maskulin arbetarklasskultur genom processer där läsningen kopplas till konkreta fysiska handlingar och in-förlivas i en muntlig berättartradition. Genom dessa transformationsprocesser görs läsningen inte enbart till en ”nyttig” eller ”vettig” sysselsättning, utan också till en praktik genom vilken en ung arbetarman i skogsbygden utvecklar en identi-tet som läsare. Studien riktar ljuset mot frågor som kretsar kring vem som är en läsare, och vem som inte är det, vad läsning är och vad det inte är, och på vems eller vilkas villkor. Studien illustrerar också hur de möjligheter att diskutera läsningens vad, hur och varför i skolans läsundervisning riskerar att gå förlorade i en läsdiskurs som betonar läsning av pappersburen typografisk text och som utestänger andra, alternativa sätt att läsa och skapa mening i mötet med olika typer av texter.
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