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- Elfström Pettersson, Katarina, 1959-
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Production and Products of Preschool Documentation : Entanglements of children, things, and templates
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The objective of the present study is to produce knowledge about how children, things, documents, computers, teachers, templates and other entities take part in and produce documentation in preschool systematic quality development work. The thesis asks questions about how and what is produced as quality in preschool documentation. Through a posthumanist agential realist approach, the study engages empirically in video recordings of preschool documentation practices from one Swedish preschool, and in documentation from four other Swedish preschools.The results, presented in four articles, show that documentation practice is complex and entangled with a variety of entities, human and non-human, and spaces and time. The study shows how children’s participation in production of documentation does not depend on which documentation method is used. In the study, objects such as computers, images and coloured labels, together with teachers’ attitudes and agendas, have an impact on the way that children are involved in producing documentation. The results also show that the products of documentation, intra-acting with a local template, with past and present preschool traditions and policies, produce rather than represent certain elements of quality such as teachers’ actions, children’s interests and thematic work. The thesis produces knowledge about how the focus of preschool documentation shifts away from individual children and towards teachers’ activities, and creates possibilities for what preschool practices and quality may become.
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- Löfdahl, Annica, 1960-, et al.
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Preschool's new suit : Care in terms of learning and knowledge
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In: Early years. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0957-5146 .- 1472-4421. ; 35:3, s. 260-272
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article focuses on aspects of the notion of care in relation to the work of quality documentation in the Swedish preschool. Questions deal with how teachers enact pedagogy in relation to the documentation work; how they handle the demands of visibility; and which aspects of the teacher profession are exposed and which are silenced. Data consist of observations from staff meetings at a preschool and interviews with preschool teachers and their managers while discussing the work of documenting quality in the preschool. Our analytical tools are based on theories of teacher professionalism, combined with education policy. Our results show that the preschool staff rarely talk about care and that difficulty in describing and documenting the meaning of care leads them to use various professional strategies whereby they escape the challenges and transform care into children's learning and knowledge.
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- Thelin, Katina, 1971-
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Mellan varumärke och gemensamt raster : Skilda sätt att se verksamhetsidéer för pedagogisk verksamhet
- 2013
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this study is to explore the ways in which verksamhetsidé is seen within the Swedish educational context.In Sweden, the concept verksamhetsidé is used for an idea or a set of ideas related to the practice of an organization, for instance a school or a school district. Although the importance of such shared ideas is often pointed out by practitioners as well as researchers within the field of school development, there is little consensus about their meaning. When it comes to questions about the actual function and character of such an idea, or set of ideas, little guidance is found in the literature. This thesis seeks to contribute to such knowledge.In order to describe variations in the ways such ideas are seen as well as in the ways working with such ideas are seen, a phenomenographic study was carried out. The empirical data consist of deep interviews with 14 school directors of education in one larger city in Sweden; each responsible for several schools and preschools in one district. As directors they were all involved in the process of developing a verksamhetsidé, to guide all educational activities in the area.Results suggest that verksamhetsidé can be seen as a trademark, as putty, as a compass, as a map, or as a shared perspective. Each of these conceptions is used as a label for a category of description, and together they constitute one of the study’s outcome spaces. When it comes to working with such ideas, another variation is found. This variation is described through the concepts of top-down implementation and bottom-up sensemaking. Moreover, the data suggest no correlation between a certain way of seeing a verksamhetsidé and a certain way of seeing how to work with it.
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- Enochsson, Ann-Britt, et al.
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Incongruence in Ethical and Methodological Issues in Research Concerning Children's Perspective
- 2003
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Abstract Experiences from two doctoral dissertations where childrens perspective has been focused have shown that ethical as well as methodological issues have to be highlighted. Interview studies and ethnographical studies often take up the perspective of the researcher or other adults to obtain as valid results as possible. The authors would like to extend the problem to include also what it means to the children in preschool and school to participate in a scientific study, and put focus on ethical aspects which can arise when chil-dren and researchers meet.
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- Hjalmarsson, Maria, 1973-, et al.
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Det är inte jag som har tillsatt mig själv på posten : Motstånd och ironi i relationer mellan förstelärare och deras kollegor
- 2016
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In: Kapet (elektronisk). - Karlstad : Karlstads universitet. - 2002-3979. ; 12:1, s. 76-94
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 2013 infördes en ny reform om karriärvägar för lärare. Genom att tillsätta 17 000 lärare i en ny position, en formellt högre befattning – förstelärare - förväntas reformen förutom att bidra till skolutveckling och förbättrad måluppfyllelse även att höja läraryrkets status. Efter reformens två första år konstateras att förstelärarpositionen domineras av kvinnor. I artikeln belyses de villkor som kvinnor i lärarkarriärer mött och fortfarande möter, villkor som relateras till de positioner som förstelärarna upplever sig ha. Data från intervjuer och enkäter belyser hur första generationens förstelärare själva upplever att lärarkollegor ser på deras nya position och hur de själva hanterar dessa bemötanden. I analysen av data har vi inspirerats av ett teoretiskt ramverk av Wahl, Holgersson och Höök (1998) om hur ironi och motstånd används för att hantera skilda positioner bland kollegor. Resultaten visar framförallt hur förstelärare utsätts för ironiska kommentarer och gliringar från kollegor, men även hur förstelärare gör motstånd och hävdar sin position. Begreppet position används i artikeln i två betydelser. Å ena sidan refererar position till den formella befattningen som förstelärarna har fått genom förordnandet. Å andra sidan hänvisar positionsbegreppet till den symboliska plats som förstelärarna försätts och försätter sig själva i genom interaktion med andra i yrkesvardagens praktiker.
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