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- Arnesen, Trine, 1969-
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Are they ready for this? : Experiences on implementing educational behavior-analytic interventions in Norwegian kindergartens
- 2014
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis describes an investigation into experiences connected to the implementation of educational behavior-analytic interventions (ABA) for children with autism in kindergartens. The research questions and the methodological choices in this investigation evolved based on new experiences over the course of the research project. Three sub-studies were conducted: a single case study on the implementation of ABA teaching programs specifically targeting joint attention skills for children with autism in kindergartens (Study 1); a questionnaire survey on the experiences of ABA supervisors in implementing ABA in kindergartens (Study 2); and an interview study on the experiences of ABA teachers in implementing ABA in kindergartens (Study 3). During Study 1, it appeared that the teaching intensity of the targeted ABA teaching programs varied largely from what was initially planned for all four of the participating children. Under those conditions, the learning outcomes of the children also varied. With regard to Study 2, the survey data obtained from 29 ABA supervisors indicated that many children with autism who receive ABA in Norwegian kindergartens do not receive the number of teaching hours being planned for them. There also seems to be quite a large number of kindergartens that lack teaching teams and who receive supervision less than what is generally recommended to obtain the optimal outcome from ABA. With regard to Study 3, the interview data obtained from 10 ABA teachers illustrated how implementation factors such as compatibility, complexity, client responsiveness, and supervision can be manifested when ABA is implemented in the kindergarten. A main finding was that in some cases there seem to be conflicting opinions within the kindergarten about whether ABA is right for the child, something that was interpreted to reflect a conflict between the categorical and the relational perspectives of special education.
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- Augustsson, Christian, 1966-
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Unga idrottares upplevelser av föräldrapress
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Over the last decades intense debates have taken place, in the mass media, regarding the child-parent relation within sport. Questions have been raised if parent’s involvement can be a source of pressure for children and youth. In Sweden relatively little research have been undertaken to study this problem.Therefore the aim of this thesis is:- to describe and analyse children’s and youth’s experiences of parental involvement within the sport milieu, focusing on parental pressure.The purpose has also led to the following formulated problems:- How do children and youth experience parent’s presence, actions and open reactions toward young athletes in the sport milieu?- What does it mean for young athletes to experience parental pressure?Parents can unintentionally impose pressure on children just by trying too hard to be a good sport parent. Earlier research has proposed that young athletes experience pressure from parents when there is an imbalance between the experienced intensity in the parental involvement and what they desire. Given this background parental pressure was defined as: young athlete’s experiences of feelings of insufficiency in sport, which is emanated from parent’s, both hidden and outspoken, demands and expectations to achieve within the sport milieu”. For this thesis a critical factor in the theoretical framework is young athlete’s subjective experiences of parents, and especially parental pressure, in the public sport milieu.The data collection consisted of both questionnaires and interviews. The respondents (n=601, age 8 to 16) were selected from twelve of the most popular sports for children and youth (football, handball, swimming, equestrian sport, tennis, floor hockey, athletics, golf, ice hockey, gymnastics, figure skating and table tennis. The data from the interviews was collected from a sample of twelve young athletes (age 10 to14).The results showed support for how children in general are happy and satisfied with their parent’s involvement (81%). However it was also found that there was a minority group of 19% that indicated experiences of high parental pressure. In the results there were also tendencies that showed how certain sports (tennis, swimming, golf and equestrian sport) scored higher on the parental pressure scale than others. The respondents who scored low (under the mean) on the self-perception scale showed tendencies to score high on the parental pressure scale (Rho= -.38, p<.01). The factors connected to parental pressure, highlighted in the interviews, were also emphasized in an open-ended question.Stronger guiding principles, reinforced motivation and designed education dealing with these subjects in organised sport are inevitable. Otherwise organised youth sport will never succeed in oppressing the primary sources of children’s experiences of parental pressure.
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Barn, barndomar, rättigheter och utbildningar : Vänbok till Solveig Hägglund
- 2012. - 1
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Bidragen i den här vänboken handlar alla om de teman som ständigt varit aktuella i Solveigs Hägglunds vetenskapliga gärning. Det vill säga, texterna handlar om barn och barndomar, om barns rättigheter och om de villkor som är förenade med utbildning för barn. Bidragen belyser den forskning som våren 2012 är aktuell vid avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet författade av före detta doktorander och av kollegor till Solveig.Denna vänbok tillägnas vår kollega Solveig Hägglund, professor emerita i pedagogik vid Karlstads universitet.
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- Bergh, Andreas, 1964-, et al.
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Local enactment of the Swedish ‘advanced teacher reform’
- 2019
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In: Journal of Curriculum Studies. - : Routledge. - 0022-0272 .- 1366-5839. ; 51:3, s. 326-341
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article focuses on a new form of governing that targets a selected group of teachers. Specifically, it analyses how the Swedish so-called advanced teacher reform is enacted at the local level and discusses its implications for teachers’ professionalism. The methodological approach enables a local analysis in a broader international policy context. Using characteristic elements from curriculum theory to analyse the relationship between different levels and elaborating on the linguistic turn of curriculum theory, three concepts are central in the analysis: enactment, linguistic criteria and professionalism. Empirically, the study draws on material from a two-year application process in a medium-sized municipality. The result demonstrates that the local enactment process is clearly influenced by transnational policy trends and that less allowance is made for teachers’ own experience-based knowledge in the second studied year. The linguistic analysis shows how the applicants using the ‘right concepts’ were selected to become ‘advanced teachers’. As complex and qualitative aspects disappeared from the agenda, this type of governing, with its standardized use of language, may reduce schools’ educational potential. Changes like this raise new questions about how schools can maintain and develop democratic and professional values whilst being exposed to new policy trends.
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- Bergh, Andreas, 1964-, et al.
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Local enactment of the Swedish national "advanced teacher reform"
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the last decades great efforts have been made in many countries to build education systems that are hoped to enable raised quality, expressed in terms of better learning outcomes and higher goal achievement. One of the most highlighted keys for this development is the crucial role of the teacher expressed in international educational policy documents like ‘Teachers matter’ and ‘Nothing beats a good teacher’ (OECD 2005, 2009, 2011; National Agency for Education 2010). To analyze how those intentions are interpreted and enacted by different local, public and private educational actors, this paper will investigate how one country, Sweden, has decided on a career reform for teachers and specifically how this is enacted at a local level.
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- Bergh, Andreas, 1964-, et al.
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Local enactment of the Swedish national 'advanced teacher reform'
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The overriding aim with this paper is to study how the Swedish advanced teacher reform is enacted at a local level. More specifically, we have chosen to study the local process of application over the period of a few years in a middle-sized Swedish municipality. By regarding the linguistic dimension of the reform, analyses of the language used will contribute to illuminate tensions and power relations between different levels and actors in the local enactment processes. Thus, language plays an important role in shaping our understanding of policy changes and instead of just studying individual texts and actors, different speech acts must be related to a wider social context (Skinner, 2002). Our interest in the local enactment of the reform is to view and analyze language as a tool with which politicians, local administration and private agencies can shape their demands and desires with the reform. Simultaneously, language is also a tool that both enables and hinders teachers’ descriptions of professional competencies in their applications.Perspectives / Theoretical framework: The advanced teacher reform is part of international trends and movements. In text analyses of national expectations of the reform, many researchers show how not only national policy actors have had an influence on shaping the reform but also strong international actors like the EU and the OECD. Today, networks of policy actors, whether they are commercial, ‘grey zone’ (Lindblad, Popkewitz & Pettersson 2015) or politically appointed, are interrelated in a variety of ways in transnational and intra-national spaces of policy (Ball 2016). Altogether this means that various restructuring processes have led to circumstances whereby today’s national and local performance of school reforms are in a completely new political situation (Hopmann 2008). Thus, the local enactment of reforms needs to be understood in relation to a broader policy context, which is complex and occasionally holds paradoxical expectations, which also change over time.Data sources and methods: The aim is operationalized through analysis of how the language is used by local actors, as expressed in written form in authoritative local documents and complemented by interviews, in application templates and in applications from teachers who apply for a position as advanced teacher. The local case represents a Swedish middle-sized municipality with approximately 650 teachers employed in the compulsory school. Since the start of the reform there have been several application rounds from which we have studied the first and the second round. Our sample consists of 40 applications from the rounds 2013 and 2014. We have strived to represent both male and female applicants who work with pupils in diverse age and with different subjects. Each application consists of approximately 75–100 pages.Results: Our results are based on interpretations on how the language and formulations made by the applicants respond to the requested abilities in the application templates. The temporal aspect is important as we notice differences in what criteria the applicants pay attention to from one year to another. These differences are found to be related to both changes in the application templates as well as an increasing awareness among the applicants on what criteria the municipal school administration consider to be valuable. Taken together, in our analyses we found two major expressed abilities to be of interest. First and foremost it is about abilities to work with assessment and secondly it is about abilities to work with pupils influence. Assessment is especially interesting as we found obvious changes related to the concept between the two rounds. Formative assessment appears more frequently in the second round where we also notice how for example words like legally secure, fair, equitable and summative assessments appear as reinforcements in the applications. Furthermore words like evidence based, proven experience, collegial learning appears in the second round, but mostly without descriptions of its meaning.Relevance: Our results demonstrate how international trends and a national reform for improving teacher and teaching quality is being transformed on the local level. By showing this we believe that the local enactment of the Swedish advanced teacher reform is an interesting case for other countries.
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Berättelser : Vänbok till Héctor Pérez Prieto
- 2018
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Denna vänbok tillägnas vår kollega Héctor Pérez Prieto. Boken består av olika berättelser med anknytning till Héctors forskning och tillsammans formar bidragen en ny berättelse om hans forskarliv, en slags livsberättelse.Författarna är akademiska vänner som vid olika tidpunkter och på olika platser samarbetat med Héctor som handledare, student, doktorand och kollega.
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