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- Angervall, Petra, Professor, 1970-, et al.
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Research or teaching? Contradictory demands on Swedish teacher educators and the consequences for the quality of teacher education
- 2020
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In: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. - Borås. ; 2:1, s. 63-84
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on a policy analysis and interviews with assistant lecturers and lecturers (with a PhD) who are heavily involved in teacher education, the present article addresses contemporary tensions and challenges in Swedish teacher education. The point of departure is the theoretical framework of mission stretch and the third space professional in teacher education with the aim of investigating how teacher educators experience and navigate their daily work. The findings of the study illustrate the tensions teacher educators experience between research and teaching tasks, between a constant flow of tasks, large student groups, and demands of high-quality teaching. The findings also show a gap between the practical anchoring of some research in teacher education and feelings of tension between teaching practices and the value of research. In conclusion, teacher education would seem to be developing into a cluster of tasks, challenges, expectations, and skills. This indicates that teaching and research are not the only missions and cannot be taken for granted in light of how teachers struggle to define their professional knowledge and value with respect to increasingly strong competitive demands for research performance.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956, et al.
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Arbetsmarknad, utbildningsval och möjligheter på landsbygden. Den lokala kontextens relationer till metrocentrisk skolpolitik
- 2021
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In: Utbildning och Demokrati. - : Orebro University. - 1102-6472. ; 30:3, s. 57-70
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Two tendencies in research and policy on youth and education are firstly a general focus on urban contexts and their differences, and secondly a presentation of the non-urban as uniform. Based on a research project on rural young people and their education, we draw attention to these tendencies as problematic, before then discussing some similarities and differences between young people’s lives and education in different rural contexts. The variation in education materialisation and experience is significant between places outside cities as educational and career choices do not follow the same lines everywhere but are affected by spatial features connected to labour markets (economic production factors) and population flows (culture and demography) within societies, regions, ecology and geology, nations and also globally (environmental factors).
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-
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Citizenship (and) Inequality. : Ethnographic Research on Education and the Making and Remaking of Class Power and Privilege
- 2020
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In: The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319679051 ; , s. 1-14
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter is based on a meta-ethnographic investigation. Its main theme is that the processes of selection that operate in schools and education systems in Western countries, taking Sweden as an example, are claimed to be just and meritocratic but are instead fundamentally unjust and ineffective systems that reproduce rather than challenge existing structural inequalities. Socio-economic restrictions and the reproduction of upper-class cultural capital and ideology as official school knowledge play key roles, but it is also concluded that education and social equality, justice, and fair citizenship possibilities for all in capitalist societies have never stretched further than wringing out minor concessions from class society whilst leaving the reproduction and absolution of the class system and inequalities based on class and distinctions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and physical and mental differences intact.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956, et al.
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Community and the education market: A cross-national comparative analysis of ethnographies of education inclusion and involvement in rural schools in Spain and Sweden
- 2020
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In: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 77, s. 199-207
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present article uses 25 ethnographic publications as data for a cross-national meta-ethnographic analysis of school development in rural communities. The publications come from research in four research projects in two countries in the past decade that were ethnographically exploring different challenges in schools in rural areas in relation to changes in State regulation from bureaucratic and professional control to market governance. Different schools in different types of rural area with different types of pedagogical and leadership challenges have been identified. Two different types of school; communitas schools and magnet schools; have emerged from the investigation as two common, different and analytically important ways of responding to market pressures. Parental co-operation and community involvement characterizes the former whilst finding ways to competitively expand and exploit resources to refine and expand recruitment characterize the other. They are both contextual developments from market governance but the latter is also recognized as a default position for school development in market conditions. Both are described as adding value for or to rural communities but in very different ways. These different ways are presented and discussed in the article and based on this discussion, the development of markets in education is described as potentially very problematic in some rural areas. Schools with greater access to resources are benefitted at the expense of other schools in ways that undermine fundamentally important rural community values.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956, et al.
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Critical Ethnographies of Education and for Social and Educational Transformation: A Meta-Ethnography
- 2021
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In: Qualitative Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1077-8004 .- 1552-7565. ; 27:6, s. 677-688
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In a 2016 special issue on the relationships between ethnography of education and social, economic, and material precarity, Geoff Bright and John Smyth were critical of ethnographic researchers, for concentrating on discourses and discourse production only, rather than on material conditions to develop activism and processes of transformation against oppression. Instead of only identifying and critiquing precarity, and deconstructing taken-for-granted ideas to give voice to ingrained forms of oppression and marginalization, critical ethnography they wrote, should really be about changing, not only describing and analyzing, oppressive conditions. In the present article, we attempt to identify and explore cases where researchers have overcome the reluctance toward activism and transformation. Using empirical examples we will try to illustrate what characterized these efforts and what seemed to support their success.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-
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Engineering comments in doctoral student appointments: biased fabrications and revolving door governance practices in STEM subjects seen from gender equity and academic justice perspectives
- 2024
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In: Ethnography and Education. - 1745-7823 .- 1745-7831. ; 19:1, s. 73-95
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article derives from ongoing higher education governance research in Sweden using a mix of ethnographic methodologies and data to explore and analyse patterns of gender and class inequality and injustice. The article has very specific data comprising two STEM doctoral appointment procedures together and uses a particular methodology called Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA). It raises questions relating to potential discrimination and injustice in the appointment procedure, including pure fabrication related to applicants’ competences and symbolic violence. Such violations are not uncommon in STEM, particularly toward women according to previous research, both within the ongoing project and by other researchers. Internal governance structures and procedures should anticipate and combat these tendencies. The article indicates that this did not happen in relation to the investigated appointment processes.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-, et al.
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Introduction to the symposium theme, aims and content
- 2020
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In: Research Symposium: The development of ethnography in educational research in the Nordic countries: Thinkingforward and looking back.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ethnographic approaches developed gradually during the 1980ies and 1990ies from several sources. The general emergence of a strong turn towards qualitative research had opened this opportunity and the establishment of ethnography has been described in a text from the early 2000ies as stepwise, ending with a number of pre-conferences to NERA’s yearly congress, starting 1998 (Larsson, 2006). The symposium has been developed looking forward from this history to the future of ethnography of education in the Nordic region. It has been developed through cooperation across two networks: “Gender and Education” and “Justice through Education”. Its focus is on ethnographic methodologies and their development in education research in the Nordic countries in recent decades, with a particular focus on matters of research for justice through education and education equality.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-
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Leadership praxis and the logic of capital: Accumulated labour and the exploitation of teaching in teaching intensive fields by academic leaders as agents of academic capitalism
- 2021
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In: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. - : University of Boras, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. - 2003-3605. ; 3:1, s. 49-77
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Marx identified exploitation as involving asymmetric relationships between individuals or groups who hold different relative positions within the nexus of cultural, political, economic and social power and advantage. Based on a synthesis of critical ethnographic research,the present article provides an analysis of exploitation in an unexpected domain, that of Swedish higher education. Its focus is on one specific part of the higher education field, that of local trust-based leadership and its management of the Swedish government block grant for research, at three higher education institutions. Using mainly auto-and meta-ethnographic methods, and looking specifically at data and analyses related to the enactment of recent higher education governance and finance acts, the article uncovers a structure of decision-making that undergirds an exploitation of accumulated labor from teaching intensive fields, through a form of academic capitalism that is adding to the un-evening of the academic field. There are seriously negative effects on teaching intensive fields like teacher education. These fields now struggle to maintain adequate scientific research connections and career opportunities for research-qualified staff whilst seeded fields have difficulty finding qualified staff toteach undergraduate courses and programs. The patterns of extraction and redistribution have clear links to the social-class and gender hierarchies of higher education and society in material history and may be an illustration of class and gender injustice.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956
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Maybe one in a hundred or one in a thousand in the neoliberal, new-managerial university! Aesthetics of experience and the question of transgressive critical thinking
- 2020
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In: Ethnography and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-7823 .- 1745-7831. ; 15:3, s. 363-376
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Trangression is an act of challenging boundaries that separate apparently distinct oppositional categories objects. Examples are categories such as such as civilised/primitive, male/female, master/servant, Lordship/bondage. The article deals with such transgressions related to the evolution of class consciousness transgressive critical thinking. It is said to be particularly important and at risk in higher education today, as performativity reforms have closed the spaces for transgressive reflexivity, making it difficult for students to make sense of the possibilities and costs for the self that higher education can create. However, although the now professionally managed entrepreneurial university might appear to form a difficult space for developing critical thinking, critique is also a basis for the expansion of capitalism in the university, and through transferability this can create spaces for critical reflection.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956, et al.
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Myten om en skola för alla
- 2020
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In: Perspektiv på skolans problem. Vad säger forskningen? A. Fejes & M. Dahlstedt (red.). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144133898 ; , s. 205-218
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