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- Dovemark, Marianne, 1952, et al.
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Förortens skola – Möjligheternas skola?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Utbildning & Lärande. - 2001-4554. ; 9:1, s. 62-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Loss of equivalence in Swedish education has been highlighted in both research and media. Arguably, one explanation for this is related to the free choice reform which has led to competition and homogenization of schools. In combination with peer effects and teachers’ different expectations this has led to a gap between schools in the way they adapt their marketing towards specific groups of students. Some students become more desirable than others. The polarization between “winners” and “losers” has thereby increased the importance of school selection with regards to learning outcomes and future educational life chances. This article focuses on students in Ash Public, a public upper secondary school located in a stigmatized immigrant suburb. The study is based on formal interviews, field interviews and observations, and contrary to its negative reputation, the school and its pedagogical practice were generally described in positive terms by the involved school actors. Teachers mentioned motivated and ambitious students and students described a school where they felt safe and included and where collaborativ
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- Dovemark, Marianne, et al.
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Pedagogic identities for sale! Inclusion and competition in two local upper secondary school markets in Sweden
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The increasing use of ‘the private’ as a mean of delivery of public service, including several education reforms, such as decentralization, free school choice and a liberal tax-funded voucher system have paved the way for a rapid increase of upper secondary schools in Sweden. There is a strong competition between these schools. Today, half of all schools at the post 16-level are run by municipalities, while the rest is run by private owners, mainly organized as large school concerns. About 25% of all upper secondary students study at an independent school (Swedish National Agency for Education, 2012). As Bernstein stated already in 1996, the market relevance has become the key-orientating criterion for the selection of discourses. The ‘capitalisation’, which is making public schools into commodity producing enterprises (Rikowski, 2003) is now a fact. Furthermore the education market is no longer simply a matter of choice and competition, according to Ball (2004) it is a sophisticated system of goods, services, experiences and routes. In parallel with an increasing competition there is still political consensus in Sweden regarding the education’s mission of being socially compensatory and inclusive. However recent statistics and research highlight alarming results of increased segregation between municipalities, schools and between students (Swedish National Agency for Education, 2012; Östh, Andersson and Malmberg, 2012).
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- Dovemark, Marianne, 1952, et al.
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The Swedish School market, Space and School Premises.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Paper presented at Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, sept 15-17 Oxford..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the last decades Sweden has undergone a remarkable change from having a highly state-regulated school system to developing one of the most liberal and deregulated systems in the world. Not least, the transformation is apparent in the education sector, where reforms such as the implementation of free school choice, a generous voucher system and publically funded free-schools have paved the way for a highly competitive school market (Erixon Arreman & Holm, 2011a, 2011b). These have often been referred to as policies for ‘edu-busi¬ness’ (Ball 2007, p. 67). The development is particularly apparent at the upper secondary school level, where a “boom” of new independent schools, so called free-schools has occurred. During the school year 2012/13, more than one fourth (26%) of all upper secondary education students attended free-schools. The role of education within society has always been important but the function of the school architecture in that process is less obvious. Cold (2002b) points out that the school building or rather school facilities is more than a school. However, according to Björklid (2005), the physical environment is scarcely regulated in the Swedish Education Act, curricula and other ordinances. The aim of this paper is to shed light on how the school architecture is redesigned to match the overall school reorganisation within the ‘boom’ of new independent schools. A comparison with the former conventional architecture is also made. In the current paper, we discuss the educational environment in terms of (i) locations, (ii) common areas such as assembly halls and canteens (iii) premises as classrooms and (iv) external recreation spaces and surroundings. The data of the paper is assembled in Bay City by means of observations and interviews at open houses and upper secondary fairs. In addition text-analysis were carried out by reading upper secondary schools’ different marketing materials with focus on their descriptions of their premises. Our first tentative findings show a wide difference between the locations and the architecture among the schools. A conspicuous pattern is that a large number of independent schools use premises that are not built for education, such as former offices etc. The architecture allows certain kinds of pedagogical activities. The lack of access to common areas has reduced in-school opportunities for physical activity and healthful eating in favour of fast-food restaurants.
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- Erixon Arreman, Inger, et al.
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Teachers' professional work and identities.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Paper presented at EERA conference, Porto, 2-5 September, 2014..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Girousse, Amandine, et al.
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Partial Inhibition of Adipose Tissue Lipolysis Improves Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity Without Alteration of Fat Mass
- 2013
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Ingår i: PLoS Biology. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1545-7885. ; 11:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When energy is needed, white adipose tissue (WAT) provides fatty acids (FAs) for use in peripheral tissues via stimulation of fat cell lipolysis. FAs have been postulated to play a critical role in the development of obesity-induced insulin resistance, a major risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, whether and how chronic inhibition of fat mobilization from WAT modulates insulin sensitivity remains elusive. Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) participates in the breakdown of WAT triacylglycerol into FAs. HSL haploinsufficiency and treatment with a HSL inhibitor resulted in improvement of insulin tolerance without impact on body weight, fat mass, and WAT inflammation in high-fat-diet-fed mice. In vivo palmitate turnover analysis revealed that blunted lipolytic capacity is associated with diminution in FA uptake and storage in peripheral tissues of obese HSL haploinsufficient mice. The reduction in FA turnover was accompanied by an improvement of glucose metabolism with a shift in respiratory quotient, increase of glucose uptake in WAT and skeletal muscle, and enhancement of de novo lipogenesis and insulin signalling in liver. In human adipocytes, HSL gene silencing led to improved insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, resulting in increased de novo lipogenesis and activation of cognate gene expression. In clinical studies, WAT lipolytic rate was positively and negatively correlated with indexes of insulin resistance and WAT de novo lipogenesis gene expression, respectively. In obese individuals, chronic inhibition of lipolysis resulted in induction of WAT de novo lipogenesis gene expression. Thus, reduction in WAT lipolysis reshapes FA fluxes without increase of fat mass and improves glucose metabolism through cell-autonomous induction of fat cell de novo lipogenesis, which contributes to improved insulin sensitivity.
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- Ivarsson, Magnus, et al.
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Putative fossilized fungi from the lithified volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria, Spain
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Ingår i: Astrobiology. - New Rochelle, NY : Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. - 1531-1074 .- 1557-8070. ; 11:7, s. 633-650
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report the discovery of fossilized filamentous structures in samples of the lithified, volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria, which were obtained during Leg 157 of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). These filamentous structures are 2–15 μm in diameter and several hundred micrometers in length and are composed of Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Mg, Na, Ti, and C. Chitin was detected in the filamentous structures by staining with wheat germ agglutinin dye conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (WGA-FITC), which suggests that they are fossilized fungal hyphae. The further elucidation of typical filamentous fungal morphological features, such as septa, hyphal bridges, and anastomosis and their respective sizes, support this interpretation. Characteristic structures that we interpreted as fossilized spores were also observed in association with the putative hyphae. The fungal hyphae were found in pyroxene phenocrysts and in siderite pseudomorphs of a basalt breccia. The fungal colonization of the basalt clasts occurred after the brecciation but prior to the final emplacement and lithification of the sediment at 16–14 Ma. The siderite appears to have been partially dissolved by the presence of fungal hyphae, and the fungi preferentially colonized Fe-rich carbonates over Fe-poor carbonates (aragonite). Our findings indicate that fungi may be an important geobiological agent in subseafloor environments and an important component of the deep subseafloor biosphere, and that hydrothermal environments associated with volcanism can support a diverse ecosystem, including eukaryotes.
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