Martin Lackéus – författare

This volume distinguishes itself by taking a broad and philosophical perspective on teaching and the process of learning, rather than proposing yet another algorithmic approach to learning. It is intended for teaching faculty and academic support staff who want to deeply reflect on and continuously develop teaching designs that combine knowledge and action. Motivated by a concern for the societal issues and global challenges facing us, we recognize that the current generation of students will need to be agentic citizens able to act to become authentic change-makers. If students are to become critically reflective active citizens, equipped for life in its broadest sense, then teaching must engage them with disciplinary knowledge and link this to authentic practices to make learning meaningful.Meaningful learning is defined as linking knowledge-intensive processes of learning to the creation of value for others outside the university. This embodies students’ cognitive heads, conative hands, and affective hearts allowing them to become authentic change-makers. It makes the learning process holistic, embedded in the individual, and socially connected, without losing the connection to knowledge content. When a meaning-oriented format supports content and when content is enhanced through an outward-oriented format, students’ cognitive, affective, and conative domains are activated in a powerful interplay to trigger deep feelings of meaningfulness. A meaningful learning approach ensures that students become participative learners, able to reflect on their own values and combine disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with others to tackle some of today’s most pressing societal challenges.

This volume distinguishes itself by taking a broad and philosophical perspective on teaching and the process of learning, rather than proposing yet another algorithmic approach to learning. It is intended for teaching faculty and academic support staff who want to deeply reflect on and continuously develop teaching designs that combine knowledge and action. Motivated by a concern for the societal issues and global challenges facing us, we recognize that the current generation of students will need to be agentic citizens able to act to become authentic change-makers. If students are to become critically reflective active citizens, equipped for life in its broadest sense, then teaching must engage them with disciplinary knowledge and link this to authentic practices to make learning meaningful.Meaningful learning is defined as linking knowledge-intensive processes of learning to the creation of value for others outside the university. This embodies students’ cognitive heads, conative hands, and affective hearts allowing them to become authentic change-makers. It makes the learning process holistic, embedded in the individual, and socially connected, without losing the connection to knowledge content. When a meaning-oriented format supports content and when content is enhanced through an outward-oriented format, students’ cognitive, affective, and conative domains are activated in a powerful interplay to trigger deep feelings of meaningfulness. A meaningful learning approach ensures that students become participative learners, able to reflect on their own values and combine disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with others to tackle some of today’s most pressing societal challenges.

Tänk dig läraren som en av de främsta producenterna av utbildningsforskning. Det är en tilltalande tanke. Men forskning är svårt, och de metoder som finns att tillgå är många gånger väldigt komplicerade och därmed besvärliga att tillämpa. I andra fall är metoderna så förenklade att det är tveksamt om resultatet kan kallas forskning.För att överbrygga utmaningar med lärares egna vetenskapande har forskare på Chalmers tagit fram en konkret metod – värdeskapande vetenskapande – som beskrivs i den här boken. Metoden är anpassad för att kunna användas av lärare inom ramen för skolors och förskolors kollegiala utvecklingsarbete, utan extern forskares hjälp. Kvaliteten i tillvägagångssätten, inte minst i det viktiga analysarbetet, erhålls i stället via väl beskrivna procedurer, formulär och andra former av underlag. Dessutom förklarar författaren, på ett tillgängligt sätt, det vetenskapliga arbetets grund och begrepp samt ger en översikt över olika metoder.Ett trettiotal olika skolhuvudmän runt om i Sverige har under åtta års tid deltagit i det forskningsprogram som ligger till grund för den här boken och dess metod. Boken riktar sig främst till lärare och olika typer av lärledare i förskola och skola. Även skolledare, specialpedagoger, kvalitetschefer och skolchefer kan ha stor nytta av de insikter som boken erbjuder.