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SENCOs’ agency in Swedish upper secondary schools: A lifeworld phenomenological study of how Special Educational Needs Coordinators navigate and manage their everyday worklife.
Av Jonas Udd
Häftad, 2025
249 kr
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The research interest in this thesis concerns what it means to be and to act as a SENCO. More specifically, the thesis explores nine SENCOs’ lived experiences of agency. To study this, focus has been directed towards existential aspects of their everyday worklife, such as intersubjectivity, …
Val - omröstning - styrning : en etnografisk studie om intentioner med, villkor för och utfall av barns inflytande i förskolan
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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This thesis takes its point of departure in an interest in exploring how children’s participation is expressed in policy texts as well as in preschool practice. Participation can be viewed as a discourse of considerable importance both in Swedish society and its preschools. The aim of this study is …
Lärares lärande i gränslandet mellan skolans och vetenskapens praktiker : Aktionsforskning som socialt lärande
Häftad, 2024
262 kr
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The study aims at deepening the knowledge about how teachers learn as they collaborate to improve their teaching practices through action research. The research questions are as follows: How does teachers’ professional learning unfold in school practice as they engage in improving their teaching …
Vad möjliggör och begränsar en hållbar elitfriidrott? : aktionsforskning i elitidrottspraktiker inom Göteborgs friidrottsförbund
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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In athletics, there are few strategies for detecting and managing ill health and poor well-being. New innovative collaborations are needed for coaches to meet the challenge of promoting health and creating well-being among athletes while developing top performers. This research explores the …
Academic self-concept : formation, development, and long-term outcomes
Av Thea Klapp
Häftad, 2026
262 kr
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This thesis investigates academic self-concept, defined as students’ perceptions of their academic ability. Academic self-concept is an important construct in educational psychology, both as an outcome of students’ academic experiences and as a predictor of later educational and life outcomes. …
Didactical considerations in the digitalized classroom
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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The interest in this doctoral thesis is how information and communication technologies (ICT) impact on classroom interaction and may challenge and transform teaching and learning. A reason for considering this as a field of investigation is grounded in the fact that in Sweden, digital tools and …
Learning to argue in primary school : a sociocultural study of group discussions with argumentative tasks
Häftad, 2024
262 kr
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The learning and development of argumentation as a social practice is considered to be fundamental for living in democratic societies. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the growing literature on children’s argumentation, specifically in group discussions with argumentative tasks in the …
Play-Responsive Teaching : Navigating Semiotic Repertoires and Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Education and Care
Häftad, 2025
262 kr
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This thesis focuses on teaching in ECEC and how it can be responsive to bi-/multilingual children’s semiotic repertoires and support their participation in activities involving digital technologies. It is grounded in PRECEC theory and draws on the literature and principles of design-based research. …
Att urskilja grafiska aspekter av derivata : hur elevernas möjligheter påverkas av innehållets behandling i undervisningen
Av Ulf Ryberg
Häftad, 2020
269 kr
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The aim of this thesis is to investigate in what ways students’ opportunities to discern graphical aspects of the concept of derivative can be related to the design of instruction. The thesis is based on two empirical studies that together included 144 Swedish upper-secondary students who were …
Epistemic beliefs and conceptions of competence in education for sustainable development
Av Marie Grice
Häftad, 2022
269 kr
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Education for sustainable development (ESD) raises critical questions regarding what knowledge should be taught and what the learning outcomes should be. The aim of this thesis is to explore epistemological, ethical and critical dimensions of ESD. There are two empirical sites. One is a …
Interaktionsmönster, social anpassning och emotioner i förskolan - en mikrosociologisk studie av interaktion mellan förskollärare och barn i målorienterade aktiviter
Häftad, 2023
262 kr
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Det övergripande syftet i denna avhandling är att, med stöd av interaktionsteorier och ett mikrosociologiskt perspektiv, bidra med kunskap om hur interaktionsmönster, social anpassning och emotioner framträder i interaktionen mellan förskollärare och barn i målorienterade dokumentationsaktiviteter …
Estetiska erfarenheter i naturmöten : en fenomenologisk studie av upplevelser av skog, växlighet och undervisning
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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In a period of accelerated environmental change, a focus on how humans build embodied relationships with the more-than-human world is a critical arena for pedagogical work. The aim of this thesis is to elucidate people’s lived experiences of being in the forest. The research is directed at …
The professional preschool teacher under conditions of change : compentence and intentions in pedagogical practices
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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This thesis explores the relationship between preschool teachers’ professional competence and their pedagogical practices. Specifically, preschool teachers’ considerations on two pedagogical practices are studied: (i) organizing children into subgroups and (ii) working with curriculum content …
Teachers meeting the challenges of the Swedish school system : agents within boundaries
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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There are many factors that may contribute to explaining variation in teacher quality, which is the key to the schools’ success. These factors include not only teacher characteristics, but also conditions of the teachers’ work. This dissertation investigates the relationship between the aspects of …
Reconfiguring environmental sustainability in early childhood education : a post-anthropocentric approach
Häftad, 2020
269 kr
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The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it explores how the notion of sustainability is conceptualized within early childhood education discourses and how it is manifested in early childhood curricula. Second, the dissertation examines post-anthropocentric possibilities of …
The concept concept in mathematics education : a concept analysis
Av Lotta Wedman
Häftad, 2020
269 kr
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The notion concept is used in different ways within the field of mathematics education. The aim of this study is to carry out a concept analysis of the notion concept, within some frequently used frameworks describing conceptual understanding. Building on a philosophical literature review resulting …
Samtal om undervisning i naturvetenskap : ämnesdidaktisk kollegial utveckling i lärarutbildning och lärarprofession
Häftad, 2020
269 kr
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The overall aim in this thesis is to explore professional conversations about science teaching experiences, both in an educational setting with student teachers, and in a local professional development project with a science teacher team, regarding possibilities for developing professional …
Barbiebröllop och homohundar : barn och barndomar i relation till queerhet och (hetero)normativa livslinjer
Av Lena Sotevik
Häftad, 2021
249 kr
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This dissertation investigates relations between sexualities, children and childhoods by examining the following questions: How are heteronormativity and normative life courses repeated, negotiated and challenged by children? How are norms of age, children and childhood given significance in …
Att vara och inte vara : elevpositioner(ingar) i spänningsfältet mellan svenska och svenska som andraspråk
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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The present thesis addresses the division and distinction between the two Swedish subjects Swedish and Swedish as a second language, which result in separation and the categorization of some students as Swedish as a second language students. The overall aim of the study is to examine how Swedish as …
Meningsskapande samtal : en studie om barns meningsskapande med fokus på processer och innehåll relaterat till förskolans praktik
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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This thesis aims to contribute to the knowledge of children’s meaning-making by focusing on processes and content in preschool practice. Meaning-making is understood as a situated process that emerges in the mutual interplay of a child’s previous and current experiences and the preschool practice …
Samtal under lärarlagsmöten : diskursorienteringar i den professionella praktiken
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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Teacher team meetings are potential arenas for professional communication, but such meetings take many different forms and cannot automatically be viewed as forums for constructive communication. The aim of this study is therefore to contribute with increased knowledge about the communication …
Stability and change : policy, options and choice in Swedish upper secondary education
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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The key role Swedish upper secondary education plays in differentiating between higher education and labour market sectors has been discussed from an equality perspective over the last 60 years. Despite political incentives to reduce social biases students’ programme choices, research shows a …
Den synliggjorda vokabulären och praktiken : gymnasieelevers akademiska skrivande på svenska
Häftad, 2021
277 kr
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The thesis includes three studies and a kappa and it has a twofold focus; the first is on vocabulary, as the relevance of vocabulary skills is increasingly important, not least for writing in academic contexts. The second focus is on the language of instruction. Studies 1 and 2 investigate …
Exploring socioeconomic inequality in educational opportunity and outcomes in Sweden and beyond
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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This doctoral thesis aims to explore Sweden’s achievement gap in international assessment and how this may have developed in the context of a network of educational inequalities. Theoretically grounded in the Model of Potential Educational Experiences (Schmidt, Raizen, Britton, Bianchi, & Wolfe, …
Värsta bästa skolan : om unga i förorten och segregation i skolan
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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This thesis addresses education and schooling for youth in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Gothenburg, Sweden. Over the last two decades or so we have seen an increasing difference in students’ performance and background between schools in Sweden. Schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the …
Seeing the parts, understanding the whole : a technology education perspective on teaching and learning in processes of analysing and designing programmed technological solutions
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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Analysing and designing Programmed Technological Solutions (PTS) has been introduced as a part of technology education in an effort to bring elements of programming into the curriculum for compulsory school, in order to develop pupils’ understanding of how PTS work and are controlled by …
Som att hålla tiden i sin hand : didaktiskt perspektiv på muntligt berättande
Häftad, 2022
262 kr
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Storytelling is deeply interwoven with the act of teaching and learning. Teachers tell stories and anecdotes within their everyday teaching practice. Previous research on teachers’ storytelling in the interdisciplinary field of educational science has focused mainly on language development, …
Linking recent and older IEA studies on mathematics and science
Häftad, 2022
269 kr
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The purpose of this thesis was to develop procedures that allow researchers to make reasonable comparisons of grade-eight mathematics and science achievement and motivation scales over a long time period, despite changes to the instruments, populations, and procedures between administrations. The …
Everyday language practices and the interplay of ideologies, investment and Identities : language use and dispositions among young adolescents in multilingual urban settings in Sweden
Häftad, 2022
277 kr
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This thesis explores the out-of-school language use of young adolescents in contemporary multilingual urban neighborhoods, located in the three largest cities in Sweden. More specifically, the thesis explores the potential interplay of out-of-school language use, language ideologies, investment in …
Children retelling stories : responding, remembering and reshaping
Av Agneta Pihl
Häftad, 2022
336 kr
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Oral storytelling is a prevalent cultural practice for sense-making. Through stories, people get to know themselves, others, and the world around them. Children are introduced to this practice at home and in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The present research concerns oral retelling in …
