Search for dissertations about: "change processes in school"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 73 swedish dissertations containing the words change processes in school.

2. 1. Designing for Transformational Change in School : Digitalizing the Digitized

   Author : Annika Agélii Genlott; Åke Grönlund; Annika Andersson; Olga Viberg; Ulf Melin; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Design Science Research; Digitalization; Information Systems artifact; School organization; School leadership;

   Abstract : Digital technologies have gained a prominent role in education and schools, but research concerning how digital technologies can create better conditions for improved teaching and enhanced learning for students is scarce and inconclusive. Successful use of digital technologies requires a complex combination of interacting factors, including integrating technology and pedagogy as well as organizing and leading a structured transformation process. READ MORE

4. 2. Turning processes : the change of representations in consultee-centered case consultation

   Author : Ingrid Hylander; Kjell Granström; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Professionai consultation. Tuming points. Educational psychology. Grounded theory. Focus groups; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : This thesis explores sudden changes in consultee-centered case consultation. Grounded theory has been used as research method and the description and interpretation of the method is an integrated part of the thesis. READ MORE

5. 3. Dynamics in meetings : on leadership and followership in ordinary meetings in different organizations

   Author : Kjell Granström; Karin Aronsson-Ottosson; Per Linell; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : group processes; leadership; followership; decision-making; the school as an organization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : A method for analyzing interactional dynamics in regular meetings and sessions was developed on the basis of Bion's (1961) basic-assumption model. This model postulates that members in groups frequently take part in collective defence activities which prevent the group from carrying out the tasks assigned to them. READ MORE

6. 4. Trajectories of Learning : Embodied Interaction in Change

   Author : Helen Melander; Fritjof Sahlström; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Lorenza Mondada; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; learning; interaction; situated cognition; embodiment; conversation analysis; Education; Pedagogik; Pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This dissertation is about learning as changing understanding in social and situated activities. It takes part in the development of a reconceptualization of learning initiated within participationist perspectives. Multiparty interaction in situated activities is a primordial site for the exploration of human action and cognition. READ MORE

7. 5. Inequality in Educational Outcomes : How Aspirations, Performance, and Choice Shape School Careers in Sweden

   Author : Frida Rudolphi; Jan O. Jonsson; Michael Gähler; Anthony Heath; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; achievement; aspirations; attainment; educational choice; ethnic inequality; performance; social origin; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This thesis examines different aspects of educational inequalities, drawing on the notion that inequality in educational attainment depends on two separate mechanisms: that children from advantaged social backgrounds perform better at school (primary effects) and tend more than others to choose to continue in education given performance (secondary effects). Study I shows that the long-term decrease in social class inequality in the transition from compulsory to academic upper secondary education since the middle of the mid-20th century up to the late 1990s, seems to be related to both declining primary and secondary effects. READ MORE