Search for dissertations about: "pedagogical competence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words pedagogical competence.
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1. Educational technology for visualisation in upper secondary physics education : The case of GeoGebra
Abstract : In order to contribute to our understanding of how technologies can be used to visualise physical phenomena in order to support teaching and learning of the phenomena at hand, this licentiate thesis explores the ways in which visual representations created with GeoGebra can be used in upper-secondary physics education. In addition, this thesis provides a new model that can be used to characterise students’ representational competence. READ MORE
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2. Internationalisation at home? Home and international students' integration into engineering education
Abstract : Internationalisation is a strategy for over 90 percent of universities and student mobility is a key part of that strategy. At the same time, home and international students do not tend to mix. READ MORE
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3. Digital play in preschools : understandings from educational use and professional learning
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to improve knowledge on preschool teachers’ educational use of digital play and their professional learning about it. The thesis is focused on three questions; How can preschool teacher educational use of digital play be understood? How can the professional learning context of preschool teachers using digital play for educational purposes be understood? And, How can preschool teacher knowledge needs concerning educational use of digital play be understood? The participants were preschool teachers who had started to introduce tablets and digital play in educational practice. READ MORE
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4. Pedagogical quality in preschool : an issue of perspectives
Abstract : The main aims of this thesis on the pedagogical quality in preschool are: to define and describe a pedagogical concept of quality; to explore how quality is experienced and valued from different perspectives; to find out what characterises a pedagogical environment of high quality; and to discuss how those characteristics can be used to improve the quality of preschool. The thesis comprises four studies, a meta-perspective of the results of these and a theoretical framework. READ MORE
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5. Teachers as designers : Analyses of pedagogical patterns and their use
Abstract : Recent research has claimed that learning designs can strengthen the teaching profession by acknowledging teachers’ role as designers as they use these to disseminate good teaching ideas about digital technology to colleagues in schools and universities. However, the promises attributed to learning designs are based in particular on teachers producing learning designs, rather than on analyses of them or their use. READ MORE