Search for dissertations about: "school-based practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words school-based practice.

  1. 1. The Everyday Practice of School Bullying : Children's participation in peer group activities and school-based anti-bullying initiatives

    Author : Johanna Svahn; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Marie Karlsson; Susan Danby; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; School bullying; children?s participation; peer group interaction; classroom interaction; interactional practices; morality-in-interaction; ethnography; ethnomethodology;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the everyday practice of school bullying by examining children's participation in peer group activities as well as in school-based anti-bullying activities within an educational setting. The empirical material is drawn from a long-term (1 year) ethnographic study conducted among preadolescent children in a 5th grade class in a Swedish elementary school. READ MORE

  2. 2. Occupational performance in school settings : evaluation and intervention using the school AMPS

    Author : Michaela Munkholm; Anne G. Fisher; Britta Löfgren; Curt Hagquist; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Occupational therapy; Assessment; Rasch measurement; Children; schoolwork performance; Differential item functioning; Differential test funktioning; Outcomes; Efficacy of intervention; school-based practice; instrument development; Occupational therapy; Arbetsterapi; Occupational therapy; arbetsterapi;

    Abstract : Background: This thesis is was designed to evaluate aspects of reliability and validity of the School Version of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (School AMPS) (Fisher, Bryze, Hume, & Griswold, 2007), an observation-based evaluation of quality of occupational performance when children perform schoolwork tasks in school settings. The long term goal was to contribute to knowledge about children at risk or with mild disabilities who experience difficulties with occupational performance in school settings, and describe how the School AMPS can be used when a true top−down process of planning and implementing school-based occupational therapy services is implemented in a Swedish context. READ MORE

  3. 3. Outcome evaluation of school-based alcohol prevention : a European multi-centric trial (EU-Dap study)

    Author : Maria Paola Caria; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Curricula aiming at preventing substance use are widespread in European schools, without formal evaluation of their effectiveness. Promising programmes based on the Comprehensive Social Influence (CSI) model have never been evaluated in Europe. READ MORE

  4. 4. Information and Communication Technology in Teacher Education : Thinking and learning in computer‐supported social practice

    Author : Evode Mukama; Sven Andersson; Gunilla Jedeskog; Ingrid Andersson; Roger Säljö; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Collaborative learning; critical reflection; ICT; learning conditions; mediating tool; multilingual setting; Rwanda; teacher education; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate how new knowledge can be developed in computer-supported social practice. Participants were selected from newly qualified secondary school teachers and student teachers at a higher education institution in Rwanda. READ MORE

  5. 5. Becoming-place : (Re)conceptualising friluftsliv in the Swedish physical education and health curriculum

    Author : Jonas Mikaels; Suzanne Lundvalll; Erik Backman; Chris Loynes; Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; relational materialism; place; curriculum; friluftsliv; Deleuze; Samhällsvetenskap Humaniora; Social Sciences Humanities;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to critically examine taken for granted assumptions underpinning friluftsliv and outdoor education as a learning area in the curriculum, and to explore the educational potential of a place-responsive pedagogy. A growing body of critical research in outdoor studies suggest that there has been a discursive shift away from an activity-based personal and social development discourse, in favour of more critical awareness in outdoor education research. READ MORE