Search for dissertations about: "teachers meaning making"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words teachers meaning making.

2. 21. Everything has its processes, one could say - A longitudinal study following students’ ideas about transformations of matter from age 7 to 16

   Author : Lena Löfgren; Margareta Ekborg; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; longitudinal study; primary education; secondary education; science learning; transformations of matter; the particulate nature of matter; longitudinell studie; grundskola; lärande i naturvetenskap; materietransformationer; materiens partikelnatur; transformations of matter; science learning; secondary education; primary education; longitudinal study; the particulate nature of matter;

   Abstract : Denna avhandling handlar om elevers lärande och meningsskapande i naturvetenskap. Det teoretiska ramverket bygger på Human Constructivism. Detta perspektiv framhåller det unika samspel som äger rum mellan tankar, känslor och handlingar då människor skapar mening. Perspektivet betonar också språkets viktiga roll i lärandeprocesser. READ MORE

4. 22. Talking and taking positions : An encounter between action rsearch and the gendered and racialised discourses of school science

   Author : Eva Nyström; Gaby Weiner; Christina Ottander; Lyn Yates; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; action research; discourse analysis; power relations; processes of inequality; science classroom; the Swedish upper secondary school; Gender studies; Genus;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns processes of power relations in and about the science classroom. It draws on action research involving science and mathematics teachers in the Swedish upper secondary school (for students between 16 and 19 years). For the analysis, feminist post-structuralism, gender, and discourse theories (e.g. READ MORE

5. 23. Negotiating teacher professionalism : on the symbolic politics of Sweden's teacher unions

   Author : Peter Lilja; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Boundary work; Institutional theory; Policy analysis; Profession; Professionalism; Professionalization; Professional project; Teacher professionalism; Teacher unions;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically investigate and problematize the Swedish Teacher Unions’ use of the concept of professionalism within the political negotiation of how to ascribe meaning and contetnt to the idea of teacher professionalism within contemporary Swedish education debates. Departing from two recent educational reforms – the certification of teachers and the reformation of teacher education – and using theories from the sociology of professions coupled with an institutional approach to the study of organizations this study analyzes how the Teacher Unions construct professional projects in relation to each other as well as in relation to the reforms of the current Ministry of Education. READ MORE

6. 24. Assessing writers, assessing writing : A dialogical study of grade delivery in Swedish higher education

   Author : Janna Meyer-Beining; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Betygsättning; Högskoleutbildning; Återkoppling psykologi ; Didaktik; Uppsatsskrivning; Education; Higher; Feedback Psychology ; Grading and marking Students ; Academic writing; Teaching;

   Abstract : Assessment feedback has been discussed as an important resource for providing students with a sense of their current performance relative to institutional expectations and with the information needed to close apparent gaps. Pointing out that this involves complex sense-making processes, recent research has stressed the need to change the nature of assessment feedback from teacher telling to student/teacher/peer dialogues. READ MORE

7. 25. Interacting : Coordinating text understanding in a student theatre production

   Author : Martin Göthberg; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis; Education and Learning; Utbildning och lärande; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis;

   Abstract : The present dissertation explores student actors’ and their teachers’ coordination of text understanding in a theatre production – a two-semester process from page to stage in an upper secondary school in Sweden. With an interest in the collaborative work achieved in and through theatre education the research is realized against a background of the role of arts education and reading of literary texts in the neoliberal educational landscape that favors measurable effects of individual achievements. READ MORE