Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies / Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession(2010-): Recent submissions
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Interest and Engagement: Perspectives on Mathematics in the Classroom
(2017-03-31)The aim of this research project is to illuminate interest manifested as student engagement in mathematics in years 6-9. In particular, the studies capture how engagement is recognised by teachers and researchers and what ... -
Svenskämnets estetiska dimensioner – i klassrum, kursplaner och lärares uppfattningar.
(2017-03-10)This thesis explores aesthetic dimensions in the school subject Swedish in classroom, curricula and teachers’ perceptions. In focus is the question about young pupils’ (7 – 9 years old) possibilities to use different ... -
Vad är religionslärarkunskap? En diskursanalys av trepartssamtal i lärarutbildningen
(2016-12-09)From an overall perspective, the aim of this thesis is to investigate teachers’ knowledge in relation to Swedish teacher education and to the school subject religious education (RE), by exploring constructions of essential ... -
Gymnasieelevers tolkningar avseende matematiska representationer av rätlinjig rörelse-från händelse till process
(2016)The ability to interpret mathematical concepts is a prime concern in science in general and physics in particular. The aim of this licentiate thesis is to investigate and analyze upper secondary school students’ interpretation ... -
”I svenska två vågar jag prata mer och så”. En didaktisk studie om skolämnet svenska som andraspråk
(2015-09-23)This thesis takes its point of departure in recent criticism directed at the Swedish school system, especially regarding the fact that students with a foreign background do not get the same opportunities or attain the same ... -
Encountering algebraic letters, expressions and equations: A study of small group discussions in a Grade 6 classroom
(2015)Introductory algebra has a pivotal role for pupils’ continued learning in algebra. The aim of this licentiate thesis is to contribute to knowledge about how pupils appropriate introductory algebra and the kind of challenges ... -
Möjligheter i kollegiala samtal om NO-undervisning och bedömning
(2014)Syftet med studien är att belysa NO-lärares kollegiala samtal om bedömning i ett sammanhang av undervisning och lärande i naturvetenskap, som arena för professionsutveckling. Lärarens kompetens är en av de viktigaste ... -
Naturvetenskap möter etik: En klassrumsstudie av elevers diskussioner om samhällsfrågor relaterade till bioteknik
(2015-05-08)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to increased understanding of students’ learning from discussing different socio-scientific issues in connection to biotechnology. In the international literature there is a call ... -
Reasoning in a Science Classroom
(2015-03-26)In research on science education, there is a need to further understand the relation between longer and shorter processes of teaching and learning in the classroom. With a theoretical framework based on dialogical theories ... -
Epistemic beliefs among upper-secondary students in education for sustainable development
(2014)This research project explores an educational context through two approaches. The first analyses the interpretability and role of the concept of sustainable development according to the writings of four syllabuses in the ... -
Developing strategic competence in oral interaction in English as a foreign language – A classroom study
(2014)The teaching and learning of English as a foreign language can be studied by analysing a large amount of results (from the national tests, for example) over a long period of time. It can also be studied from the teacher's ... -
Lärande i rörelse - Utveckling av kroppslig förmåga ur ett icke dualistiskt perspektiv
(2014)Uppsatsens ambition är att genom en learning study av undervisningsmomentet kroppshållning vid löpning påvisa hur ett innehåll i skolämnet idrott och hälsa kan behandlas på ett icke dualistiskt sätt. Syftet är därmed att ... -
Pedagogisk takt i betygssamtal
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2014-12-18)This thesis aims to explore how grades are explained and understood in grade conferences between teachers and students in Swedish upper secondary school. The empirical material is based on 149 video-recorded conferences ... -
Variationens betydelse för elevernas lärande. Relationen mellan en funktions graf och grafen till funktionens derivata
(2014)Begreppet derivata är mångfacetterat och innebörden kan beskrivas och tolkas i flera olika representationsformer. Elever har emellertid ofta en snäv uppfattning av begreppet och för många är derivata synonymt med algebraiska ... -
What is going on out there? - What does it mean for children's experiences when the kindergarten is moving their everyday activities into the nature - landscapes and its places
(2014-11-21)How we understand the practice of learning in nature-landscapes and places is relevant to contemporary environmental arenas, both in the context of international agendas and as an agenda for Nordic kindergartens where ... -
Vaghet och vanmakt – 20 år med kunskapskrav i den svenska skolan.
(2014-10-30)This thesis poses three questions about the Swedish national knowledge requirements, which have been in place in Swedish schools since 1994: How do teachers understand them? How do members of parliament understand ... -
Skrivundervisning i gymnasieskolan. Svenskämnets roll i den sociala reproduktionen.
(2014-10-23)Abstract Title: Teaching writing in upper secondary school. The role of the Swedish subject in social reproduction. Author: Pernilla Andersson Varga Language: Swedish with an English summary ISBN: 978-91-7346-803-9 ... -
Hur kan dubbelt så långt bli fyra gånger större?
(2014)Previous research has shown that a large majority of 12- to 16-year old students have a tendency to improperly apply the linear model when solving non-linear problems about the relation between lengths and area of enlarged ... -
Proportionella samband - Innehållets behandling och elevernas lärande.
(2014)Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka på vilka sätt elever utvecklar sin förmåga att resonera proportionellt. Elevers förändrade förståelse för proportionella samband undersöks i relation till innehållets behandling ... -
Möte med multimodalt material. Vilken roll spelar dyslexi för uppfattandet av text och bild?
(2014-05-28)The aim of the thesis is to describe how two different groups of respondents, with and without dyslexia, experience and reproduce information from text and images compared with text only, and whether and in what way ...