Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande: Recent submissions
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Knowledge at play. Studies of games as members’ matters
(2013-05-08)On a general level, this thesis seeks some answers to the broad question of what one can learn from digital games. With an analytical approach informed by ethnomethodology, the main thrust of the work is an exploration ... -
Yngre elevers lärande om naturen En studie av kommunikation om modeller i institutionella kontexter
(2013-04-15)Abstract The aim of the study is to draw attention to and examine how young students (approximately 5-13 years) are involved in communication about nature, what approaches to nature are mediated in the social practices ... -
Language learning and technology. Student activities in web-based environments
(2013-04-03)The impact of the web as a communicative arena, based on the use of social software, has changed conditions for communication on all levels of society; privately, at work and in education. This has opened up for multicultural ... -
Contextualizing inquiry. Negotiations of tasks, tools and actions in an upper secondary classroom.
(2012-11-27)The challenges for education in contemporary society are complex. The emergence of the post-industrial society – an information- or knowledge society, where the development of digital technologies are pivotal – have altered ... -
Variation och invarians i Maria Montessoris sinnestränande materiel
(2012-10-20)The purpose of this study was to analyse the Montessori pedagogy with the objective to theoretically describe and explain the Montessori pedagogical method. The aim has been to find an answer to what still makes the ... -
Flerspråkiga barn i förskolan: Villkor för deltagande och lärande
(2012-08-17)The aim of this research was to study the learning conditions in preschool that support young multilingual children’s language and communicative development, and their participation in activities. A sociocultural theoretical ... -
Spaces for Solidarity and Individualism in Educational Contexts
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Samtal om barn och pedagogisk dokumentation som bedömningspraktik i förskolan - En diskursanalys
(2011-09-12)The preschool, nowadays an intergral part of the educational system, is to be found within a welfare state and a knowledge economy, within a society characterized by the idea of lifelong learning. As a conse-quence of this, ... -
Lärares tal och barns nyfikenhet: Kommunikation om naturvetenskapliga innehåll i förskolan
(2011-05-20)The aim of this thesis is to generate new knowledge about how children and teachers communicate scientific contents in preschool. The general research question is formulated as: How do the object of learning and the act ... -
Bäst i klassen? Lärare och elever i svenska och europeiska policytexter
(2011-02-04)This thesis takes its departure in the recent criticism directed to the Swedish school system and its schools, teachers and pupils, but especially the epidemic of policies produced in order to develop and improve Swedish ... -
"Opening Higher Education:" Discursive transformations of distance and higher education government
(2010-10-25)This thesis takes as its starting point the 1990s and early 2000s political arguments for a more open and flexible Swedish higher education system. At this time, the issues of accessibility and participation were also ... -
Kan Batman vara rosa? Förhandlingar om pojkighet och normalitet på en förskola
(2010-08-27)Abstract Title: Have you Ever Seen a Pink Batman? Negotiating Boyishness and Normality at a Preschool. Language: Swedish with a summary in English Keywords: Performativity, gender, masculinity, normality, pre- school, ... -
The work of critique in architectural education
(2010)The research reported here is an investigation of instruction and assessment in architectural education. The focus is on the practice of critique, an educational activity in which instructors and professional architects ...