Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession by Title
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Aktör och struktur i historieundervisning. Om utveckling av elevers historiska resonerande
(2013-11-15)Historical reasoning is the organizing of information about the past in order to describe, compare, and/or explain historical phenomena. In this study I investigate the ability to reason historically in terms of agent ... -
Ansvar för matematiklärande. Effekter av undervisningsansvar i det flerspråkiga klassrummet
(2011-10-07)The aim of the thesis is to contribute to knowledge about crucial conditions for students' mathematics learning, and more specifically what role mathematics teaching plays in that process. Also taken into account is the ... -
Att urskilja grafiska aspekter av derivata – hur elevernas möjligheter påverkas av innehållets behandling i undervisningen
(2020-02-19)The aim of this thesis is to investigate in what ways students’ opportunities to discern graphical aspects of the concept of derivative can be related to the design of instruction. The thesis is based on two empirical ... -
Didactical Considerations in the Digitalized Classroom
(2020-03-24)The interest in this doctoral thesis is how information and communication technologies (ICT) impact on classroom interaction and may challenge and transform teaching and learning. A reason for considering this as a field ... -
Epistemic beliefs and conceptions of competence in education for sustainable development
(2022-01-07)Education for sustainable development (ESD) raises critical questions regarding what knowledge should be taught and what the learning outcomes should be. The aim of this thesis is to explore epistemological, ethical and ... -
Estetiska erfarenheter i naturmöten. En fenomenologisk studie av upplevelser av skog, växtlighet och undervisning
(2020-01-08)In a period of accelerated environmental change, a focus on how humans build embodied relationships with the more-than-human world is a critical arena for pedagogical work. The aim of this thesis is to elucidate people’s ... -
Evidens och existens. Evidensbaserad undervisning i ljuset av lärares erfarenheter.
(2013-05-29)During the last decade there has been a strong focus on making teaching into an evidence-based profession. The idea of evidence-based practice itself has been widely debated over the years and has been criticized, primarily ... -
Förtroendefulla relationer mellan lärare och elev
(2013-05-24)This thesis aims to explain how trustful relationships between teachers and students are expressed in the Swedish compulsory school system, and to explore what a trustful relationship implies for teacher and student. The ... -
”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 ... -
Immigrant Groups and Cognitive Tests – Validity Issues in Relation to Vocational Training
(2013-04-02)Psychologists at the Employment Service use cognitive tests to assess suitable work or training areas. The tests are standardized on a Swedish population and possible differences in cognitive constructs, prognostic properties ... -
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 ... -
”Det kan vara svårt att förklara på rader”. Perspektiv på analys och bedömning av multimodal textproduktion i årskurs 3.
(2017-11-05)Drawing and coloring have been part of young students text making as long as the writing system has been used, but with the increased use of digital tools and an enlarged focus on accountability of today there is a ... -
Kritiskt tänkande i grundskolans samhällskunskap. En fenomenografisk studie om manifesterat kritiskt tänkande i samhällskunskap hos elever i årskurs 9
(2013-11-21)Cultivating students’ critical thinking skills is recognized as a highly important educational goal in many societies in the western world, not least in Sweden. Despite this the research community has so far produced ... -
Lärares arbetsglädje : Betydelsen av emotionell närvaro i det pedagogiska arbetet
(2014-03-19)This thesis aims to explore teachers’ ‘work enjoyment’ and thereby deepening our understanding of teachers’ work and professionality. Positive emotions in teachers’ work are an underestimated and under-researched dimension ... -
Making Sense of Negative Numbers
(2011-02-10)Numbers are abstract objects that we conceptualize and make sense of through metaphors. When negative numbers appear in school mathematics, some properties of number sense related to natural numbers become contradictory. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Performativa lärarpraktiker
(2017-08-23)The preconditions for teachers’ practices in Sweden have dramatically changed during the last few decades. Since the 1990s, processes of decentralisation, marketisation and privatisation have rapidly transformed the ...